How do you become an educational institution? Or what makes a company an educational institution?
For instance business trade schools. where you get a certificate or similar, they are definetly educational institutions but what governs this if anything to say, “your company is an educational institution”? or is it just one because you are educating people?
so what you are saying is training and teacing is all it takes. and who considers it like you say?
An educational institution is a school. There must be some sort of training, classes going on to be considered one. A “company” is not an educational instiution even if they deal with educational products.
Generally, in the US, each state grants authorization for an educational institution to operate there. That will be true both for degree-granting colleges, and for trade schools that offer non-degree programs and certificates. The state will do some minimal checking to see that the school is operating in good faith and providing the services they promise in return for tuition and fees. They don’t get much into judging the quality of the education they offer (that’s what accreditation is for).
An educational institution can be either a for-profit company (like University of Phoenix or Pima Medical Institute) or nonprofit (like the University of California or Cogswell Polytechnic College). For-profit companies can can be both authorized and accredited as educational institutions–that’s not a determining factor.
Every state is going to have different procedures and requirements for authorizing educational institutions. For example, in Washington, the Higher Education Coordinating Board authorizes degree-granting colleges; Washington schools that offer non-degree vocational training may be authorized by either the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, the Department of Licensing, or a couple of other agencies, depending on the content of the program. Some states have higher standards than others. According to the State of Oregon’s Office of Degree Authorization, “Idaho, Hawaii, Montana, Alabama, Wyoming, Mississippi and California have either no meaningful standards, excessive loopholes or poor enforcement owing to local policy or insufficient staff. Degrees issued by unaccredited private colleges in Alabama, Idaho, Mississippi or Wyoming should be evaluated with great caution. In particular, Mississippi has no oversight standards.” So if someone wants to start a diploma mill, they should move to Mississippi!