Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
AbbreviationMSA-CESS
Formation1887
Legal statusAssociation
PurposeEducational accreditation
HeadquartersPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Region served
The United States and over 100 countries world-wide
Main organ
Board of Trustees
Websitemsa-cess.org

The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, also referred to as Middle States Association or MSA, is a voluntary, peer-based, Philadelphia-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 association includes three separate commissions:

The higher education commission, MSCHE, and the other two commissions now operate independently. 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]

  1. ^ Regional and National Institutional Accrediting Agencies. U.S. Department of Education, "College Accreditation in the United States". Retrieved 9 April 2018

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