Accreditation
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)
UT Dallas is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS COC). This accreditation serves as a "gold standard" for universities - a recognition that the university meets certain criteria most often associated with effective universities that exhibit a high degree of institutional effectiveness and integrity. The SACS Reaffirmation Process can seem fairly simple on the surface. The specifically required submissions include a Compliance Certification for each of the Principles of Accreditation, along with documentation in support of the level of compliance, and a Quality Enhancement Program (QEP) proposal. That simplistic view of the process belies thousands of hours of intensive work. Such a view also ignores the very real importance of the process: The SACS reaffirmation process requires that an institution examine every aspect of its operation.
The Compliance Certification Reports of The University of Texas at Dallas for the SACS are available for your review. To access the primary document, point your browser to http://sacs.utdallas.edu/ccrnav
UT Dallas Academic Program Review
UT Dallas' Policy Memorandum 94-III.24-63, Academic Program Review, governs the periodic review of academic programs and charges the review team to provide an assessment of the goals, plans, staffing, resources, existing and potential strengths, etc., of the unit, and those areas needing improvement. The process is peer review oriented and includes a review team which incorporates both internal and external members. Typically, the review team is composed of at least three individuals from other institutions that have programs similar to those of the unit under review and at least two members from the UT Dallas faculty and a member of the program review committee who is not affiliated with the program to be reviewed. One member of the review team, usually not affiliated with UT Dallas, is designated team chair by the provost at the time the team is constituted. The review team evaluates the unit as requested by a written charge prepared by the provost after consultation with the PRC. The charge specifically asks the review team to [e]valuate the quality, the effectiveness, and the efficiency of the undergraduate and graduate curricula and the delivery of instruction, and to evaluate the appropriateness of it assessment plans and student learning outcomes
Professional Accreditation
The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)
ABET is the professional accrediting organization that accredits undergraduate engineering programs. UT Dallas has four engineering and computer science undergraduate programs that are ABET accredited: electrical engineering, telecommunications engineering, software engineering, and computer science.
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB)
The UT Dallas School of Management (SOM) has been granted full accreditation since 2002 of all its programs by the board of directors of AACSB. AACSB is a nonprofit organization consisting of more than eight hundred educational organizations and corporations devoted to the promotion and improvement of higher education in business administration and management.
Project Management Institute (PMI) Global Accreditation Center
The project management certificate program in UT Dallas’ SOM has become one of only five such programs in the world to receive PMI accreditation (announced September 10, 2005)
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
Two programs in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), the doctorate in audiology (Au.D.) and the M.S. in communication disorders, are accredited by ASHA. ASHA is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 123,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists.
The American Chemical Society (ACS)
The ACS Committee on Professional Training evaluates and reevaluates undergraduate chemistry programs with the objective of improving the standards and quality of chemistry education in America. In 2001, the UT Dallas undergraduate (B.S.) chemistry program was authorized by ACS to certify its graduates. Every five years, programs must reapply, and the chemistry program has recently submitted its five-year report as part of its authorization renewal process.
The National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA)
The Master of Public Affairs in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS) received accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration in 2004.
Page last updated on May 14, 2009 .
