DISCLAIMER: This site is designed by an amateur based on her own experience, and knowledge of distance education in the United States. It is purely a resource site, and the visitor to said site must take it upon themselves to verify the legitimacy of all programs listed on the main site as they have not been verified at this point. The webmistress, Ms. Chandra Stone, is not affiliated with these educational institutions, and is not responsible for content, products displayed, or educational degree validity of these sites. Each visitor of this site takes upon themselves the liability for seeking validation of these educational programs through the various state education departments and regional/national accreditation agencies. The webmistress does not offer a warranty nor guarantee the educational validity of these sites.
If you wish to verify the validity of the programs, you must look up the accrediting agency of your region or type of program to contact it concerning the college and its programs.
Some programs have specific types of approval that they need to be accepted in jobs and other institutions, i.e. Psychology and APA-Accreditation. For example, there are counseling programs that often need to be accredited by either the American Psychology Association (APA) or the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP), so please keep those locations in mind for counseling and psychology related programs. Know what specialized accreditation other than the local/regional accreditation your program needs!
Please be aware that the only US recognized accreditation agencies are listed at the linked via the following Department of Education webpage on page 4 if you scroll down to the areas on the bottom of each page to move forward.
Some potential agencies to start looking at for accredidation of the universities, and colleges are as follows (Be aware of which are recognized by the US Department of Education as linked to above):
