FAQ: Distance Education Accreditation and COVID-19 Waivers

Today’s students—37 percent of whom are over the age of 25, a quarter of whom are parents, and 60 percent who work—have been increasingly juggling school with home and work responsibilities over the past decade. As such, students before the pandemic had been turning to online education at increasing rates for flexibility.

Now, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges in the spring and fall of 2020 have shifted more courses to remote learning.

Read our FAQ on distance education accreditation and COVID-19 waivers here.