BAC ACCREDITATION

Because you qualified it with "personally," I don't want to disagree with you, per se. But I'm not entirely sure.

I have real questions about the acceptability of such a degree, not because of the particular source--nor its operators--but because of the legal and educational arrangement under which it operates. No one who shills for it on this board seems willing to offer tangible evidence that a degree from that thing is acceptable--say, here in the US--for academic or employment purposes. We're supposed to take it at face value.

But what do we have, really? A school legally operating in a British Territory with no real university system or method for evaluating the schools it authorizes to operate. Programatic (not institutional) accreditation by an agency with obvious doubts about it (hence the short period of accreditation after a very long time as an applicant), an accreditation that does not seem to add any weight to the question. Nor does it seem to generate a required reciprocity with other schools accredited by the same agency.

Are there articulation agreements with other, accredited schools? Are there joint programs with other, accredited schools? Have degrees from this thing been evaluated as equivalent to a regionally accredited school by foreign credential evaluation services? Any of these would go a long way towards answering the question, but we haven't seen any, have we?

Getting back to your point, would having such a degree be worse than no degree at all? You posed it as a personal choice, so I'm not going to argue that. But in general, I'm not so sure. My research indicated a huge amount of ignorance about this among HR professionals--they don't know what their looking at. One of the nuances of my study was that schools with weird names were less acceptable in general, even if they were properly accredited. But the gist of the study is that people don't know and don't care. I suspect that degrees from this thing are routinely accepted for employment purposes simply because in so many situations no one checks and no one cares. Hardly an endorsement, but certainly a reality.

 

all good points, because of the comments I found this on the ACBSP program website...very interesting...easy to assume credits are accepted but the difference between program vs institutional accreditation could make all the difference...

The Difference Between Program vs. Institutional Accreditation...
ACBSP accredits business programs. ACBSP does not accredit the institution, only the business programs offered at the institution. Most businesses and universities reviewing transcripts and accepting degrees base their decisions on institutional accreditation. Program accreditation from ACBSP without institutional accreditation may not be considered sufficient when accepting degrees or credits for transfer.

For institutions located within the United States, regional accreditation of the institution is required for membership and accreditation eligibility. Not all countries have the equivalent of regional accreditation and the government may provide the authority to grant degrees. When considering business programs, students are encouraged to contact institutions they may wish to attend in the future as well as the human resource department of specific employers. Degree acceptance policies will vary by institution and employer.