Is ACQUIN accreditation the equivalent of RA?

Thought I would post this in its own thread. Charisma U has German ACQUIN accreditation and recently got TRACS candidacy.

Tuition is 255 per credit hour at the doctoral level. Approx $15,300 for a 60 cr PhD. Reasonable if they become TRACS accredited.

They have a PsyD. I wonder how ACQUIN would be received by a US state Psychology Board for licensure (foreign school the equivalent of RA???). TRACS is a known commodity in terms of the fact that it is US based and probably wouldn't work. But what about ACQUIN (and whatever Caribbean recognition they have)?

 

I cannot answer all your questions but regarding your headline

Is ACQUIN accreditation the equivalent of RA?

In German ACQUIN is one of the state-authorized institutions that confer the label state accredited to Bachelor/Master/Doctorate study programs of German institutions of higher education. So it is definately the real deal.

The Charisma thing is the only case that I'm aware of where a German accreditor evaluates a foreign Institution so I'm not sure about the meaning.
Also I never really understood the difference between RA and NA, in Germany there is just one thing, state-accredited.

 

Concordia Ukraine has FIBAA accreditation. Of course, it is also licensed in Ukraine and has state accreditation too.

 

Thanks. That would seem to give it the equivalent of Regional Accreditation assuming the PsyD is covered under it. That means ensuring the structure of the PsyD parallels the US state someone would want to practice in and probably getting a foreign credential evaluation.

 

It is available to be understood.

In the US, the higher education industry evolved as a self-regulating one. State licensing is, for the most part, perfunctory. And even though some states are more thorough than others, their recognition is not what matters.

Because these accrediting agencies arose from the member schools, and because there was always room for more (since they were not government-regulated), other institutional accrediting agencies evolved. And because the US Department of Education is tasked with maintaining a list of recognized accrediting agencies (to accredit schools for the purposes of federal financial aid), these agencies got in. But it is the regionals who have always mattered most, and they still do.

I think the roots of this are two-fold. One--the one we often talk about--is that education is not specified in the Constitution. Thus, it is said, it is left to the states. And that seems to be true. But not complete.

I think the other factor is that higher education in the United States started and evolved long before there was a United States. Harvard started in 1636, IIRC. (No, I wasn't present.) And so things went.