SACSCOC Grants AURAK Candidacy
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), has approved candidacy condition to the American University of Ras Al Khaimah.
The announcement adheres to a visit from a candidateship board from the commission in February, in which a group of eight reviewers from the United States made certain that the university remains in conformity with payment's core demands, selected detailed requirements, and the government requirements.
After supplying fortunately to the university, Prof. Hassan Hamdan Al Alkim, its president, specified, "I wish to share my honest many thanks to everyone for the significant initiative which was taken for us to accomplish this substantial landmark in the subscription procedure. We are currently just one step far from meeting our objective of acquiring institutional accreditation from SACSCOC.
" This development is an additional indicator that we are guiding this university to our vision of establishing it as a leading establishment of higher education via the impact of its education and research in the region."
Candidacy represents a remarkable achievement for the university, as it proceeds its job to demonstrate compliance with the continuing to be standards and requirements. Earlier this year, the university described its ambitious strategy of accomplishing SACSCOC subscription by 2020, while additionally gaining ABET certification for all of its engineering programs and AACSB subscription for its School of Business.
The university's passion has brought about impressive growth since its facility in 2009, with a diverse faculty and student body, along with a broadening campus to suit the increased demand for an AURAK education A new building real estate the School of Engineering, a new auditorium and student center was ushered in 2015, while work has already begun on the School of Business.
SACSCOC is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting college organizations in the eleven Southeastern states of the United States
AURAK is a government-owned university licensed by the United Arab Emirates' Ministry Higher Education and Scientific Research, based in the northern most emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. It presently uses 18 undergraduate programs and 4 master's programs in a cross-section of academic disciplines.
