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Accreditation Reports: 

Â鶹ÌìÃÀ¹û¶³´«Ã½ submitted its most recent   in March 2025.

Â鶹ÌìÃÀ¹û¶³´«Ã½ submitted its most recent  in September 2018 (for a 2019 reaffirmation decision).

Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP):

Â鶹ÌìÃÀ¹û¶³´«Ã½ submitted its most recent  in March 2025.

Â鶹ÌìÃÀ¹û¶³´«Ã½ submitted its most recent  in April 2019.

Archived Accreditation Reports:

•  March 2015
•  March 2015
•   (for a 2009 reaffirmation decision)
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What is Accreditation?

According to the , "the goal of accreditation is to ensure that education provided by institutions of higher education meets acceptable levels of quality. Accrediting agencies, which are private educational associations of regional or national scope, develop evaluation criteria and conduct peer evaluations to assess whether or not those criteria are met. Institutions and/or programs that request an agency's evaluation and that meet an agency's criteria are then "accredited" by that agency."

From which agencies does Â鶹ÌìÃÀ¹û¶³´«Ã½ seek/hold accreditation?

Â鶹ÌìÃÀ¹û¶³´«Ã½ seeks accreditation both for the institution as a whole and for specific degree programs.  Institutional accreditation is subject to the institution meeting and remaining in compliance with the accrediting standards of the  (SACSCOC), a recognized regional accrediting body in the eleven U.S. Southern states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia) and in Latin America for those institutions of higher education that award associate, baccalaureate, master's or doctoral degrees.  Program specific accreditations are discipline and agency specific.  A complete listing of accreditations held by Â鶹ÌìÃÀ¹û¶³´«Ã½ is available on the  catalog page.  

What are SACSCOC accrediting standards?

The Commission on Colleges bases its accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions and entities on requirements in the . These requirements apply to all institutional programs and services, regardless of location or delivery method.

Additional Resources

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