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Accreditation Standards

Assurance of Learning Standards

16: Bachelor’s or undergraduate level degree: Knowledge and skills.  Adapting expectations to the school’s mission and cultural circumstances, the school specifies learning goals and demonstrates achievement of learning goals for key general, management-specific, and/or appropriate discipline-specific knowledge and skills that its students achieve in each undergraduate degree program. [UNDERGRADUATE LEARNING GOALS]

Basis for judgment:

  • For each undergraduate degree program the school defines learning goals for key general, management-specific, and/or appropriate discipline-specific knowledge and skills identified by the school.
  • For each undergraduate degree program the school demonstrates that students meet the learning goals.  Or, if assessment demonstrates that learning goals are not being met, the school has instituted efforts to eliminate the discrepancy.
  • The school is responsible for the quality of learning counted toward satisfying degree requirements regardless of where or how it takes place.

Guidance for Documentation:

  • Define the learning goals for each undergraduate degree program—this should include both conceptual and operational definitions.
  • Show that students meet all of the learning goals for undergraduate degree programs.  Or, if assessment demonstrates that learning goals are not being met, describe efforts that have been instituted to eliminate the discrepancy.