Advancing quality in higher education worldwide.
IOQA provides a global accreditation framework focused on educational quality, peer review, student outcomes and continuous institutional improvement.
Quality accreditation built around improvement, trust and responsibility.
IOQA brings together accreditation, peer review and quality practices that support stronger institutions and better educational outcomes.
The Vision
Continuous improvement of humanity through stronger quality practices.
The Mission
Accelerating development in the international society through quality tools.
The Values
Ethics, quality and social responsibility.
Quality standards built around what students experience and learn.
IOQA focuses on accreditation for applied and natural science, computing, engineering and engineering technology programs.
Program accreditation
We accredit college and university programs in applied and natural science, computing, engineering and engineering technology at the associate, bachelor and master degree levels.
Confidence in quality
With IOQA accreditation, students, employers and society can be confident that a program meets quality standards designed to prepare graduates for a global workforce.
A decade of standards
IOQA states that its standards have played a fundamental role for more than 10 years and have become a basis of quality across more than 15 disciplines worldwide.
Peer-review criteria
Criteria developed by technical professionals focus on what students experience and learn, with voluntary peer review intended to add value to technical academic programs.
Expert participation
More than 2,200 experts from industry, academia and government support quality assurance activities as evaluators, commissioners, board members and advisors.
Global footprint
IOQA accredits 1,152 programs at 776 colleges and universities in 12 countries.
Associate, bachelor and master level accreditation.
IOQA distinguishes institutional accreditation from specialized or programmatic accreditation and works through three technical accreditation commissions.