Over the last few decades, the online education has got tremendous popularity among the students all over the world. The main reason for this interest was the flexible time schedule of the online institutions. Now there are thousands of online institutions working around the globe, imparting education in a variety of disciplines. With the mushroom growth of the online educational institutions, the problem of accreditation of the educational credential also came to light. The accrediting agencies do not recognize many of the online institutions as they do not follow the working paradigms set for them by the concerned authorities. But there are some very prestigious online institutions as well which fulfill all the relevant criteria and thought to be the best online educational centres. Capella University is one of them.


Capella University is run by a publicly traded company named Capella Education Company. The company established the university with an ambition to provide online education particularly to adults. As a result, the university focused those students who cannot continue their education due to their odd work schedule which did not allow them to attend any traditional educational institution. Consequently they remain deprived of getting further education and even cross the age limit specified for taking admission in a school or college. With such great ambition, Capella University introduced its educational programmes ranging from associate level to higher educational degrees. These educational programmes are a great feast for the adult learners particularly when they are also employed somewhere. The students can easily access their online classrooms from any location and at any time. Such flexibility of time for class attendance was a blessing for many potential students. Thus Capella University online programmes attracted a large number of students from various backgrounds and geographical regions to the University.

The current registration at Capella University of the online students is 19,900, which is increasing day by day. Capella University is running many career leading educational programmes. Capella University’s psychology department is called ‘Harold Abel School of Psychology’. It has a range of associate, graduate and postgraduate programmes with a range of specializations such as Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, General Psychology etc. The detail of other educational programmes with admission criterion and time schedule is available on the website of the university.

Capella University degrees are recognized by the United States Higher Learning Commission. Capella University has the credit of being the first online university that was awarded the title of charter participant of the Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP) of the NCA. The university is also a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA). Furthermore, Capella's mental health counseling and marital, couple and family counseling/therapy specializations Programme is recognized by the American Counseling Association's Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). Accreditation is the hallmark of Capella University’s degrees. You don’t feel any embarrassment in presenting your testimonials obtained from Capella University at any level and in any organization. The university administration is committed to their motto of imparting the quality education keeping in view the requirements of the modern age.