Swiss Center of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education


Swiss Center of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education is an organisation that performs accreditation of higher education institutes in Switzerland. It is part of the Schweizerische Akkreditierungsrat which selects the director of the OAQ. The current Director is Rolf Heusser.
The OAQ is a member of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education and specializes in institutional evaluation.

History

OAQ is a member of the ENQA and part of the founding members of ECA and listed by the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education.

Standard procedure

OAQ's evaluation and accreditation procedures are made out of 3 main steps being Auto-evaluation, External evaluation and Publication.

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