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This is NOT a regional accreditation body.
Without being regionally accredited, I would suspect a student would have major difficulties transferring any credits they received from UO People.
Okay I know I'm late, like very.
BUT, while they are working on their regional accreditation, they do have agreements with several different schools to accept their credits.
https://www.nyu.edu/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/how-to-apply/transfer-applicants/articulation-agreements.html
I am able to find forum posts of other universities accepting either all/partial credits in the US, but I can't verify those so won't bother.
Some other institutions that recognize them are: https://www.uopeople.edu/about/partners/academic-partnerships/
Most notably is probably Mcgill and University of Edinburg. So while it's not great not being accredited regionally, it might be the perfect solution for some folks.
UO People claims it. With regard to University of Edinburg, as of the post in 2019 ZERO UO PEOPLE STUDENTS HAVE DONE IT. Its not a partnership between the UO People and University of Edinburg, is apparently the same process any non-student can apply to get knowledge recognized as credits.
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Here's the relevant part:
The more I look into UO People the more scammy it looks.
Berkely is no longer listed I will say, as for Edinburgh, Edinburgh announced their partnership so it is official.
https://www.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/atoms/files/partnership_opens_doors_for_students_from_adverse_backgrounds_01.11.2017.pdf
And as part of the agreement this gentlemen joined the UOpeople board.
https://www.uopeople.edu/about/leadership-team/sir-timothy-oshea/
So even with that post, all the people they claim they are partnered with, have released press releases that they do in fact have a partnership. If their courses were not up to snuff, I would hope those colleges would have taken those down and made a statement by now and had their names removed from the website. Again, that's the hope.
Honestly now I'm curious how many of the leadership team have active roles, because they have a pretty star studded cast. If people from top colleges are even semi regularly auditing courses that's a big security. But it could be they're on a yearly mailing list and they forget their name is on the UOpeople website for most of the year.
But I suppose the real test will be in the next couple years as they currently have an open application to get regionally accredited. So fingers crossed that either they get accepted, or the regional accreditation office rips them a new one and sends them spiraling into bankruptcy if they are scammy. As either way that should be the end of UOpeople drama one way or another.
I apparently have nothing to do but look into UOPeople, so I emailed a few of their partners to ask if they should still be listed on the website. If I get a "WTF Who are those people" as a response I'll let you know!