$900 Elmwood Master of Leadership and Management (NA DEAC)

[SteveFoerster]

I’m quite puzzled by this - they seem to accept international students, but not students from certain states within the US?

I'm not in the US, so forgive me for speaking out of turn here. However, it is my understanding that the US system has "state authorization requirements", which would mean that various online degrees would only be available to students in the specific states that have already provided the "authorization". Whereas, that would be a non-issue for most international students.

On a tangential note, I'd imagine that that's why the Saylor MBA is only available to Floridian and international students, right?

Yes, that's pretty much it.  They need to seek authorization in each state to do business there which is separate from being accredited.  This takes time and money.  For other countries the DEAC and/or CHEA accreditation could be enough without the extra hurdle of authorization to do business.

Yes, although schools with state authorization that participate in NC-SARA can also recruit students in any state that is part of that compact, which is all of them except California, so it's really just two processes for state/territory authorization rather than fifty-six.