schools that will accept/honor nationally accredited degrees/classes

I know in the past there have been posts from those looking for schools that will accept degrees or credits from NA schools. I happen to know that Grand Canyon University, Ashford University, Kaplan University, Southern New Hampshire University, and American Public University will all accept them (this is current as of yesterday 6/24/2014).

The only reason I know this is because a good friend of mine has quite a few credits from a nationally accredited school, and she and I were calling around to see where she could go that would accept them (she wants to finish her undergrad at a RA school because the masters she wants is at a school that only accepts RA degrees and credits).

Of course, all credits have to be evaluated to make sure the courses line up with what's offered, but they will not be rejected simply because they are NA. I thought I would put this out there for anyone still looking. Also, if anyone has any others they know about, feel free to post them so we can have a good list going.

 

I was actually pleased to see that several from Pennsylvania's state university system participate in HETA. I don't need this for myself but I do take interest in some of the nationally accredited schools, both distance learning, and B & M. My husband works at a B & M nationally accredited technical school, and those credits and/or degrees are potentially acceptable for transfer at the local state college. I think it is a good thing!

 

WGU's graduate programs specifically state that they accept nationally accredited degrees in addition to regionally accredited degrees.

 

Here is what I was able to come up with when I was looking around, off the top of my head, and excluding those already mentioned.

Sam Houston State University
Lamar University
Sul Ross University
University of West Florida
University of South Dakota (provisional, I believe)
University of North Alabama
Troy State University
Western Kentucky University
Middle Tennessee State University
A.T Still University
St. Joseph's College (Maine)
Sullivan University
Capella University
American Intercontinental University
University of Phoenix
Trident University
Missouri State University (MSA program)
Jones International University
Bellevue University
Northcentral University
Florida National University
Walden University
Colorado Technical University
South University
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There's a bunch more but I can't recall all of them. There are probably several lists floating around this forum somewhere. One thing to keep in mind is that admission to Graduate School does not constitute admission into a specific program. For example, St. Joseph's College accepts NA degrees into the Graduate School, and accepts NA degrees for the MHA program, but requires RA degree for MBA program. Go figure.

 

This is an awesome list. Thanks for posting it!!

 

NA isn't a single thing in the way that RA is. In other words, there are MANY national accreditation organizations, and it may come down to which NA organization accredited their coursework.

 

Liberty University.

 

MANY? Aside from faith-based (for religious schools), there are only three National Accreditors I know of for degree-granting schools:

DETC, ACCSC and ACICS. Did I miss any?

Johann

* Institutional Accreditors - these 3 are the only non-religious ones I know. Programmatic accreditation - for nursing, business programs, etc. is different, because we're talking about the accreditation of entire schools in this thread - not specialized programs within the schools. Besides, programmatic accreditation is generally reserved for RA schools.

 

There are lots of schools that will accept NA credits. You just have to ask around. You'll be surprised by the ones that do accept them, I know I've been surprised a time or time two.

 

Up to the occupational associate's degree level only, there are also the COE and ACCET.

There are also specialized accreditors who besides granting programmatic accreditation, can also grant overall institutional accreditation to freestanding degree-granting schools in their fields. Two off the top of my head are the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools, and the National Association of Schools of Music.

 

A "time or time two"? What? LOL!

 

I (gladly) stand corrected. Thanks , Jonathan. Apologies to Jennifer.

Johann

 

Excelsior accepted one of my courses from Andrew Jackson University. At first they said "no" but after I pointed out their policy was to review course work before making a decision, they relented.

Excelsior College | Transferring Credit From Non-Regionally Accredited Schools

 

I think I mentioned this before but you might want to get your NA credits assessed by ACE (ACE CREDIT | The National Guide to College Credit for Workforce Training). ACE provides a transcript that is normally accepted by accredited schools.

 

Hey, no worries. I am just getting back to this thread and see others listed the accreditors. I still think it really depends. My husband applied to numerous colleges that were "NA friendly" and we threw a lot of time and money at that problem. I think it also depends on what you're trying to do, undergrad transfer or grad admissions, etc.

The OP already knows about APUS, but if it were me and they had a major I wanted, that would be my pick. No headaches, no maybes. NA in --> RA out.

 

Wow. I had no idea that could be done by a student. I always thought only a school could have their courses evaluated by ACE. I thought you could only get a transcript from ACE if the courses you took had already been evaluated through a connection with the school.

 

An associate's degree from DETC-accredited Catholic Distance University will qualify for transfer into a BA program at certain regionally accredited B&M Catholic schools:

 

I'm about 1 year away from a BA at Columbia Southern University and started to briefly look around at MA programs. Liberty accepts CSU's degree. Waldorf accepts CSU's degree (No doubt). UW-LaCrosse accepts CSU degrees if the faculty in the specific program agrees to it. I haven't looked beyond those three schools. Just thought I'd add my experience.

 

In the year 2000, I did the necessary preliminary research: writing to admissions departments of a great many RA schools asking, in effect, do you accept DETC degrees (for credit transfer or admission to higher degree programs) always, usually, sometimes, rarely, or never. I reported my results at the AACRAO registrars convention that year in Seattle. In a nutshell, roughly 40% said always or usually, 40% said rarely or never. That would suggest well over 1,000 RA schools that are in the "always" or "usually" category -- and that was 14 years ago. (I wish I had also asked about ACE-recognized courses.)

I am really surprised that, to the best of my knowledge, this research has not been done again. It would be so useful and, in the digital age, so easy to send a SurveyMonkey short questionnaire to all 3,000+ registrars, at little or no cost. If anyone here wants to do it, I'll be glad to help out, both in the info on how to get a free list of the registrars, and in interpretation of results.