Authorization
Currently, Canada has no national Educational accreditation system. Instead, the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education, is responsible for higher education in British Columbia.
In addition to fulfilling the provincial charter, a university’s membership with the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) can be considered the de facto accreditation for Canadian universities, but University Canada West is a for-profit university; and therefore, it does not qualify for AUCC membership.
The University Canada West MBA is not accredited by any of the three biggest business school accreditation bodies. The three major accrediting bodies in there are the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), which accredits research universities, the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP), which accredits universities and colleges, and the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE),all of which also accredit schools outside the US.
The Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials (CICIC), a unit of the Council of Ministers of Education of Canada (CMEC), identifies University Canada West on their “list of recognized and authorized postsecondary institutions” that (CICIC) claims to be “the only authoritative list of all postsecondary institutions (including ACCC's and AUCC's member institutions) in one web site that are recognized by the competent jurisdictional authorities.”
University Canada West has been approved by the British Columbia Education Quality Assurance program as well as the Degree Quality Assessment Board of British Columbia.
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