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Alabama non-degree school bonds.
$200 flat.
A non-degree proprietary school in Alabama — a vocational, trade, or technical school that does not grant degrees — files a $20,000 license bond with the Alabama Community College System under Ala. Code §16-46-5. Ours is $200 flat — the price you see is the checkout price — and it issues fast.
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Three steps. One sitting.
License bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here is the entire process:
Apply online
School details and an effective date. That is the application — no financials, no credit section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase.
File with ACCS
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with your non-degree school license application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
The Alabama Community College System (ACCS) licenses private postsecondary schools, and Ala. Code §16-46-5 conditions the license on a surety bond sized to the school’s scope. For a non-degree institution — a vocational, trade, or technical school that does not award degrees — that bond is $20,000.
The bond is a student-protection guarantee: it protects students who suffer loss from the school’s fraud, misrepresentation, or failure to deliver the instruction they paid for. It is a three-party arrangement — you (the principal), the surety, and the State of Alabama through ACCS, with students as the protected parties.
A degree-granting school files a larger $50,000 bond under the same statute; this $20,000 figure is the non-degree tier. If the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety — schools that deliver the training students paid for treat the bond as a routine licensing formality.
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$200 flat, no credit review, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.