Nationally Accredited Universities

Huh? Brain fog from the term nationally accredited.

Please list at least one or two “nationally accredited” college or university.

Heard that Franklin and Liberty both accepts credit from those higher education institutions.

 

Any institutional accrediting agency that isn't a regional association is national accreditor. Thus, schools accredited by DEAC, TRACS, etc.

 

Thanks!

 

"National" and "Regional" are terms that are going away. The regionals are accrediting schools outside their respective regions. The government is trying to extinguish the difference. We'll see.

 

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Yes, we’ll see.

 

What I'm interested in are not the distinctions, but the differences. As long as there is a significant difference in terms of degree and credit acceptance with employers and schools, I think it matters. If this difference goes away, I don't really care if there are technical distinctions.

As I recall, the only reason this was (or is) contentious is the graduates of certain schools insisting that difference didn't exist.

 

It's the schools themselves that insist on the differences. A lot of them now list the specific accreditors that they'll accept, rather than just saying "regionally accredited" or "historically regionally accredited", but they won't accept transfer credits from non RA schools.

 

So long as the American Education system exists, there will likely be some keen to maintain the difference. Some schools, some accreditors, some credential evaluators, some critics, some employers, some students, some professors, some grads, some licensing authorities.... The difference is not going away - and it's not going anywhere - in any sense of that expression.

 

But this isn't a sliding scale. Regional accreditation is a huge gulf away from other institutional accreditation.

 

Some see it as that huge gulf -- others, including the USDE don't. I'm sure you're aware of this:
https://www.powerslaw.com/department-of-educations-accreditation-rule-seeks-to-eliminate-distinction-between-regional-and-national-accrediting-agencies/

And as I said - just about everyone takes a stand on whether there's a huge difference or not - and even if there is, how much it matters to them. Pick an opinion and you'll find people who support it.

 

The USDoE has one agenda in higher education: proper distribution of federal financial aid. They don't need to make distinctions between agencies approved to accredit schools to do this. So, they don't.

Some people want to make a case that the USDoE has decided these accreditors are equal. I don't. I think it shows that they all meet the minimum needs of the USDoE, and distinctions between them matter not to USDoE. But the DO matter in a lot of other situations, and USDoE's distinctions make zero difference.

This was the central issue of my Union dissertation. There were differences that are statistically significant. I think its safe to say that, generally, those differences remain today. Whether or not they matter to any individual, of course, varies tremendously. But they remain very real.

 

None that I know of, which makes it more of a problem, not less, because students don't know something that, for some, matters.

It would be an interesting mixed methods study, where you would take some measurements, but also interview key stakeholders to examine why these differences persist.

 

There's also the Association of Institutions of Jewish Studies on the Faith Based list.

 

There have been a couple of law schools, maybe still are, that have no regional accreditation but are ABA approved. Thomas Jefferson Law School was one and I think there was another LA area example. In this special situation, regional accreditation is much less important than the ABA'S national approval.

 

There was a consequence however. ABA approval is not institutional approval. It applies only to the school's JD program. So when TJLS started offering Ll.M. and J.S.D. degrees, these were technically and legally unaccredited.

 

"technically...."

Exactly. I wonder if anyone would make that distinction in a way that actually mattered? I can see situations hypothetically, but I don't know if it would actually matter in real life.