Met with some banking HR people on campus today.

[videogamesrock]

Some how it turned into a NA/RA discussion.

[sanantone]

This comment is a little too general. The real answer is "it depends". For example, the Fed has programs for new graduates, some are posted on USAjobs and anyone can apply. Others are recruited on campuses. The Fed will recruit on state and private campuses, but you won't see them at UoP.

Your NA degree may get you a cert, but it may get halted when the agency has to select among the best qualified.

As Mednat said, UoP is regionally accredited. Bringing up UoP, a regionally accredited school, when we're discussing the federal government's acceptance of NA degrees means that there is a continued failure to differentiate between tax status, reputation, and accreditation. They are not one and the same. And, the question should not be whether or not the feds recruit from NA schools (because many RA non-profits will also never see federal recruiters), but whether or not the feds hire people with NA degrees. There is plenty of proof that they do.

The federal government's choice not to recruit on some campuses has a lot to do with prestige or reputation and nothing to do with accreditation. It also has a lot to do with the school making an effort to form connections. For example, I worked at an NA for-profit. Even though Texas has a strong bias against NA in the criminal justice field (the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement doesn't even recognize NA degrees), I was able to get a TDCJ warden to come to my school and attempt to recruit students. As far as law and procedures go, the federal government does not ban NA degrees. I've come across state and local agencies that clearly express that they will not accept NA degrees. To say that the federal government does not accept NA degrees is totally inaccurate. There might be some exceptions in the military, I do not know; but, in general, the federal government makes no distinction between NA and RA degrees. Any hiring manager's bias against certain types of schools should not be confused with acceptance of certain types of accreditation. Again, reputation/prestige, tax status, and accreditation are all very different things. If a hiring manager were to discriminate against ITT Tech degrees, I would bet $1 million that it would either be because the school has a bad reputation or the person erroneously believes the school is unaccredited. Even in HR, most do not know the difference between NA and RA.

By the way, many Presidential Management Fellows (this is a very selective program) have degrees from for-profit schools.
http://www.pmf.gov/media/91611/2015_fina..._final.pdf

[videogamesrock]

You can go on LinkedIn and see what companies hire people with NA degrees. So far I've found Boars Head (HR Dept.) Lockheed Martin, City of New Orleans, GM, Sheriffs office, and BOFA. I used "Columbia Southern University" as my search.