{"id":405,"date":"2015-08-06T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.forums.geteducated.com\/forums\/uncategorized\/1893-regional-vs-national-accreditation-employer-pov\/"},"modified":"2015-08-06T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T16:31:00","slug":"1893-regional-vs-national-accreditation-employer-pov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/5-online-college-accreditation\/1893-regional-vs-national-accreditation-employer-pov\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationally Accredited MBA: Pros &#038; Cons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been researching a lot of schools concerning online MBA programs. Since cost is a huge factor for me, I&#8217;ve found several nationally accredited schools that I&#8217;m considering. I&#8217;ve read that regionally accredited schools are typically a bit more reputable and the credits are more easily transferred and recognized by other schools. However, since this is my Masters and I&#8217;m not planning on going on to get a Ph.D, is it worth it to pay extra for a regional accreditation?<\/p>\n<p>Do employers care at all about where the degree came from?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll most likely be choosing a smaller school that is not well known so I don&#8217;t think anyone would know the accreditation unless they took the time to research.<\/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>I&#8217;ve been researching a lot of schools concerning online MBA programs. Since cost is a huge factor for me, I&#8217;ve&#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-405","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\/405","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=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}