Weird Accreditation Question

[sanantone]

Thanks, but I think you misunderstood my question.  I'm wondering about what happens if the school gains or loses accreditation after one enrolls as a student but before graduation.

My response still answers your question. What matters is whether or not the school is accredited at the time of graduation.

Isn't this only half true? If your school is RA and you complete, say, 60 credits, then the school loses accreditation, aren't those 60 credits still transferable to other RA schools? Honestly, I just find it highly suspect that a person could complete 117 credits at an unaccredited School A, then one 3 credit class at newly-accredited School A (assuming it achieves accreditation standards) and have a legitimate degree.

I remember something about NationsU (right after they got NA) how people completing the unaccredited coursework would have to complete almost all of it again under the new NA standards, but I may be misremembering something.

The question was about a diploma rather than loose credits.

Normally, schools have adopted the standards required by the accrediting agency long before accreditation because they have to meet the standards in order to become accredited. The school I taught at considered becoming regionally accredited, but they didn't want to freeze their programs. Basically, after getting their programs up to par, they could not be changed because they were under evaluation. I don't know how DEAC operates, and I can't remember what happened with Nations. I think their students had the option to switch, but I can't remember if that happened before accreditation.

I also read on one of Capella's pages that their program was aligned with a programmatic accreditor's requirements, but they were still in the application process. TESU changed its BSBA long before they earned ACBSP accreditation. My degree is considered ACBSP-accredited even though I was almost finished with the whole thing before accreditation. I also believe that APUS has designed its engineering program to meet ABET standards, but they aren't accredited yet.