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Originally posted by Sam Stewart
To my knowledge, all new institutions go through a period that they are not accredited and have to go through steps to receive recognition from a regional assoication. If this is true, how would it be possible for new schools to begin operations if all schools were required to be accredited? If students were not able to evaluate the quality of such a new program and become students in the program, there would be no new opportunites. |
Right. But there is a world of difference between a school that opens up and works on becoming accredited and one that never does. For example, it was pretty clear from the beginning that The Graduate School of America was going to become accredited (although it would have been difficult to predict the speed at which they proceeded through the process).
That point only works with new schools that show distinct signs of being able to become accredited. The vast majority of unaccredited schools do not meet that criterion.