Please Add Examples of Regionally Accredited All-Online Schools

You might want to check some old Bear's Guides on this one. The institution formerly known as Kaplan College was DETC at one time.

 

Oh, hmm. This 2001 DI thread! has it that "Kaplan College for Professional Studies" was accredited by the DETC, while "Kaplan College," what is now Kaplan University, was HLC/NCA. KCPS might have been entirely a non-degree-granting thing?

 

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Bears' Guide 14th edition (2001): Kaplan College was DETC and offered bachelor's degrees in criminal justice, management, and nursing as well as diploma programs in paralegal studies and nursing, plus the Concord JD. Not sure what the Center for Professional Studies was, but the CPS had its own listing at the DETC website after the rest of Kaplan went RA.

 

Webster is RA and some programs can be completed online.

 

This is true and Webster is a fine school. However, the original poster wanted examples of "all-online" schools. Webster is a bricks & mortar school that offers online programs. If we were to include those schools, we would be listing hundreds (including my own).

 

Under all-short-residency, add Future Generations Graduate School. Founded 2003; NCA HLC candidate in 2008 and accredited since 2010.

Their single degree program is an M.A. in Applied Community Change, with concentrations in Conservation or Peacebuilding. The program has two one-month residential sessions per year. These are international: currently, "Term I in India, Term II in Africa, Term III in Haiti, and Term IV plus graduation in the United States."

 

I think the American College of Education qualifies. (Oops...Dr. Pina already had this one covered. Sorry for the dup.)

 

A letter of intent was signed last week to sell the Silver Spring campus to Reid Temple AME Church and the Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County. NLC's main office is moving…

 

Wait...you forgot to ask about "state authorized". According to what I have read online and even on this forum....all online schools have to be state authorized to grant degrees in their states. Without that, it is accredited, but still worthless! Kinda strange how people on this forum were bashing schools that were just state authorized to issue degrees by calling them "diploma mills." Now if you are accredited, but not authorized in the very state you operate out of, you are the diploma mill!! I would start with authorization before I began with accreditation!

 

see post #6.

 

The College for Financial Planning might meet your criteria. Is this thread simply for discussion or are you searching for something?

 

Walden University ...

 

Not exactly. Institutions that have a "physical presence" in the state must apply for a license to do business in the state. There is still some controversy over what constitutes "physical presence" and the attempt by the U.S. Department of Education to tie Title IV funding eligibility to state authorization was denied by the courts.

The long-time discussion of unaccredited state authorized schools versus regionally accredited or nationally accredited schools, is different, but not entirely unrelated.

 

If you count some residencies as not qualified for Regionally Accredited Online Schools; then Capella University will be left out due to all Doctorate programs and some Masters require colloquia.

 

"Holy Apostles"

The one in Cromwell, CT? That's a B&M school

 

Capella and most other online doctoral programs would also be left out. "Online doctorate" typically means that all course work is online. Very few online doctoral programs have no residency whatsoever.

 

Offers courses residentially but also appears, from a quick look, to offer all their degree programs online: United States Sports Academy (SACS).

 

Western Governor's University and American Public/American Military University have my vote.