No longer a distinction between national and regional accreditors

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In 2022, regional and national became under the same branch by the federal government, due to issues with monopolization by accreditation commissions. We no longer have regional accreditors, technically speaking.

 U.S Department of Education has amended the 2019 negotiated rulemaking on postsecondary accreditation, by allowing regional accrediting bodies to be able to accredit anywhere in the United States.

https://bppe.consulting/f/accreditation-series-6-big-news---no-more-%E2%80%9Cregional%E2%80%9D-accreditors?blogcategory=WASC