Accreditation

 

What is Accreditation?
Accreditation is a distinction granted to any institution meeting or exceeding the stated criteria of educational quality. The purposes of accreditation include:

• Assess and enhance the educational quality of an institution.
• Assure consistency in institutional operations.
• Promote institutional improvement.
• Provide for public accountability.

Why is it important to you?
Accreditation affects you by providing for the responsibility of an institution and assuring prospective and current students of the following:

• It is recognized as a qualified institution of higher learning with approved programs of study that meet recognized academic standards.
• It employs a professional staff.
• It has sufficient facilities and equipment.
• It is a stable and permanent fixture in the educational community.

This school voluntarily undergoes periodic accrediting evaluations by teams of qualified examiners including subject experts and specialists in occupational education and private school administration.

WyoTech, 200 Whitney Place, Fremont, California 94539, has been granted institutional approval from the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education. The Bureau’s approval means that the institution and its operation comply with the standards established under the law for occupational instruction by degree granting private postsecondary educational institutions.

Institutional approval must be renewed every five years and is subject to continuing review.

WyoTech is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology, Arlington, Virginia and is thereby eligible to participate in US Department of Education Title IV Student Loan Programs. Documentation of national accreditation, state approval and other licenses are available from the President’s Office.

CERTIFICATIONS AND APPROVALS
• The Applied Automotive Technology program has been evaluated by the National Automotive
Technicians Education Foundation, Inc. (“NATEF”) and approved as an Automotive Service
Excellence (“ASE”) Master Certified Automotive Training Program.
• Official ASE Test Center.
• The Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration program participates in the ARI
sponsored ICE and NATE Competency Exams program.
• Official EPA Refrigerant Technician Certification Test Center

ENTITLEMENT AGENCIES
• Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
• Employment Development Department (EDD) – California Training Benefits (CTB)
• Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
• Trade Readjustment Act of 1974 (TRA)
• Veterans Education and Benefits Expansion Act of 2001

 

 

ACCREDITING COMMISSION PROCEDURE
WyoTech is recognized by the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training (ACCET) as meeting and maintaining
rigorous standards of quality. It is the mutual goal of ACCET and the School to provide a quality educational training program and a
positive learning experience. When concerns arise, students should make every effort through the School's formal appeals procedure
(detailed above) to reach a fair and reasonable solution.
In the event that a student has exhausted all the options available through the School's procedure, and the concern remains
unresolved, the student has a right, and is encouraged, to take the following steps:
1. Contact ACCET in writing. Complaints received by phone will be logged along with a request for a written follow-up; an initial letter
speeds the process.
2. A letter of complaint must contain the following:
a. The nature of the concern
b. The approximate date(s) the concern occurred
c. The WyoTech individual(s) involved in the concern
d. Copies of important information regarding the concern (facts, not rumors)
e. Evidence demonstrating that the School's complaint procedure was followed prior to contacting ACCET
3. All complaints must be signed.
4. Written complaints must be postmarked no later than 30 days after initial verbal contact with ACCET. The address is:
ACCET, Complaint Administrator
1722 N Street N