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The Oregon Justice Department has ordered Penn Foster College to refund a former student's tuition and to change its claim about accreditation, The Oregonian reported. The former student complained to the department when Portland Community College declined to accept credit he had earned at Penn Foster and told him that the credit was from a national accreditor and that Portland Community College only accepted regionally accredited transfer credits. The former student said that this was inconsistent with what Penn Foster told him, and the agency agreed. Penn Foster denies wrongdoing but did agree to the settlement.
On the college's website today, the statement about accreditation states explicitly that credit may not transfer in all cases. “Penn Foster College is nationally accredited, and our college graduates have been able to gain employment and transfer credits to other colleges and universities upon completion of our degree programs,” the statement says. “However, these decisions are up to the discretion of the colleges, universities or individual employers, and students should check with those entities to determine if they will be able to transfer credits or use their degree in a satisfactory capacity. No form of accreditation guarantees that any learning institution will accept credits from any school as transfer credits.”
