Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
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Abbreviation | M.S.A.S.C. or M.S.A. |
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Formation | 1887 |
Legal status | Association |
Purpose | Educational Accreditation |
Headquarters | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Region served | Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands |
Board President | John Cavanaugh |
Main organ | Board of Trustees |
Website | msa-cess.org/ |
The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (Middle States Association or MSA) is a voluntary, peer-based, non-profit association that performs peer evaluation and regional accreditation of public and private schools in the Mid-Atlantic United States and certain foreign institutions of American origin. The MSA has until at least 2013 comprised three separate commissions:
- Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE)
- Middle States Commission on Elementary Schools (MSCES)
- Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools (MSCSS)
The MSCES and the MSCSS operate together as an organization sometimes known as the MSA-CESS. The accreditation of post-secondary schools by the MSCSS is limited to those that do not confer degrees or offer technical programs.[1]
MSCHE's headquarters are in Center City, Philadelphia.[2]
Region and scope[]
The "Middle States Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools" (M.S.A.-C.E.S.S.) as of 2021 accredits "nearly" 2600 public and private schools and school systems throughout the United States and in more than 100 countries around the world.[3]
MSA used to accredit colleges and universities through its higher education commission. In 2013, that commission — the Middle States Commission on Higher Education — became a legally separate entity.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Regional and National Institutional Accrediting Agencies. U.S. Department of Education, "College Accreditation in the United States". Retrieved 9 April 2018
- ^ Home page. Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. Retrieved on May 12, 2015. "200 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19104"
- ^ MSA-CESS website, retrieved August 15, 2021.
External links[]
- School accreditors
- College and university associations and consortia in the United States
- Educational organizations based in the United States