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UoPeople - Not part of the National Clearinghouse? - hope22 - 04-23-2026

Hello,

As my employer is paying for partial costs, they will only pay if they are accredited through the National Clearinghouse as that is whom they verify college when doing background checks. Is this something they are working on currently?

RE: UoPeople - Not part of the National Clearinghouse? - wow - 04-23-2026

No one is accredited through the National Student Clearinghouse. It's a transcript and verification service. University of the People does not use it for transcripts. Whether or not they are in the National Student Clearinghouse database is something your employer has to check.

RE: UoPeople - Not part of the National Clearinghouse? - SteveFoerster - 04-23-2026

I believe that more schools use Parchment than NSC for transcripts, so if that's a requirement from your employer it's a pretty ill-conceived one.

RE: UoPeople - Not part of the National Clearinghouse? - davewill - 04-23-2026

So, did your employer fail to verify UofP or is this something you are pre-worrying about?

RE: UoPeople - Not part of the National Clearinghouse? - sanantone - 04-23-2026

Degree verification is separate from transcript services. Whether University of the People uses NSC for transcript services is irrelevant. The majority of accredited colleges are in the NSC database regardless of whether they use NSC for transcript services. If University of the People is not in the National Student Clearinghouse database for enrollment and degree verification, there are other ways to verify accreditation and whether you are enrolled.

You can download the list of institutions that participate in NSC's enrollment verification. There are 5,928 institutions on the list, and a lot of them do not use NSC for transcript services. However, University of the people is not on the list.

https://www.studentclearinghouse.org/verify/

RE: UoPeople - Not part of the National Clearinghouse? - ghostlypast - 04-25-2026

(04-23-2026, 11:23 AM)sanantone Wrote: You can download the list of institutions that participate in NSC's enrollment verification. There are 5,928 institutions on the list, and a lot of them do not use NSC for transcript services. However, University of the people is not on the list.

I can confirm. A fellow DF'er, question, ran a "review" site for the university. It made the following claim.

Quote:We conducted research through the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC), and the result was that Simone Biles has never enrolled in any UoPeople.edu classes.

I checked. UoPeople didn't use NSC at that time.

RE: UoPeople - Not part of the National Clearinghouse? - mcjon77 - 04-28-2026

(04-23-2026, 08:50 AM)SteveFoerster Wrote: I believe that more schools use Parchment than NSC for transcripts, so if that's a requirement from your employer it's a pretty ill-conceived one.
Yep.  Probably 20 years ago the national clearing House was the go-to place for your transcripts. These days parchment is definitely more popular.  I think all but one of my transcripts are from parchment. In fact, I can't remember which school uses the national clearing House.

RE: UoPeople - Not part of the National Clearinghouse? - sanantone - 05-24-2026

(04-28-2026, 04:58 PM)mcjon77 Wrote:
(04-23-2026, 08:50 AM)SteveFoerster Wrote: I believe that more schools use Parchment than NSC for transcripts, so if that's a requirement from your employer it's a pretty ill-conceived one.
Yep.  Probably 20 years ago the national clearing House was the go-to place for your transcripts. These days parchment is definitely more popular.  I think all but one of my transcripts are from parchment. In fact, I can't remember which school uses the national clearing House.

I am 100% sure that the employer is talking about degree or enrollment verification and not transcript services. The vast majority of higher education institutions still report enrollment data to the National Student Clearinghouse. Why would an employer care about where people order transcripts? That is irrelevant to an employer using their National Student Clearinghouse account for background checks.

Postsecondary institutions actively submitting enrollment data to the Clearinghouse account for 97 percent of the total enrollments at Title IV, degree-granting institutions in the U.S.

https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates/

RE: UoPeople - Not part of the National Clearinghouse? - Mint Berry Crunch - 05-28-2026

(05-24-2026, 05:15 PM)sanantone Wrote:
(04-28-2026, 04:58 PM)mcjon77 Wrote:
(04-23-2026, 08:50 AM)SteveFoerster Wrote: I believe that more schools use Parchment than NSC for transcripts, so if that's a requirement from your employer it's a pretty ill-conceived one.
Yep.  Probably 20 years ago the national clearing House was the go-to place for your transcripts. These days parchment is definitely more popular.  I think all but one of my transcripts are from parchment. In fact, I can't remember which school uses the national clearing House.

I am 100% sure that the employer is talking about degree or enrollment verification and not transcript services. The vast majority of higher education institutions still report enrollment data to the National Student Clearinghouse. Why would an employer care about where people order transcripts? That is irrelevant to an employer using their National Student Clearinghouse account for background checks.

Postsecondary institutions actively submitting enrollment data to the Clearinghouse account for 97 percent of the total enrollments at Title IV, degree-granting institutions in the U.S.

https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates/

would seem weird to me if they didn't accept an official transcript. I was wondering the same thing... who wouldn't accept a transcript from NSC?