Malik Iqbal

Accreditation criteria for academic standards leads to continuous improvement, transparency and accountability. It further allows institutions to not only evaluate academic programs but also demonstrate the institution's commitment to providing students applied learning experiences.

Accreditation criteria for administrative structures and process is highly critical to ensure the institutions has administrative structures and processes in place to support their mission and sufficient to maintain academic excellence and institutional effectiveness.

Federal guidelines established by U.S. Department of Education are more broad and vague in some respect, however, they allow accreditors to establish additional criteria that requires institutions to demonstrate compliance with both the accreditor standards of accreditation and federal guidelines set by the U.S. Department of Education.

Standards of accreditation are established to help institutions achieve academic excellence, to ensure student success by achieving student outcomes and maintaining eligibility for Title IV funding from the U.S. Department of Education.