The Hechinger Report
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Accreditation

Regional accrediting agencies oversee whether colleges are following educational and financial standards. If a college is not, accrediting agencies have a range of adverse actions they can take.

Explore whether an institution has received a warning, been put on probation, sought approval for closure — or whether it had a probation or warning status lifted.

The table below shows accreditation actions from 2019 to the present.

Recent accreditation actions at four-year degree-granting institutions

Click on a college below to learn more about the institution’s history of accreditation actions. You can also check out accreditation documents in the source links.

Coverage and limitations