Corinthian Colleges - Accreditations

Accreditations

All of the Everest campuses are nationally accredited except for Everest College Phoenix, which is a separate institution and regionally accredited. Some regionally accredited schools are reluctant to accept nationally accredited school credits in transfer (or recognize their degrees for entry into graduate programs). However, colleges that reject credits based on different accreditations are under scrutiny by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, a regional accreditor, used to have a policy requiring its member schools to deny credit transfer from nationally accredited schools. However, in 1997 the United States Department of Justice threatened the accreditor if it did not cease and desist this practice based solely on accreditation rather than on the quality of the credits. Since then, the Council on Higher Education Accreditation, various states, and regional accreditors have specifically admonished regionally accredited schools against denying transfer credit based on the type of accreditation held by the transferring institution.