Will Saylor's MBA program be nationally or regionally accredited in the future?

[midnite123]

Basically, you currently have an unaccredited degree (or at the very best, a state approved degree) from Saylor and it will remain that way unless otherwise noted by them.  Even if they do get NA or RA status, you can't use yours or reference it as an accredited degree until they update that within your records.  Some institutions will update the degree if the contents haven't changed when they get accredited, however, it depends on the institution, some will need you to go through newer regulations (extra class or two).  Congrats for now, wait for accreditation and resubmit request to get the diploma again...

On that note, how are the UoPeople NA degrees being treated currently? Are they automatically considered RA since they were accredited when issued?

It's pretty much either NA or RA, there's a fine line to that, there can't be a 'grey area', it's one or the other...  If the student graduates when the degree is NA, it remains NA until the institution can reissue a new degree indicating they meet the RA requirements.  If it's already transition to RA, and then they graduate the day after transition, they've got an RA degree, so when the diploma gets shipped, you've got the RA degree in hand.

That's what we always say, but no one has done an actual study on what employers and academic registrars actually do in this situation in like twenty years, so we really have no idea. Doubly so in that Uncle Sam no longer recognizes RA and NA as categories (rightfully, IMHO). 

That said, given that we know anecdotally that the vast majority of employers don't know the first thing about accreditation, I would be astonished if they treated any UoPeople any differently from those from any other institution, before or after they got WASC accreditation.

 "given that we know anecdotally that the vast majority of employers don't know the first thing about accreditation, I would be astonished if they treated any UoPeople any differently from those from any other institution, before or after they got WASC accreditation."

I agree with this about the majority of employers.

University of the People,
or even Saylor,
if someone has a Bachelor's and  lists an MBA from Saylor,
   Is it likely it will be questioned?

I guess it all depends on the company applied to???
along with experience

[Tomas]

I read somewhere that UoPeople was going to honor degrees as RA dating back to 2021. If I am not mistaken.

I would believe this. The school may need to update records, but overall it makes sense. My understanding is that when a school transitions from applicant status to candidate status for accreditation, it means that they meet the general requirements, and so it changes the way their degrees are treated, even pre-accreditation. So, if the school already achieved candidate status in 2021, then they would want to validate any degrees earned in that period post accreditation.

Date was set retroactively to July 31, 2024.