Would you ever recommend a NA degree?

[bjcheung77]

Everything lumped "below NA" are not considered to be all degree mills. There are the state approved schools, many of these are approved for certificates, diplomas, and associates, with a few having bachelor degree offerings. These schools are perfectly fine for the state you're in, but not be for other states if it requires licensing; for the professions that do not require a license to practice, you should be fine.

As long as the school is recognized by their State, I would go further and make sure they're recognized by another secondary programmatic/systematic accreditation - IE, some business certs such as Six Sigma are from state authorized schools which are not colleges/universities, they're just institutes with specific training in mind.

For example, I took as many "cheap" Management & Strategy Institute certifications as they are industry accredited/certified.
Their programs are expensive if you buy from them directly, but if you go through Groupon, you can get a package deal. These type of programs and schools are ones I wouldn't mind attending, as long as you know what you're getting... "industry recognized" certs.

An example where you don't want to get your foot into would be an unaccredited health related field, such as "natural health". There was a school (one of many), Clayton College of Natural Health, I think they've resumed under another operation. It's so scary sometimes when I read profiles of "natural healers" and they've graduated from schools that have similar "accreditation".

Laugh, see their new college creation http://www.naturalhealthcollege.org/
- Their CCNH transfer page http://www.naturalhealthcollege.org/CCNH-transfer.php
- Their accreditation page: http://www.naturalhealthcollege.org/accreditation.php
None of their accreditation are from valid accreditors, I've read so many schools using the same 3, all fake.