I found a professor at a university had a BSEE from the Cook's Institute. He could proceed to do MSEE/PhD at a RA university and now becomes a professor. It seems to be not so bad. Is it true?
Cook's Institute of Electronics Engineering has been in business since the 1970's, and has never been accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. It has for years been accredited by the National Association of Private, Nontraditional Schools and Colleges, a sincere-but-unrecognized accredititing agency. It is unclear if the person you mention did indeed earn a Cook's degree and subsequently earned an RA master's and doctorate. Did it happen, or are you just wondering if it could? It could, of course. This board contains many stories of people being admitted to master's programs with degrees from unaccredited schools, or without a bachelor's degree at all. But there is nothing special about the recognition power of a degree from Cook's. It is a degree from an unaccredited school. Rich Douglas
From the fairly large survey of registrars I did last year, it was clear that about 20% would routinely accept such degrees, and another 20% sometimes. Clearly NCA&T is in one of these categories.
He got MSCE/Ph.D from the Wayne State University and now an assoc. professor at NC A&T U. Could John give me the list of which colleges will accept such degree? Thanks.
Well, I'm glad to hear that some of the folks with degrees from schools like Cook's can gain admission to RA grad schools. If they survive the coursework that a technical field requires they have definitely earned their degrees. But they have to gain admission to get that chance, and 60% of the schools not accepting your degree can really limit your choices. Of the schools that would accept an unaccredited degree for admission to grad school in a technical field, does anyone know if any or some or much "bridging" coursework was required? Two of my classmates, both from RA schools, one a BA in philosophy, the other a BS in physics, had to take a lot of ECE undergrad courses to "bridge" them to grad level ECE classes. And many ECE undergrad classes at ABET accredited schools have a lab component, not do-able DL. On a personal note, I would be afraid to try to use a degree from a school from Cook's/Kennedy-Western/etc. to advance myself where I work. It just would not be seriouly accepted, if it was accepted at all. There are no people possessing such degrees at my company at all. All engineers have their degrees from RA & ABET accredited schools or their foreign equivalents.
