The Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs

摘要

The Information Age workplace has grown larger and more globally prominent over the past 30 years and places a great demand on those entering this workforce to be highly skilled and educated. Higher education was once viewed as the domain of scholars, theorists and high-profile career seekers, like doctors, lawyers and engineers. However, it is now an expectation that people applying for positions in almost every industry and career field will bring to that position the skills imbued in them by their tertiary education programs. Marry this frequent expectation to attain credentials and skills-based learning beyond high school with the rise in for-profit higher education institutions and "online diploma mills", and one encounters a US higher education system which requires not only careful navigation, but informed decision-making in terms of where to earn one's credentials, as well.