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Crown College has national accreditation which means its accredited as a career, technical or vocational school.  Regionally accredited schools are academic institutions and most will not accept transfer credits from Crown College.

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Crown has national accreditation which means its accredited as a career, technical or vocational school.   Regionally accredited schools are academic institutions and most will not take credits in transfer from nationally accredited schools whose curriculum they consider not suited to academic institutions.   Many of these schools would not qualify for regional accreditation.  John Wabel and the media could not point to one school in Washington that would take the credits except for University of Phoenix and City University which have articulation agreements with Crown College.   Read the newspaper accounts in the Tacoma News Tribune, Seattle Times, and the Wall Street Journal which confirm that most regionally accredited institutions will not Crown College's credits for transfer, because it is nationally accredited.  Read the very important difference between regional and national accreditation on at educationUSA, Elearners, and Yahoo.

Many students are unaware that there are two accreditations and the difference between the two.   Crown College and their staff have exploited this fact from as far back as 1988 to deceive students into believing that if they attend Crown, they will have no problem transferring their credits and degrees to other schools.   Prospective students are not accustomed  to a for-profit school that prides profit over ethics.   They are willing to take an admission's representative word because they see that person as an ally, a counselor who has their interest at heart as opposed to a predatory admission representative who is more concerned about recruiting students to make money for the school.   Many of the students who attended Crown College were not particularly sophisticated and quite susceptible to this kind of scam.

Crown College admission representatives were instructed to tell students that national  accreditation was better than regional accreditation or that since Crown College educated students all over the nation, through their online program, that their credits were good all over the nation.  In fact, Crown College admission representatives would tell prospective students anything they wanted to hear.   See Adrienne Rocco's complaint and declaration.

Do not let Crown College fool you into thinking that your credits will transfer easily.  You will have a difficult time transferring your Crown College degrees or credits to even a community college.   Remember Crown College grants degrees but they are still just a vocational, trade school not an academic institution.

American Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology (ACCSCT)

The ACCSCT is the national accreditor which accredits Crown College and if one looks at their Accreditation Standards and the schools they accredit it becomes clear why regionally accredited schools are very reluctant to take nationally accredited schools credits.    ACCSCT only accredits schools, as defined in I.A.11 of their Standards of Accreditation, which are "postsecondary institution with trade, occupational, or career-oriented educational objectives" not academic educational objectives!  This fact becomes even more clear when one looks at the schools they accredit only a small percentage of them even offer degrees.   They accredit 802 schools in all.   Looking at a directory of schools they accredit .  They accredit include schools that teach massage therapy, refrigeration, helicopter aviation, pet grooming, cosmetology, and culinary arts.  The majority of the schools they accredit offer diplomas or certificates in trades and are obviously not academically oriented.  It is also obvious why a a regionally accredited school, academically oriented college or university would want to accept their credits for transfer.    Crown may offer degrees with the same names as the degrees offered by academic institutions, however, it is still an occupational degree.

       

ere a bevy of witnesses including former students, former instructors and expert witnesses from University of Washington who were ready to testify.   Mr. Wabel decided to settle the case on the eve of trial.  The settlement was confidential but the scuttlebutt was that they received their loan money back.