Grad Catalog 10 Accreditation

Office of Graduate Studies and Extended Education
McKelvie Hall, 102 W. Rosedale Avenue
West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383
610-436-2943
fax: 610-436-2763
gradstudy@wcupa.edu

Revised March 2010

Accreditation

West Chester University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE), 3624 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104-2680, 215-662-5606. Academic program accreditations include the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (AACME), American Chemical Society (ACS), American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), American Orff Schulwerk Association (AOSA), American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP), Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE), Commission on Accreditation of Dietetic Education (CADE), Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), Council for Accreditation and Related Educational Programs (CACREP), Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH), Committee on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC), Council of Social Work Education (CSWE), Forensic Education Program Accreditation Commission (FEPAC), International Reading Association (IRA), National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), National Environmental Health Science and Protection Accreditation Council (EHAC), and National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), Organization of American Kodaly Educators (OAKE). West Chester University’s professional education programs are accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) to recommend candidates for certification.