Nationally accredited program?

[a2jc4life]

I'm sorry if this has already been asked; the search tool is telling me everything I enter is either too long, too short, or too common. :/

I thought I had this process all planned out, having checked to ensure that my current school is US Dept of Ed-accredited, etc. so all my credits would transfer over. But I did not realize that there is such a thing as national accreditation agencies separate from regional ones, so TESU is accepting 0 of my credits. That makes for 66 (I think?) very expensive, very useless credits -- and honestly, just the idea of basically redoing every single course taken during my associate's degree is disheartening. I shouldn't have to test out of them or create portfolios; I already completed hours of coursework and passed final exams.

Is there another school that will accept this as transfer credit and still allow flexibility for degree completion, so I don't have to start all over? Or a workaround/appeal option at TESU? (I see that TESU has an option to submit an appeal to the registrar, but I also see folks here saying they never accept nationally-accredited courses for credit, so I'm not sure if that's a waste of time.)

[bjcheung77]

Where were these credits taken at? What was the school and what are the courses? What is your ultimate goal, a BSBA or BALS degree?
If these are from Penn Foster or another nationally accredited college, if these are again ACE credits, then they're transferable to about 2000 schools.

[videogamesrock]

Yes AMU/APUS will accept them. What school did you go to?

[bjcheung77]

Yes AMU/APUS will accept them. What school did you go to?

Yes, to add - Patten, Hodges, WGU and a few other Regionally Accredited schools will accept them.
You should list all the courses you have taken and from which institution that is Nationally Accredited.
If TESU won't take them, Excelsior might be another option as well, list your "certifications" if you have any.

[a2jc4life]

American College of Healthcare Sciences. It's accredited by the Us Dept of Ed via the DEAC (Distance Education...Accrediting Council? or some such). I'm not quite finished yet (SO GLAD I applied to TESU early, in case something came up I wasn't expecting -- because this is definitely something I wasn't expecting!), but I'll finish soon with, I think, 66 credits and an AAS.

English 100 (That's what it's called now. It was three 1-credit classes when I took them -- critical thinking, library skills, and writing.)
English 101 & 201
Anatomy & Physiology 210, 211, & 212
Psychology 101
Nutrition, Bodycare, & Herbalism (101)
Introduction to Aromatherapy (101)
Aromatherapy I (203)
Aromatherapy II (303)
Aromatherapy III (304)
Aromatherapy Chemistry (305)
Basics of Herbalism (101)
Herbal Studies (201)
Herbal Materia Medica I (302)
Herbal Materia Medica II (303)
Holistic Nutrition (308)
Holistic Pathophysiology (302)
Holistic Pathology & Protocols (303)
Healthcare Terminology (307)
Holistic Health Consulting & Business (306)

I don't actually care what kind of bachelors degree I get. I really just want to enroll in a master's program and can't because I don't have a bachelor's degree. The original plan was transfer these credits to TESU and use portfolio assessment to gain some communications-related credits (I've been blogging, publishing, etc. for a decade, so I have some experience in a range of communication areas), fill in a few gaps as necessary, and do a Learner-Designed Area of Study in something like "Natural Health Communications." But that was all shot to heck when I discovered nothing would transfer. :/

[videogamesrock]

Yes, to add - Patten, Hodges, WGU and a few other Regionally Accredited schools will accept them.
You should list all the courses you have taken and from which institution that is Nationally Accredited.
If TESU won't take them, Excelsior might be another option as well, list your "certifications" if you have any.

Rather than starting over again id get an evaluation from those schools.

[sanantone]

Most of those credits will not apply to a degree program at WGU and probably not Patten or Hodges either outside of maybe free electives. APUS may not be able to make good use of the credits either. But, I'm sure WGU will be the most inflexible due to the lack of room for free electives and very restrictive majors.

[a2jc4life]

Most of those credits will not apply to a degree program at WGU and probably not Patten or Hodges either outside of maybe free electives. APUS may not be able to make good use of the credits either. But, I'm sure WGU will be the most inflexible due to the lack of room for free electives and very restrictive majors.

WGU is largely business, isn't it? I'm not familiar with Patten or Hodges, although I'll give them a look. APUS didn't seem to have any degree programs that look like a good fit.

[dfrecore]

Yes - I think the main problem here is not lack or regional accreditation (although that IS a problem as well), but the fact that there's not really a degree program where these credits "fit." There are schools that will take NA courses, but if they were a bunch of business courses, it would be really easy - they would fit into any business degree. The fact that they are Herbal Medicines and Holistic Therapies and Aromatherpy is just difficult to fit into most degree plans.

I would look at EC's Heath Sciences Degree with a Health & Wellness emphasis. But, I can't look at their degree requirements right now to see what that entails.

I think that's the only school that will take those credits and fit them into a plan.

[a2jc4life]

Thank you so much; I'll take a look! If another school will take them, given the accreditation, at least a few of them ought to transfer as basic English and science courses. The bigger difficulty with schools where the upper-level courses don't fit is that their degree programs aren't a very good fit for me, which means a much longer, more expensive process to finish. Although still possibly less so than starting over.