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Re: Ashford University- 1st class
Posted by Jeff on 3/27/08

    You are badly misinformed, perhaps because you spelled the name of the
    university incorrectly. It is Ashford, not Ashworth. The university is
    fully accredited by North Central - and with complete certainty, I can
    say that Ashford credits fully transfer to other schools.

    Unlike U. of Phoenix it is not a diploma mill or money machine.

    As to your other point, it too is badly mistaken. I got my BA degree in
    Business and got tranferred to Wisconsin. I entered the U.Wisc MBA
    program in Madison - and all of my credits from Ashford were fully
    accepted.

    Get your facts straight.

    J.

    On 3/27/08, Alex wrote:
    > This school was really put together by a couple of UOP students? Is
    > the school fully accredited? Is there a physical school?
    >
    > I was siging up today, till I finally looked to see what everybody is
    > saying~
    >
    >
    >
    > On 3/12/08, No dog in this fight wrote:
    >> On 11/13/07, Chris P. wrote:
    >>> On 11/11/07, Tim wrote:
    >>>> Even so, you have to wonder why people keep echoing a similar
    >>>> problem. It may be on the advisor, but in the court of public
    >>>> opinion the institution is almost always the one that takes the rap.
    >>>>
    >>>
    >>> Ashworth University is not REGIONALLY accredited. Therefor, there
    >>> degrees are worthless. They are only nationally accredited by DETC
    >>> which almsot all online schools can achieve. If the school is not
    >>> REGIONALLY credited then their degress are not respected and are
    >>> almost unrecognized by other schools, meaning you most likely won't
    >>> be able to transfer credits. In their case they need to be
    >>> accredited by SACS, which they are not. I called SACS directly, as
    >>> well as go to their website WWW.SACSCOC.ORG. Sorry folks, I would
    >>> look into another online school if your serious about your
    >>> education. If its the money problem and your only interested in
    >>> associates degrees, goto PennFoster, they are licensed to award
    >>> associate of science degrees.
    >>
    >> I have no dog in this fight, but I do object to people who say that
    >> schools are "fully accredited" when they are not regionally
    >> accredited. I decided to check myself. First I checked the Ashford
    >> site and found this:
    >> http://www.ashford.edu/info/accreditation.php
    >>
    >> Which claims they are regionally accredited by the Higher Learning
    >> Commission, a commission of the North Central Association of Colleges
    >> and Schools. This is a bona fide regional accreditation agency.
    >>
    >> So I went to the regional accreditation site to double check. The
    >> attached link (very long) should show the page that says that Ashford
    >> is regionally accredited. It is very interesting. It says:
    >>
    >> Ashford University* IA Accredited
    >>
    >> *Name change: Mount St. Clare College to The Franciscan University
    >> (12/5/02) to The Franciscan University of the Prairies (9/23/04).
    >> Purchased by Ashford University in March 2005.
    >>
    >> So, Ashford bought an accredited school in 2005 and currently has
    >> their programs under that accreditation umbrella (buying accredited
    >> schools is not unheard of...it increases the market value of a school
    >> when it is for sale. My kids K-8 Christian School bought an accredited
    >> 7-12 school as a second campus). Ashford will have to get reaccredited
    >> eventually...and I suspect it is not far off. In my region (WASC) it
    >> is a major undertaking. I have been through several WASC
    > accreditations.
    >>

     
     

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