ENEB Master Thread

[nykorn]

For US school accreditation, always check this site (Blackwell isn't on it): https://ope.ed.gov/dapip/#/search-results

American accreditation is tricky. As I've written in this thread before, the US gov has gotten rid of the official accreditation difference between regional and national accreditation, but each state still has its own individual rules on what it accepts. As an example DEAC is a national accreditor which will appear on schools on this website, and Washington state now accepts it as equal to regional accreditation for getting a license to practice via your degree (public school teaching etc). However California state does NOT accept DEAC. So you can get a public school teacher license with DEAC in Washington but not in California. The trickier part is when you go abroad and try to use your degree for immigration or a foreign license. Some countries like Canada look at if the accreditor is valid in the state the school is registered in, not if it's accredited on a national basis (so if your school is DEAC accredited and registered in California, Canada says it's invalid, but if it's DEAC accredited and registered in Washington, Canada says it's valid).

At any rate Blackwell has neither national nor regional accreditation as nothing shows up on ope.ed.gov.

Translated from Chinese language, the Chinese expression is "yejidaxue."

Plenty of us can read Chinese characters but we don't know the Chinese pronunciation (I speak Japanese). If you write Chinese words in the future it would be more helpful to include the characters and not the Latin alphabet as they are the same (野鶏). In this case according to this site the Chinese phrase comes from a famous Chinese story "囲城" where the main character graduates from said "Wild Chicken University". Interestingly it also says Japanese "F-rank schools" (basically like ENEB - anyone can get in, and probably anyone can graduate, and there is no prestige whatsoever, but it has no practical bad effect on job hunting) which are legally recognized as able to grant degrees in Japan, are claimed to be diploma mills by Chinese people - yet another example of how trying to see if your school's accreditation is valid internationally is tricky https://note.com/sosen/n/n7469069f92ad