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Penn Foster College is Nationally Accredited.

Penn Foster Career & High School are both regionally and nationally accredited.

Career / High School: http://www.pennfoster.edu/accreditation.html

College: http://www.pennfostercollege.edu/accreditation.html

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Answer 1: Yes. It is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC), which is an accreditor approved by the US Department of Education (USDE) and the USDE-sanctioned Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

However, DETC is a "national" accreditor; whereas most grade schools, high schools and both community and state colleges in most states are all "regionally" accredited. And the regional accreditors have all done, over the years, a pretty good job of convincing both regionally-accredited schools, and employers, that anything but "regional" accreditation is substandard.

It matters not that the "national" accreditor DETC is USDE- and CHEA-approved, just exactly the same as any "regional" accreditor. Some regionally-accredited schools, as well as some employers believe that if the school's accreditor is not one of the six "regional" accreditors in the United States, then it's somehow substandard.

They're wrong, of course, but that's what they believe.

So, then, getting a Penn-Foster College degree will not be an inherently bad thing. However, the first time some regionally-accredited college, or an employer decides not to accept it, and you cannot successfully educate it/him/her that it or s/he's mistaken, you'll wish you had gotten a degree from a "regionally" accredited school instead of Penn-Foster.

I, personally, would not be afraid to get a degree from Penn-Foster; but I'm an expert in accreditation, and could convince anyone, in fairly short order, of the wrong-headedness of "regional" accrediation elitism or snobbery. But most people don't have that kind of either skill or chutzpah. So I usually don't recommend getting degrees from "nationally" accredited schools like Penn-Foster, but it's entirely up to you what you do.

Penn-Foster, in any case, is legitimate and credible and accredited. That's the answer to your question.

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Yes, Penn Foster College is nationally accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC) and it is licensed by the Arizona State Board for Private Post Secondary Education.

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Penn Foster is nationally accredited... Something to keep in mind though is that if you were to transfer to a regionally accredited school, they may not recognize some or all of the credits from Penn Foster. So, if that's in your plan, check it out well before you start.

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.yes it is accredited!! and affordable too!! i highly recommend it

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in most community colleges, yes.

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