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Federal student loans shouldn't be available to any non-accredited institution. If your credit hours won't transfer then it isn't a real College or University.

dragonwriter 10y ago
> Federal student loans shouldn't be available to any non-accredited institution. ITT was accredited by an accreditor recognized by the government (though, among their many other problems, that accreditor has, this year, been formally recommended to be removed from that list of recognized accreditors; and even if they weren't removed, they had notified ITT that ITT's accreditation was in jeopardy -- that jeopardy was, in fact, the main direct basis of the recent DOE actions against ITT [the other direct basis is the risk associated with the fraud lawsuits against ITT, which are also the basis for the accreditation risk].) > If your credit hours won't transfer then it isn't a real College or University. Transferrability is a different issue than accreditation, and often differs strongly from receiving school to receiving school.
- johnward 10y ago
  > Transferability is a different issue than accreditation, and often differs strongly from receiving school to receiving school. Yes but basically no regionally accredited school is taking nationally accredited credits. There is no way to transfer to a "legitimate school" in that case.
  - dragonwriter 10y ago
    > Yes but basically no regionally accredited school is taking nationally accredited credits. Plenty of regionally accredited schools don't take regionally accredited credits (even from the same accreditor), either. Common accreditation doesn't imply transferability.
SilasX 10y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but most 300+-level classes won't transfer either. My mechanical engineering degree's MEEN 363: Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems won't transfer to other universities because NIH. (Or rather, NTH, I guess.)

dragonwriter 10y ago

> Federal student loans shouldn't be available to any non-accredited institution. ITT was accredited by an accreditor recognized by the government (though, among their many other problems, that accreditor has, this year, been formally recommended to be removed from that list of recognized accreditors; and even if they weren't removed, they had notified ITT that ITT's accreditation was in jeopardy -- that jeopardy was, in fact, the main direct basis of the recent DOE actions against ITT [the other direct basis is the risk associated with the fraud lawsuits against ITT, which are also the basis for the accreditation risk].) > If your credit hours won't transfer then it isn't a real College or University. Transferrability is a different issue than accreditation, and often differs strongly from receiving school to receiving school.

johnward 10y ago
> Transferability is a different issue than accreditation, and often differs strongly from receiving school to receiving school. Yes but basically no regionally accredited school is taking nationally accredited credits. There is no way to transfer to a "legitimate school" in that case.
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  > Yes but basically no regionally accredited school is taking nationally accredited credits. Plenty of regionally accredited schools don't take regionally accredited credits (even from the same accreditor), either. Common accreditation doesn't imply transferability.

SilasX 10y ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but most 300+-level classes won't transfer either. My mechanical engineering degree's MEEN 363: Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems won't transfer to other universities because NIH. (Or rather, NTH, I guess.)