Each of the professional schools under the Argosy systems are stand alone programs under the Argosy umbrella. Most of the Professional Schools are APA accredited and the ones that are not is mostly due to being newer schools in the Argosy System. It does not help promote the field of psychology when people base information on hearsay. A small group of students filed a class action lawsuit three or four years ago against the Texas School of Professional Psychology with media reports and a report on Dateline. Now everyone based on the lawsuit of these 15 students has developed a slanderous negative impression of all of the professional schools under the Argosy system. This is so unfair to the other programs, students, faculty and others attending all of the professional schools under the Argosy System.
Every program has had students who were unhappy for whatever reason and students come and go as well as faculty who are unhappy come and go but normally it does not get publicized in the media. I attend one of the professional schools under the Argosy system and it is far from being a diploma mill. Our match rate from prior years since 2008 when we had our first three graduates has been 84%. Our admission classes ranges from 15-30 students per year and the most recent class had 10 students. To my knowledge all of our graduates the past three years have passed the EPPP and are now licensed. My guess from looking at the CRP's in the library that there are around 30 students who have graduated the last four years.
As is the case with any new program development, the school I attend went through changes in the early years but now it has a solid foundation and is on track to become APA accredited..
The tuition is high but most of us have student loans. Some have funding from other sources, especially many of the minority students that they do not have to pay back. Some of the students are in the Army reserves or active military and receive funding from the military for their program. I do not know how anybody can say that a program is low quality due to having a high tuition as from my perspective it is often the other way around. Programs that provide waivers and TA and RA is somehow given credibility that these are high quality programs. Argosy has students who receive tuition waivers, and they are TA and RA as well, as we have undergraduate psychology and education programs and upper level students frequently teach assessment lab sections.
Most of the students in my cohort already had MS degrees from major universities including OU, UT, SMU, TAMU, UH, University of Colorado, UTSW, TT, OSU, LSU, University of Illinois, Depaul University, Northwestern University and University of Arkansas, etc... They have completed MS research oriented programs and now they primarily want the specific clinical psychology training to further their career as a licensed clinical psychologists.