Accreditation - Renton

Renton Campus

What is Accreditation?
Accreditation is a distinction granted to any institution meeting or exceeding the stated criteria of educational quality. The purposes of accreditation include:

• Assess and enhance the educational quality of an institution.
• Assure consistency in institutional operations.
• Promote institutional improvement.
• Provide for public accountability.

Why is it important to you?
Accreditation affects you by providing for the responsibility of an institution and assuring prospective and current students of the following:

• It is recognized as a qualified institution of higher learning with approved programs of study that meet recognized academic standards.
• It employs a professional staff.
• It has sufficient facilities and equipment.
• It is a stable and permanent fixture in the educational community.

This school voluntarily undergoes periodic accrediting evaluations by teams of qualified examiners including subject experts and specialists in occupational education and private school administration.

Institutional & Programmatic Accreditation

• Accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC).
• The Medical Assistant diploma program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (www.caahep.org) upon the recommendation of the Medical Assisting Education Review Board (MAERB).

Approvals

• Licensed under Chapter 28c.10 RCW; inquiries or complaints regarding this or any other private vocational school may be made to the Work Force Training Board, 128 Tenth Avenue SW, P.O. Box 43105, Olympia, WA 98504-3105, 360.753.5662, email: wtecb@wtb.wa.gov.
• The Electrician program is approved by the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER), www.nccer.org.

* Copies of accreditation, approval and membership documentation are available for inspection at the campus. Please contact the campus president to review this material.

981 Powell Ave., SW Ste. 200
WA 98057