I.T.T. Tech Credits/Transferability

I have an Associate's Degree from I.T.T. Technical Institute in Electronics. Does anyone know of a distance learning, regionally accredited college that would accept these credits? I want to complete a Bachelors in Psychology and pursue an MSW.

 

Is ITT Tech accredited by a US Dept of Education-recognized organization?

 

ITT Tech is ACCSCT accreditted. The vast majority of regionally accreditted schools will not accept these credits.

Hworth

 

what does ACCST stand for?

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Sam C
UCI 2002

 

That would be ACICS, or Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, a GAAP professional accrediting agency for business schools, according to the accrediting information on Degree.net.

Mark A. Sykes

 

Okay, I typed too fast on this one. Many or all ITT schools are state-accredited or ACCSCT accredited as Hworth correctly said; their web pages says they are seeking national accreditation from ACICS. This may be in the same sense I am seeking a winning lottery ticket.

Mark A. Sykes

 

ACCSCT - Accrediting Commission for Career Schools/Colleges of Technology

 

since ACCSCT is professional accreditation, shouldn't ITT Tech be widely accepted for transfer credits, etc?

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Sam C
http://www.uci.edu
UCI 2002

 

ITT IS ACIS accredited but was not when I graduated in 1991. Then it was ACCCST accredited.

 

sorry, stupid question follows:

ACIS, what does that stand for?

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Sam C
http://www.uci.edu
UCI 2002

 

ACCSCT is a recognized accrediting agency, but institutions are free to accept or decline transfer of credit or degrees from other schools. Schools with regional accreditation very typically do not consider credit from non-regionally accredited institutions.

Mark A. Sykes

 

Quite right. The cynic in me says this is because of the "good ol' boy" clubbiness of the regionals. After all, they were criticized (rightly) for decades because they were slow to recognized distance and other forms of nontraditional learning. Bunch of bean counters!

But the realist in me says there is--and should be--another reason. Accreditors like this (and DETC) have historically had as their core function the evaluation of technical training--and other forms of non-collegiate post-secondary learning. These schools are not colleges and universities in the academic sense. Many DETC-accredited schools award associate's degrees that can hardly be considered much more than 2-year technical training courses. They hardly fit into an academic scheme. As a result, RA schools are reluctant to accept credits and degrees from non-RA, nationally accredited schools, even if those schools (like ISIM or California National) are decidedly academic.

Rich Douglas, who can't wait for the embroglio that will occur when DETC gets into the doctorate business!