Do the Big Three Accept Credits from DEAC Sources?

[sanantone]

There's not much research on the outcomes of NA vs. RA schools.

There should be somewhere.  Research on outcomes is part of the accreditation process.

Individual accreditation organizations might collect these stats, but hardly anyone has cared to compare them. The main focus has been on the tax dollars spent at for-profit colleges. Results might be different if a study focused on DEAC only, but NA vo-tech schools perform terribly, and the for-profit sector, as a whole, performs terribly. The school I worked for collected stats for ACCSC, but I was only aware of the outcomes for my program. Our students were paying $28k for an associate's degree, but the typical wage after graduation was $8 to $11 per hour.

ACICS was ignoring the bad outcomes of its schools, which is why they lost recognition temporarily. HLC was threatened with investigations due to its lax treatment of for-profit colleges buying accreditation. For a while, there were for-profit companies buying small, struggling RA schools and drastically changing them. It happened to Ashford, just to name an example. HLC finally clamped down on the practice.