Accreditation questions

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So I've been attending Augusta Technical College & applied for the Fall 2016 semester for their ADN program. I recently discovered (shame on me) that they aren't nationally accredited. I'm a military spouse so I will not be staying in Georgia. How is this going to affect me? Has anyone gone to a school that's not nationally accredited? What was your experience? I want to eventually attain my BSN & I heard Chamberlain has an online program that would accept my degree from ATC. I'm freaking out over here. Thank you for any help.

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I think you will have a hard time. A lot of places only hire from accredited programs including the federal govt if you go oversees and want to try and work on base.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

It seems like an odd situation - did the program have ACEN (CCNE does not do ADN programs) accreditation at some point? If this is the case, you may want to carefully investigate & see what happened. Although you would be able to sit for NCLEX as long as the program is "approved" at the state level (usually by the BON), lack of accreditation would really limit your educational advancement opportunities in the future.

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Is it the program or the college that is not accredited? It just occurred to me that if the school is accredited by a body that is recognized that works to. You could then just transfer to another school.

U.S. Department of Education Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs

The school is accredited. My advice would be to transfer to another school/ apply to other nursing programs that are accredited by ACEN as HouTx said. The website lists their nursing program as ACEN accredited though (and so does ACEN on their website) so idk what is going on.

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