Once you start at a US university can they close it or do they have to let you finish?

Question

I posted this question yesterday and got two responses that the school had no obligation to me.

I think if you are going to anwser you should at least know what you are talking about!

I just got off the phone with the accredation board that certifies my school and they said under federal law the school must let me finish the degree I started.

Thanks for the OPINIONS but they sent me the regulation, they first of all have plenty of money, and several satelite campuses that are run and acredited as US schools so they would risk their acreditation. They would have to phase out the program and allow the sudents whom have started a program to finish with that program.

Well Linkin if you are going to take me to task I also never said they were going bankrupt so to anwser assuming that is the fact seems just as incomplete.

Answer 1

If a school is closing, they are closing, it is like a store going out of business. How do you expect to finish your degree if there are no professors? Or classes? This happened to a school in georgia, Gordon College I think was the name. You are basically SOL.

Answer 2

People post answers to questions based on their own knowledge. They believe they know what they are talking about, based on the facts you set forth in your question. It's up to you to judge those answers, and to get backup (as you did.) They were answering because they thought they knew the answer. And they were wrong. Or were they?

My understanding is that a school - even an accredited school - can close at any time (so they were right). However, they DO need to provide you with a way to complete your degree (so the accreditation body was ALSO right). This won't necessarily be at the school where you started. They can arrange for your credits to transfer to another university nearby, and you would graduate from there. This has happened to several universities in the recent past.

Universities can also close entire campuses, and merge those students into another campus - this sounds like your situation. This happened to Myers University, for example. They closed a campus in one city, and those students were offered places at their other campus. Those that could not transfer were refunded tuition for the semester. In this case, the college closed the campus because it wasn't pulling enough students.

Answer 3

I believe the accreditation board you contacted, and most likely believe there is some law that protects students. However, as the one answer stated, how do you sue for damages an entity that no longer exists. I have found a newspaper article about a college that went bankrupt. I hope no one ever has to go through this situation, but unfortunately it can be a long process to resolve when it does occur.

Answer 4

We can only answer based on the limited facts mentioned in your question.

You still don't understand the answers. If they're open, they have to let you finish as long as you don't break any of their rules.

However, bankruptcy is a totally different thing. Keeping their accreditation is the least of their worries. If they can't pay their bills, they're going to have to shut down.

You never mentioned that they had lots of money in the first question. Even if they do, that's not going to stop them from packing up and shutting down if they really wanted to for some strange reason.

If you're going to complain about answers, you need to ask better questions and give all the necessary facts.

Answer 5

I think as long as the close at the end of a term or between semesters, or issue refunds then they can probably close whenever.

Who cares what the accredation board says? What are they going to do... take away the school accredation?

Answer 6

So you have an answer from the accreditation board and you presumably regard them as knowing what they are talking about then you must be looking for an OPINION on Yahoo answers.

Now, assuming you take a 4 year degree course, and after one year the University is bombed, hit by an aeroplane, suffers collapse due to subsidence or runs out of cash so they no longer exist, then who are you going to sue about your unfinished degree course?

Answer 7

Colleges are like every other trade, in the event that they now not become profitable, they may be able to near. you might commonly get a few style of retribution if that have been to occur, however you cannot probably assume them to hold a university open simply seeing that you're presently attending.