Ashford University

Ashford University is a revenue driven college headquartered in San Diego, California. It is the biggest instructive holding of Bridgepoint Education. The University offers associate's, bachelor's, and graduate degrees in more than 50 degree programs on grounds and on the web. 

While a greater part of the understudy populace is enlisted in online courses, the University additionally has about 1,000 understudies at their grounds area in Clinton, Iowa. 

Ashford is certify by the WASC Senior College and University Commission and Ashford is also famous for Finance Classes Online.

In 2003, Mount St. Clare College transformed its name to The Franciscan University. In the meantime, the college got regard to offer its first graduate degree on the web. In September 2004, the school changed its name to The Franciscan University of the Prairies so as to dodge disarray with comparatively named schools.

After a time of budgetary trouble, the University was acquired by Bridgepoint Education in March 2005. After the finishing of the deal, the establishment's name was changed to Ashford University. Sponsorship by the Sisters of St. Francis finished.

Despite the fact that the college was territorially authorize by The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, it looked for territorial accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) in 2010. In June 2012, WASC denied beginning accreditation to Ashford University. 

Taking after WASC's foreswearing of accreditation for being "deficient in a few zones, including low quantities of full-time staff, high understudy dropout rates and inquiries regarding scholastic meticulousness," HLC requested extra data from Ashford before an October site visit.

Because of accreditation concerns, the school's trustees delegated Richard Pattenaude as president in October 2012. Pattenaude is a previous chancellor of the University of Maine System who additionally served as executive of the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, a provincial authorizing body. 

In spite of the fact that its starting application to the Western Association of Schools and Colleges was denied in 2010, its second application was acknowledged in 2013.