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Many students are understandably confused about what accreditation means. Whether you’re pursuing an associates, undergraduate, masters or graduate online degree, you’ll want to take online accredited courses. Employers won't take your degree very seriously if it's from a non-accredited institution. (Accreditation is less important for certificate-type programs).

The problem is that there's no single accreditation agency that provides colleges and universities, even bricks and mortar schools, with accreditation on a national level. That's true whether your attending live classes or pursuing an online degree. Professors and administrators have debated for years about whether a national authority should be created to certify the quality of higher education. But right now, college accreditation is given out by several different, and disconnected groups.


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The U.S. Department of Education (USDE) does, however, approve certain organizations to be in charge of approving schools with providing accredited online college courses. There are seven regional associations that the USDE approves, that you can look to when you want to research a list of accredited online degree schools, or even to learn more about university accreditation for schools that are more oriented toward on-campus teaching:

  • Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Higher Education
    http://www.msche.org/
  • New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Commission on Institutions of Higher Learning
    http://www.neasc.org/cihe/cihe.htm
  • North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, The Higher Learning Commission
    http://www.ncahigherlearningcommission.org/
  • Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities
    http://www.nwccu.org/
  • Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
    http://www.sacscoc.org/
  • Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Accrediting Commission for Junior and Community Colleges
    http://www.wascweb.org/
  • Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities
    http://www.wascweb.org/
Two other organizations focus more specifically on accrediting online degree schools. They are:
1) The Distance Education & Training Council (DETC), which rates and approves college degrees online from accredited colleges in about 70 different locations.
2) The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges & Schools. (Read more on How credible are the accreditation agencies?)

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