The university is among a handful of institutions in the GCC and MENA Region to achieve U.S accreditation.
The American University of Bahrain (AUBH) has announced that it has received U.S. accreditation through the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC), one of the seven best known accrediting agencies in the USA!
The Commission awarded AUBH accreditation for upholding the highest international academic standards for educational quality and effectiveness. Accreditation is a voluntary process and is unique to the United States, where higher education is not directly regulated by the government. Accreditation supports universities in improving existing processes and helps affirm a “culture of evidence” at AUBH.
In 2019, Elm Education, a Bahrain-based education investment fund established by Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company (Mumtalakat), launched AUBH as the Kingdom’s first comprehensive, purpose-built, co-educational university based on the American model.
AUBH is licensed by the Higher Education Council of the Ministry of Education in Bahrain, the national regulator for the Kingdom’s Higher Education Institutions, and is a CIQG Member of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) in the U.S. AUBH has also recently achieved official recognition by the Ministry of Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Bradley Cook, AUBH President commented: “With quality assurance as a strategic priority, we are very proud to be accredited by WSCUC. This accreditation will facilitate and promote scientific, cultural, and student exchanges as well as attract international students to study in Bahrain. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to share the same accreditor as some of the best universities in the U.S.”
This U.S. regional accreditation, recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), holds the highest level of quality assurance at the institutional level for higher education. The accreditation process usually takes five years and is guided by 16 rigorous eligibility criteria. Those include a “Seeking Accreditation Visit” (SAV), during which an evaluation team flew to Bahrain and visited the university to determine whether it has met the expected academic standards and inspect the state-of-the-art campus, which was built with U.S. accreditation in mind by U.S. architect, Ayers Saint Gross
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