North Central University

 HISTORY 

The Road to Becoming a Premier Online Graduate University 

It is said that President James A. Garfield once depicted the perfect University as "[a prestigious teacher] toward one side of a log and an understudy on the other." Founded in 1996, Northcentral University supplanted the nineteenth century log with the 21st-century Internet to associate workforce to inspired understudies looking for a quality training that is open, professionally pertinent and relevant in today's various worldwide society. 

Propelled by the Oxford Learning Model, Northcentral embraced a balanced showing model, joining forces one understudy with one employee in every course. Like the log thought, the objective was to make a more customized learning background where every understudy has the advantage of working specifically with a specialist employee who can go down his or her significant information and encounters. 

In 2003, Northcentral University was licensed by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, and stays authorize right up 'til the present time. Also, Northcentral's business programs in the School of Business and Technology Management are certify by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP). NCU was one of the first online colleges to have ACBSP accreditation crosswise over bachelor's, expert's and doctoral degree programs. 

In 2009, Northcentral University got accreditation from the United States Department of Education to take an interest in Title IV Financial Aid Programs. While focused on giving aggressively estimated degree programs, NCU needed to guarantee that all understudies have the chance to learn without agonizing over paying for their instruction out-of-pocket. NCU understudies can apply for all relevant government understudy help projects, including Unsubsidized Federal Stafford credits, Subsidized Federal Stafford advances, Federal PLUS (Parent) advances and Federal Pell Grants. 

Late Enhancements and Achievements 

With every passing year, Northcentral keeps on gaining ground in satisfying its Mission and understanding its Vision in turning into a worldwide pioneer in giving uncommon access to U.S. territorially certify advanced education. 

Northcentral University offers a quickened track alternatives for its MBA and MEd programs. 

The Marriage and Family Therapy expert's (MA) and doctoral (PhD) degree programs at NCU were intended to take after the Educational Guidelines of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). Furthermore, the Master of Arts system in MFT was the first program that uses separation training to be granted accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE). 

Northcentral University is a Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) for Project Management Institute (PMI)® and Project Management courses can be perceived for scholastic credit. 

Northcentral's Applied Computer Science, Computer Information Security, and Management Information Systems majors can be perceived by the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS). 

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has recognized that NCU's Bachelor of Business Administration/Human Resources Management specialization and its Master of Business Administration/Human Resources Management specialization completely adjust to SHRM's HR Curriculum Guidebook and Templates, which were created by SHRM to characterize the base HR content territories that ought to be concentrated on by HR understudies at the undergrad and graduate levels. 

In 2013, nine PK-12 specializations in the Master of Education (MEd) system got five year beginning accreditation through the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC), including the PK-12 Principal Leadership specialization, which was affirmed by the Arizona Department of Education and is the School of Education's first affirmation readiness specialization