The Sanford-Brown Institute, founded in 1977, is a private,
career-oriented postsecondary learning institution offering
focused, innovative, short-term, program areas in a variety of
health care fields including a medical assistant training
program, a medical billing and coding specialist program, and a
surgical technology training program in Houston, TX.
We are a career-oriented school located in Houston, TX. We are
dedicated to providing innovative career-oriented education. If
you're looking to prepare for an exciting and rewarding career in
today's expanding fields, we can help you get there.
Accreditation/Certification Information Disclosure
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Accreditation is a voluntary process which may be undertaken by
schools to demonstrate compliance with specific standards
designed to indicate a level of education quality. SBI is
institutionally accredited (accredited in total) by the
Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS),
a national accrediting agency recognized by the United States
Department of Education (DOE) and the Council for Higher
Education Accreditation (CHEA). This indicates that SBI
substantially meets or exceeds the stated criteria of education
quality established by ACICS, and approved by the DOE and CHEA.
This recognition of institutional accreditation by ACICS entitles
SBI to offer Title IV Financial Assistance to students who
qualify.
An additional form of accreditation that a school may undertake
to obtain is a specific, individual accreditation of certain
programs (programmatic accreditation). Institutional
accreditation is not the same as or a substitution for
programmatic accreditation. Although programmatic accreditation
is not required for employment in many cases, the existence of
programmatic accreditation is a further indication that a program
meets the standards of the profession, and may therefore
indirectly enhance employment opportunities. Also, in some cases,
programmatic accreditation will allow the graduates of the
accredited program to sit for some credentialing exams
immediately upon graduation without any requirement of work
experience.
*Programs and availability are subject to change
