Husson University Diploma to Degree Program.....Help Needed!

Hi all,

I wonder if you can help.

Has anyone heard of the Husson University / University of Fredericton Diploma to Degree Program?

If you have completed a two year diploma in Canada, you are eligible to apply for the DtoD program and get 90 credit hours transferred towards a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

I have checked the accreditation of Husson Univeristy and it is accredited by NEASC and IACBE.

I tried to search the school online but couldn't find enough review/experience.

Can anyone please help?

By the way, the NEASC accreditation for Husson University is to be reviewed in Spring 2013. Wonder if they will maintain their status?

 

What is it you want help with?

Husson is regionally accredited by the New England Association, so it is a recognized university in the U.S.

IACBE accreditation, while legitimate, doesn't matter.

If you're looking for people with actual experience with these schools or the program you're asking about, good luck. Tiny needle. Big haystack. Consider asking the schools to refer you to graduates (or pass your contact information on to them). Unbiased? No, but it cuts both ways, positive and negative.

Husson has been around for more than 110 years. While it became a university only in 2008, it has been awarding bachelor's degrees since the late 1950's. I suspect they'll be around for awhile. But you can certainly ask for their accreditation report.

The University of Fredericton is new, established in 2005. I'm not sure about its status. (Only because I don't claim to know what is and is not a recognized university in Canada.) It appears they are not members of the AUCC (Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, but they have authorization to operate from their provincial government. Does this equate to state authorization here in the U.S.? It seems iffy.

The Husson connection is the key anyway, since UofF doesn't offer undergraduate degrees.

 

The University of Fredericton is a private, for-profit university with degree-granting authority from the Province of New Brunswick. Canada, unlike the US, doesn't have private accreditation agencies, so provincial recognition may be the only form of official recognition that is available.

For-profit schools are uncommon in Canada, and my impression is that they do not have as much acceptance as for-profit schools do in the US. My understanding is that AUCC only admits non-profit schools (both public and private) as members, so U of F would be ineligible to join.

 

Husson is a private, non-profit university in Maine. It has only been known as "Husson University" since 2008; however, it has held regional accreditation from NEASC since 1974, under the previous name of "Husson College".

Regional accreditation has to be renewed every 10 years. Their last review was in 2003, so they are due for another review in 2013. There is nothing unusual about this; every regionally accredited school gets a check-up every 10 years.

It is rare for schools to lose regional accreditation, and there are normally lots of warning signs when this is likely to happen. In the case of Husson, there don't appear to be any obvious issues with NEASC, and so it seems likely that their regional accreditation will be renewed next year.

 

Thank you for your replies guys.

The reason why I am a bit sceptic is because when I contacted Husson University, they advised that they can only accept a two year Canadian diploma to apply it towards their Bachelor degree and not a US Associates degree. They told me that they currently don't offer this program to US students.

Another reason is because the Maine Supreme Court turned down Husson's request to have its law graduates take the Maine bar exam. Link can be found here.

I applied for the school and got accepted and will have the 90 credits transferred and will now have to take 10 courses to complete the BS degree program.

I am just trying to do my due diligence before I go any further with the process and was hoping to find someone here who got admitted through the same DtoD program.

Thanks

 

This doesn't mean anything. They can't apply credit to a program they don't have, right? If they don't offer the associate's, how can they apply credits towards it?

This is a mis-characterization. It's not that Husson's students can't sit for the Bar Exam--which is technically true but premature. It's that Husson was not approved to start a law school because it could not get ABA accreditation. The state, in turn, had no alternative form of recognition for law schools besides the ABA. No ABA, no law school, no law graduates, no sitting for the Bar. This isn't a reflection on the quality of the school's current offerings.

Again, needle in a haystack. Good luck.

 

I read that the other way Rich. They will accept a 2 year Canadian degree but not a 2 year American one towards their BA.

 

I see what you're saying: they will transfer in a Canadian diploma, but not an associate's from a US school, towards this program. And that they don't offer the program to US students.

That makes sense since they give about 90 credits for the Canadian diploma, 50% more than comprises most associate's programs.

Nice call.

 

Husson doesn't have any law graduates, because they don't have a law school.

Most states, including Maine, currently require law schools to get accreditation from the American Bar Association (ABA). However, some states (such as California and Massachusetts) have more flexible rules: they will allow law schools to operate even if they don't meet ABA standards.

Apparently Husson proposed to establish a non-ABA law school in Maine, and asked the court if they would change their rules to allow this. The court was not willing to make the change, so Husson dropped the idea.

This is not necessarily a reflection on Husson, because any university in Maine that wanted to establish a non-ABA law school would run into the same problem. If Husson was located in California or Massachusetts, where the rules are different, their request probably would have been approved.

 

That's exactly what I wanted to say and I wonder why would they transfer in 90 credits for a Canadian Diploma and not a two year US Associates Degree.

Anyway, I will register for the first course in January and see how it goes. They are 8 weeks intensive courses and they run five terms per year.

Another thing I don't understand is that I will pay tuition to The University of Fredericton and they will issue my tax forms for income tax deductions but online courses will be taken through Husson.

I will share my experience as I move forward and will let you know how it went.

 

I think I got mixed up but you are 100% right.

Thanks for your inputs.