Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM) is the accrediting agency recognized by the Department of Education for the accreditation and pre-accreditation (“Candidacy”) throughout the United States of professional non-degree, master degree and doctoral degree programs, in the field of acupuncture and/or Oriental medicines. The advantages of accreditation are unlimited : attract more students, improve program performance and grow the institution, gain government student loan program eligibility, recruit international students, etc.
The Accreditation standards sets a high bar to ensure the quality of school aspects, such as academic, administration , governance, student service, facility, evaluation and assessment. We offer consulting services in self-study report, site visit compliance, curriculum development, and the fields covering 14 standards from ACAOM. They are from governance to finance, from classroom design to faculty development, from student service to program outcome. The accreditation process usually lasts years. It is time consuming but worthy.