Answered by Doug S
Dale. Capella is one of the best and most reputable online schools around. Not only are they known for their rigerous and challenging course work but they are highly regarded by Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies such as Home Depot, WalMart, Target, Johnson and Johnson, Boeing, Microsoft, Northwest Memorial Hospital, US Bank, and Kieser Permenta but they have additional professional or specialized accreditations that go way beyond their regional accreditation. Capella is the ONLY online school that is accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs. Other Minnesota colleges/universities possessing this acceditation are Winona State, St. Cloud State, and Minnesota State U. in Mankato and Moorhead. This accreditation is extremely difficult to get. Also, Capella University was recently recognized at a National Security Agency/Department of Homeland Security Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education. What does this mean? Simply that Capella University offers an education that meets or surpasses the standards that the Federal Government has set forth in educating IT professionals in securing top secret data. Another extremely difficult recognition to achieve. And finally and more to your area of study, Capella University is the only online school that has been recognized by the Society for Human Resource Managers as being allowed to map its educational structure in the HR studies to the SHRM model. You are making a wise choice.