European International University

[eLearner]

<snip>

I've been engaging with education boards for about 20+ years now. And in that time, I've learned that when (most) people decide a school is bad or doing something nefarious (even with little or no proof at all), no amount of factual information to the contrary will change their minds, especially not the minds of doom addicts and carnival barkers.

I remember when schools like Agora, United Medical Institute, and Nexford University were all ASIC accredited and received absolute crap from board goers (at other boards) up until the very days that each got DEAC accredited. Then, all of a sudden, once DEAC accredited, the same people declared the schools were just fine and they "always knew they were legit!" Heh, yeah, sure ya did! 

I have been critical of lots of schools. But I've always been willing to change my opinion when new developments come. That hasn't happened often for me, but it has happened.

I don't think EIU is perfect, but it's not debatable that they have made strong efforts to improve and be scrutinized by 3rd party authorities. I don't know about others, but personally if I were running a scam, I wouldn't get registered with the education department of the national government in my home country, and then open myself up to the watch of any kind of accreditor. I would know better that I was setting myself up to get exposed and brought down. 

It takes time to reach the ultimate level of recognition and I've seen other legitimate schools do way less than EIU is doing on the road to that recognition. I don't know if EIU's situation will wind up reaching the level the other schools I mentioned have, but if they continue to go in this direction, not get greedy and make bad partnerships just for the money, and keep their prices reasonable, they can get there too. I've seen it happen enough times now that I know it's possible.