Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities


The Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities is a private, voluntary, non-profit and non-stock corporation which was registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines. It is a service organization which accredits academic programs which meet commonly accepted standards of quality education.
PAASCU is an accrediting body composed of different private educational institutions that stamp other private schools with a quality standard attained with regard to their programs.

History

PAASCU was established in November 5, 1957 as a private, voluntary, non-profit and non-stock corporation. The Bureau of Education and Culture formally endorsed PAASCU as an accrediting agency in November 1967.
In 1977 the Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines was established and one of its three founding members is PAASCU.
In 1991 the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education was established and one of its founding members is the PAASCU. The INQAAHE is an international association of over 200 organizations that are active in theory and practice of quality assurance higher education.
PAASCU is also one of the founding member of the Asia-Pacific Quality Network. The APQN has been established with the purpose of satisfying the needs of quality assurance agencies in higher education.

Accredited Programs by PAASCU

These are the following programs that are accredited by PAASCU:
No.Program
1Accountancy
2Agriculture
3Basic Medical Education
4Business
5Computer Science
● Information Technology
● Information Management
● Information Systems
6Criminal justice
7Education
● Elementary
● Secondary
8Engineering
● Civil Engineering
● Chemical Engineering
● Computer Engineering
● Electrical Engineering
● Electronics and Communications Engineering
● Industrial Engineering
● Manufacturing Engineering and Management
● Mechanical Engineering

No.Program
9Entrepreneurship
10Graduate Education
● Arts and Sciences
● Business Administration
● Education
● Nursing
● Public Health
11Hospitality Management
12Interior Design
13Liberal Arts
14Medical Technology
15Nursing
16Nutrition and Dietetics
17Occupational Therapy
18Pharmacy
19Radiologic Technology
20Social Work
21Tourism

Standards

PAASCU judges an institution not by comparison with other institutions but primarily by the degree to which each institution's own purposes are matched by actual practice in the various areas being evaluated. Thus, a school is judged on the basis of the "total pattern" presented by it.