The Accreditation, Certification and Quality Assurance Institute

The accreditation, certification and quality assurance institute ACQUIN is a registered association with recognized non-profit status. In addition to more than 150 universities in Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Egypt, Mongolia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Lebanon, its members also include scientific professional associations. ACQUIN's goal is to carry out national and cross-university accreditation of Bachelor's and Master's courses in all disciplines in order to ensure the high quality of the courses offered, create market transparency, increase the attractiveness of universities for foreign students and promote the comparability of academic degrees.

NOTE: Germany recently adopted a centralized accreditation system with the German Accreditation Council having overarching responsibility for program accreditation.  During this time of transition, Accreditation.org is listing German degrees accredited under the prior system which have not expired by the accrediting body at the time of our last annual update, in this case, ACQUIN, as well as programs accredited by other groups in Germany and by the GAC itself.  In this transition phase, if you need to clarify the validity of a program accreditation, please check with GAC and the original accrediting body, as well as the university in question.