Our firm has experience working with the accrediting criteria of most regional and national agencies recognized by the U.S. Department of Education for Title IV purposes. If your agency is listed below, and you need assistance, please feel free to call and discuss how we may help. We have assisted numerous schools and colleges in changing to accrediting commissions that better meet their needs.
Outlined below is a partial list of accrediting agencies whose accreditation enables the institutions they accredit to establish eligibility to participate in the Federal student financial assistance programs administered by the Department under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 as amended. These are most of the agencies that accept for-profit institutions.
Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
(Formerly NACAOM)
Title IV Note: Only freestanding schools or colleges of acupuncture or Oriental medicine may use accreditation by this agency to establish eligibility to participate in Title IV programs.
Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES)
Title IV Note: Only freestanding allied health education schools may use accreditation by this agency to establish eligibility to participate in Title IV programs.
Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology (ACCSCT)*
Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training (ACCET)
Title IV Note: Only those institutions classified by this agency as "vocational" may use accreditation by this agency to establish eligibility to participate in Title IV programs.
Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS)
Title IV Note: The only institutions pre-accredited by this agency that may use that pre-accreditation to establish eligibility to participate in Title IV programs are private, non-profit junior and senior colleges of business and private, non-profit freestanding institutions offering only graduate business and business-related programs at the master's degree level.
Council on Occupational Education, Commission (Formerly SACS-COEI)*
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Higher Education *
National Accrediting Commission of Cosmetology Arts and Sciences
New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Commission on Institutions of Higher Education *
New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Commission on Technical and Career institutions *
Title IV Note: Any public vocational/technical schools accredited by this agency that offer non-degree, postsecondary education and that wish to use that accreditation to establish eligibility to participate in Title IV programs must be accredited by the agency as offering education through the 13th and/or 14th grade level.
North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Institutions of Higher Education*
North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Schools*
Title IV Note: Only those public vocational/technical schools accredited by this agency that offer non-degree, postsecondary education may use that accreditation to establish eligibility to participate in Title IV programs.
Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges, Commission on Colleges*
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges*
Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges*
Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Accrediting Commission for Schools*
Title IV Note: Only adult and postsecondary schools accredited by this agency that offer postsecondary programs below the degree level may use accreditation by this agency to establish eligibility to participate in Title IV programs.
Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities*
(*) Any public or private non-profit institutions accredited by this agency for the purpose of establishing eligibility to participate in Title IV programs may use pre-accreditation status as an alternative to full accreditation. Please note that pre-accreditation is not available as an option for establishing such eligibility by a for-profit institution accredited by this agency.
NOTE: "Freestanding" is defined as not part of a larger college or university that is accredited by a regional accrediting agency or another nationally recognized institutional accrediting agency. In general, a freestanding institution is a separate single-purpose institution that offers a specialized program of study in a particular field.
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