Accreditation and Licensure

Sessions, an online school of design, is accredited by The Distance Education and Training Council (DETC) for its continuing education courses and programs.

The Distance Education and Training Council is a nationally recognized educational association and accrediting agency located in Washington, D.C. Founded as the National Home Study Council in 1926, DETC's mission is to promote sound educational standards and ethical business practices within the correspondence field.

Recently DETC has emerged as a leader in global distance learning. DETC has accredited members in Canada, Ireland, Japan, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. With its 75-plus years of history and its highly refined and federally recognized accreditation program, DETC offers distance learning institutions the most current, relevant and practical services for the 21st Century.

What Accreditation Means

Our online design school has a distance education accreditation, a certification by a recognized body that a distance education institution has voluntarily undergone a comprehensive study and peer examination that has demonstrated that the institution does in fact meet the established standards. The institution must perform the functions that it claims: that it has set continuing educational goals for students who enroll, offers formal, organized learning experiences and services that enable students to meet these stated goals, and can, in fact, show that students and graduates have benefited from the learning experiences provided.

Accreditation for Sessions.edu, online school of design, ensures that as an institution, Sessions meets certain standards. It is a promise that our institution will provide the quality of continuing education courses it claims to offer. Accreditation assures the student that the institution operates on a sound financial basis, has an approved program of study, qualified instructors, adequate facilities and equipment, effective recruitment and admission policies, and advertises its courses truthfully. Historically and currently, accreditation may be said to:

• Foster excellence in education through the development of standards for assessing educational effectiveness;

• Encourage improvement through continuous self-evaluation and planning; and

• Assure the educational community, students, state and federal authorities, the general public and other interested agencies or organizations that this continuing education institution has clearly defined and appropriate objectives; maintains conditions under which their achievement can be reasonably expected; appears in fact to be accomplishing them; and can be expected to continue to do so.

To learn more, visit the DETC site.

Sessions is regionally accredited by The Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools.

The Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools is one of three Commissions that function within Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. The others are the Commission on Higher Education and the Commission on Elementary Schools. The Commission on Secondary Schools serves both public and non-public schools in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia. In addition, it accredits schools in the Caribbean as well as various locations around the world.

The Commission on Secondary Schools (CSS) was established in November 1920 to promote the improvement of secondary education and to secure better coordination and understanding between secondary schools and institutions of higher education. It serves public and non-public middle, intermediate, and/or secondary schools, non-degree granting vocational technical and postsecondary institutions, special purpose schools, supplementary education centers, and distance education institutions.

Learn more, visit the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools.

Sessions is licensed by the New York State Board of Education Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision as an online school of design.

The Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision (BPSS) oversees and monitors all non-degree granting proprietary schools in New York State. The Bureau is responsible for ensuring that the overall educational quality of the programs offered will provide students with the skills necessary for them to secure meaningful employment and for protecting students' financial interests while attending proprietary schools. The online design curriculum developed and taught at Sessions.edu fosters this type of environment.

BPSS licenses/registers all proprietary schools and credentials all proprietary school teachers to ensure that appropriate standards are met. The Bureau investigates student complaints and conducts comprehensive investigations of schools to assure compliance with Education Law and Commissioner's Regulations. BPSS works closely with the State-mandated Proprietary School Advisory Council in carrying out its mission.

To learn more, visit the New York State Board of Education site.

Sessions.edu is a member of the United States Distance Learning Association.

The USDLA is a non-profit association formed in 1987 and is located in Boston, Massachusetts. USDLA promotes the development and application of distance learning for education and training and serves the needs of the distance learning community by providing advocacy, information, networking and opportunity. Distance learning and training constituencies served include pre-k-12 education, higher and continuing education, home schooling as well as business, corporate, military, government and telehealth markets. The USDLA trademarked logo is the recognized worldwide symbol of dedicated professionals committed to the distance learning industry.

To learn more, visit the USDLA: http://www.usdla.org