When a school loses it's accreditation how does that affect the students?

Question

If a student is in school and before graduating the school loses it's accreditation does the student's degree account for anything? Will they have to take those classes over again once the accreditation is restored? How exactly does that work?

Answer 1

It is Disaster!

You have to find a school that will let you transfer the credits from the classes that you have taken. Otherwise you will have to take those courses over again.

Some places of employment will still accept your degree, but other schools will NOT. If you need to take more schooling or go on to get an advanced degree then you CAN'T.

It depends on what field you are working in if your degree will be worth anything or not. If you are an engineer then it could matter, if you are in business school, where the school really matters, then you could be in trouble.

What I would do would be to organize a group of your fellow students and march on the office of the Dean. You have invested a lot of money in your education and now that investment has been wasted! You need to get mad and you need to show your school that you are mad!

When a school loses accreditation it is usually a failure of the administration. It could be because the school (the students) aren't performing well, but most of the time the reason has little to do with the students. You need to talk with the administration and find out what happened.

If the administration doesn't want to listen to you then you need to have as many students as possible call their parents and complain, you need to contact the Board of Directors, the Alumni Association, and the state governor.

Now comes the really bad news, most students go to school on scholarships or with at least some sort of financial aid. All that aid is in jeopardy. Most finical aid groups do not want their funds to be wasted at a non-accredited school.

You need to get mad, get mobilized, and get some action and you need to do it NOW!

Answer 2

Which school were you attending? It is likely not a "disaster," as one other overly dramatic respondent said, since schools often gain and lose and then regain their accreditation, and even the agencies that _do_ the accrediting gain and lose and regain their authority to _give_ the accreditation. I don't think you're in a terrible fix, especially since it may be likely that your school will regain its accreditation in one or a few years.

Unless you know your school is an actual diploma mill, I don't think employers are going to look down on your diploma. Employers wouldn't actually look up a school's accreditation information even if they had the time, and probably don't even care. As long as you've attended an actual college, you're still doing better than University of Phoenix. Colleges can fall out of accreditation for any number of reasons, not even necessarily related to a sudden drop in educational quality.

Here's some info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_accreditation
http://education.yahoo.net/degrees/article.jsp?article=_featured_accreditation
And an article about why schools that temporarily (and sometimes even permanently) lose their accreditation are still allowed to keep their ".edu" web addresses:
http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i14/14a02901.htm

Answer 3

Well, the degree will not be looked upon as well as a degree from an accredited institution. If you decided to switch schools, you could probably test out in all of the classes you've taken to show that you know the material.

Answer 4

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