MBI Yeshiva Accreditation

Accreditation

Present Accreditation

Accredited with Transworld Accrediting Commission since February 2004

Other

MBI Yeshiva is exempt from the requirement of SCHEV certification, as the school's primary purpose is to provide religious training or theological education. See letter of exemption.

What are our Accreditation Limitations?

Though seeking full distance education accreditation, MBI Yeshiva is presently limited from receiving some higher accreditation for several key reasons:

1. Some state higher accreditation is not available to ANY religious or Bible school because of "separation of church and state."

2. Some very high accreditation requires on site student housing, which MBI Yeshiva is not currently planning for the known future.

3. Some very high accreditation requires extensive on site library facilities, which MBI Yeshiva is planning in the long range. Below is the American Library Association's definition of accreditation.

What is Accreditation?

Accreditation is the voluntary, nongovernmental system of evaluation used in North America to protect the public interest and to verify the quality of services rendered by a variety of different types of service organizations and institutions. In the higher education sector, accreditation assures that postsecondary educational institutions and their units, schools, or programs meet appropriate standards of quality and integrity. It also helps institutions and their component units improve the quality of education they offer.

At the postsecondary level there are two types of educational accreditation: institutional and specialized. Institutional accreditation evaluates the institution as a whole. Six regional associations and six national associations restrict their activities to institutions of a particular type.

Specialized accreditation evaluates professional and occupational education at the unit or program level. It is conducted by specialized accrediting bodies generally established by national professional organizations in such fields as journalism, law, medicine, social work, and teacher education.

Specialized accreditation is both a process and a condition. The process entails the assessment of the program's quality and the continued enhancement of the program's operations through compliance with specified professional standards. The condition provides a credential to the public-at-large, which attests that a program has accepted and continues to fulfill its commitment to educational quality.

Both the process and the condition provide benefits to a variety of publics. These publics include students, program faculty, institutional administrators, program graduates, professionals in the field and the consumers of professional services.

The American Library Association is a leading force in accreditation, providing opportunities to practitioners, educators and the public for input into the setting of standards for master's level programs of education in the field of Library and Information Studies (LIS). the Office for Accreditation provides planning and leadership in the national and international accreditation arenas, and is the authoritative source for the profession and public on LIS accreditation.