{"id":394,"date":"2015-08-06T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.forums.geteducated.com\/forums\/uncategorized\/2-regional-accreditation-vs-national-accreditation\/"},"modified":"2015-08-06T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T16:31:00","slug":"2-regional-accreditation-vs-national-accreditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/5-online-college-accreditation\/2-regional-accreditation-vs-national-accreditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Best College Accreditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most frequently asked questions about online degrees is what type of accreditation should an online college hold?<\/p>\n<p>The short answer is that there are two types of overall college accreditation in the USA:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>1) regional;<\/p>\n<p>2) national.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These 2 types of accreditation are not the same, and the type of accreditation your online degree programs holds will affect:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>1) employer acceptance of your degree;<\/p>\n<p>2) your degree&#8217;s acceptance for professional licensing;<\/p>\n<p>3) your ability to transfer credits and courses earned from one degree program to another.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For the long answer on this crucial question see GetEducated&#8217;s FAQ on this topic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/college-degree-mills\/203-what-is-online-college-accreditation\" rel=\"nofollow\">Distance Learning and Online College Accreditation<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most frequently asked questions about online degrees is what type of accreditation should an online college hold?&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-5-online-college-accreditation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}