Here are some institutions with regional accreditation, the accepted stamp of approval.

This means that the degrees and courses currently supported by the university will transfer to other universities with regional or national accreditations.

This application process takes several years and is not a guarantee that the school will ever receive regional accreditation.

In 1974 the school received regional accreditation for the first time.

There is however an issue with vocational or "career" schools who have national accreditation instead of regional accreditation.

On the other hand, some distance-education institutions think regional accreditation is not set up to evaluate them.

In the interim the decision had been made by church leadership to pursue regional accreditation in California.

Eventually, Ambassador returned to full four-year status, operating with state approval but not regional accreditation.

Several of the larger for-profit schools have sought and received regional accreditation, including the following:

Institutions already holding regional or national accreditation were not required to seek California state approval.