Accreditation Information of colleges and universities Outside the United States

If you are a student outside the states and want to find out more about college accreditation, contact your country's education department. Each country has its own education standard. For instance, Malaysian universities are govered by the Malaysian Ministry of Education and accredited by LAN. Whilst the qualifications from the Australian universities are within the Australian Qualifications Framework.

If you are thinking of signing up for a degree program which is not based in your home country, then contact your country’s governing body to request for more information. These are some of the countries' education authoritative websites you may browse to get the information on college accreditation:

For Australian degrees: Department of Education, Science and Training.

For NZ degrees, New Zealand Qualification Authority.

And, for UK Degrees, Department of Education and Skills, UK.

It’s always best to do your homework to avoid ending up with a worthless degree. Get advice from the list of Education Departments Outside the US on college accreditation.

If you'd like more information about college accreditation/approval in your country, then contact the respective education authority from this list.

Alternatively, you may want to browse and find out more information about your prospective university or institution of higher education from the online databases made available by the International Association of Universities, the UNESCO-based worldwide association of higher education institutions.

AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

This non-profit-making organization is devoted to the promotion and improvement of higher education in business administration and management. For students outside USA who are very much concerned about the accredition of US and non-US universities they are interested in may find the information from this corporation useful.

AACSB International was set up in 1916. It was founded by well-known, internationally renowned universities, that include Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, New York University, Northwestern University, The Ohio State University, Tulane University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Nebraska, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, The University of Texas, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Yale University. Its membership has now grown outside the US.

Among the non-US universities that are accredited by AACSB are, just to name a few:

• United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), United Arab Emirates
• Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Instituto de Empresa (IE) Business School, Spain
• Seoul National University, Korea, South
• Kuwait University, Kuwait
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chinaand,
  
• Austral University, Argentina

AACSB accredits bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs in business administration and accounting.

AACSB International is located at
777 South Harbour Island Boulevard,Suite 750, Tampa, FL, 33602 U.S.A.
Telephone: 813-769-6500;
Fax: 813-769-6559.

The AACSB International Web site address is
http://www.aacsb.edu

The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools

ACICS, formed in 1912, is a nongovernmental, independent, national, institutional accrediting agency recognized by the US Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

ACICS's mission is to advance educational excellence at independent, nonpublic career schools, colleges, and organizations in the United States and abroad through a deliberate and thorough accreditation process of quality assessment and enhancement as well as ethical business and educational practices whereby ACICS attempts to maintain minimum standards, policies, and procedures leading to institutional effectiveness.

This college accreditation agency is located at:

750 First Street, NE, Suite 980
Washington, DC 20002-4241
TEL: (202) 336-6780 FAX: (202) 842-2593

For further information please browse their website:

http://www.acics.org

Fake DETC that offers college accreditation:

" - A web site called International DETC that recently emerged as part of an unaccredited entity called American Central University, is a fraudulent attempt to hijack the genuine DETC name and school list in order to advance the goals of a diploma mill. The diploma mill is probably operating out of Wyoming and/or Malaysia. DETC is taking legal action to have the fake web site removed." This is a warning issued by the Oregon Office of Degree Authorization.

Why Should I Choose an Accredited College?

When it comes to employment opportunities, job candidates have better chances of being hired compared with another candidate with an unaccredited degree. If you are applying to a post-graduate university, most will only accept accredited degrees too! Furthermore, an accredited university is never a diploma mill. So getting your degree from an accredited university is your safest bet.

Accreditation Information of colleges and universities in the United States

For information regarding college accreditation, an accreditation body must be recognized by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

And these accreditation bodies includes:

Middle State Association of Colleges and Schools

http://www.msache.org

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

http://www.neasc.org

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

http://www.ncacihe.org

Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges

http://www.cocnasc.org

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

http://www.sacs.org

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

http://www.wascweb.org

The Distance Education and Training Council

http://www.detc.org

What Is University Accredtation

"College accreditation" or "university accreditation" is a consistent and periodical review the quality of the education programs offered to students by the higher education institutions. This is an assurance process so as to ensure the standard and the quality of the institution and its programs on offer is maintained and upheld. Such review, appraisal, assessment and examination is undertaken by the education ministry itself or by an appointed and approved agency of the ministry. In the US, however, the accreditation is done by associations of creditors.