| taxguy, there are a host of reasons, many of which are perfectly harmless, and I'm sorry if I oversimplified in my other post. Some besides the finances....
*politics. If someone at the school gets ****ed off at someone at NASAD, they suddenly decide not to be accredited anymore.
*NASAD likes things lumped together. I think you can get art majors accredited without the design majors, but not the other way around (I think I'm remembering this right, but there's a chance that I'm exactly backwards). Anyway, this creates situations where programs are dependent on each other to maintain accreditation, which sometimes causes difficulties. So for instance a school isn't accredited, and maybe that's because of the ceramics program, but you're interested in graphic design. Does that have an impact on your program of interest? Not really.
*Accreditation costs money. Yes, I know these places charge an arm and a leg, but administration costs are a real kicker. If a school decides they'd rather have some new computers or better cameras or what have you, then I'd have a hard time saying they should have spent that money on NASAD accreditation.
I have never seen an employer advertise that they specifically want someone with a degree from a NASAD school. I have never heard anyone outside of these forums site accreditation as a big mark against a school. Go where you will get the best education, and let your portfolio do the talking when you graduate. |