What does it mean to graduate from a school that specializes in career education? It may mean that you have a great skill, a great job and a great future.

It may mean that you owe $25,000 or more and are employed at a McDonalds. Would you like fries with that?

The role of the accreditors is to evaluate how a school performs in terms of providing the education they promise the students and in terms of seeing that that education is sufficient to enable the student to realize the career he came to school to obtain.

Basically, if the school, the student, and the accreditation body all do what they are supposed to do, then most students should realize their career dreams.

Since some accreditation bodies are run by those that are accredited, their is real chance for the accreditor to overlook infractions.

Here are some places the accreditor might overlook issues.

When authorizing new curriculum that provides the students less training, yet is sold to the accreditor as a way to improve student
outcomes. Many of the online programs have done this, sometimes to the detriment of a school's onground programs.

When verifying that the school is maintaining a qualified staff to teach various subjects. Programs are sometime taught by people with little industry experience and little in the way of credentials.

By overlooking when a school becomes essentially a high pressure sales organization with commission based compensation plans.

The value of a career eduation is only as strong as commitment of the organization offering it. Those organizations can only be kept in line when they have independent frequent accreditation reviews. The trend these days often seems the opposite.