What is the difference between national and local accreditation?

National and Local Accreditation

The difference between regional and national accreditation was originally indicative of whether you were a regional or national school. In reality, national accreditation is actually a more difficult accreditation to achieve. The issue is that the larger, older, more traditional universities (State colleges, University of , Ivy League, etc.) are all regional schools (and therefore have regional accreditation), whereas most national schools have traditionally been proprietary (for-profit) trade schools and colleges of technology.

Although this situation is changing, there is still an academic bias against nationally accredited schools. Where you will see a difference is in how transfer credits work. They will transfer regional to national more easily than they will transfer national to regional. However, there are now several nationally accredited colleges offering Masters level degrees (especially MBAs). With the increased interest in online education and the recent lifting of restrictions concerning online education (nationally accredited colleges have a much stronger presence online than regionally accredited schools) I would expect the significance of whether a college is regionally or nationally accredited continuing to diminish.

One more thing, I am familiar with this topic because I work in education. However, I have NEVER had a potential employer ask about the accreditation of my degrees (I hold degrees from both regionally and nationally accredited schools). Few people are even aware of the fact that there is a distinction between the two and even fewer care one way or the other. When you choose a college you should be choosing an entire program. Transferring schools (with the exception of moving up to an advanced degree) is almost always opposed to the student's best interest. The student will almost always lose credits regardless of where they transfer to. The best option is to choose the right college the first time and stick with it through graduation. If you are not intending to move on to move on to an advanced degree (other than an MBA) you should probably not use the type of accreditation (regional or national) as a consideration in determining your choice of schools.

Transferring Credits

I have spoken with colleges, universities, and also education offices with the military and here is what I have found. It is easier to transfer credits from regionally accredited colleges rather than nationally and also if you wish to pursue a Master's degree than you must go to a regionally accredited college because you cannot go any further than a Bachelor's with a nationally accredited college degree. Also talking with various companies, they hold more respect and more weight towards someone with a degree from a regionally accredited college versus a nationally accredited college. I hope this might help you decide or maybe shed a little more light on the subject.

Potential challenges

• Nationally accredited college work is sometimes conditionally accepted at a regionally accredited colleges. As an example - an undergraduate degree from ITT Technical Institute (nationally - ACICS) is accepted by the University of Phoenix (regionally - NCACS). I am living through this example now for an MBA. Not sure why the distinction is made between regional and national accreditation. The regional schools assert it is an issue of education level as regional accreditation is supposed to be a better education. I have attended both regional and national accredited colleges and can honestly say I do not see a significant difference.
• I have an MBA from a "regionally accredited school" more importantly, it is from a business school that is accredited by the "AACSB" - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. How is this pertinent? I have NEVER seen a "Nationally" accredited school that is also accredited by the AACSB - the "Gold standard" of business school accrediting agencies - very few "regionally" accredited schools meet the rigorous requirements to earn an AACSB accreditation. see www.aacsb.edu for more info.

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