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The accreditation requirements, or standards, for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) are outlined in The Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement<\/a><\/em>. The Principles<\/em> include fourteen sections, with seventy-three principles and standards covering all aspects of the university. For our 2026 Reaffirmation of Accreditation, SACSCOC approved MTSU for Differentiated Review, a streamlined reaffirmation process that requires MTSU to demonstrate compliance with 40 standards rather than all those required by The Principles of Accreditation<\/em>.

Explore the Principles of Accreditation<\/em> Sections below for a snapshot of MTSU’s compliance with the Principles and Standards included in the Differentiated Review Process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Administration & Organization<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
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Faculty
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Student Achievement
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Educational Program Structure & Content
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Section 10:
Educational Policies, Procedures, and Practices
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Academic and Student Support Services
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Financial and Physical Resources
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Section 14:
Transparency and Institutional Representation
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The accreditation requirements, or standards, for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) are outlined in The Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement. The Principles include fourteen sections, with seventy-three principles and standards covering all aspects of the university. For our 2026 Reaffirmation of Accreditation, SACSCOC approved MTSU for Differentiated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-275","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/sacscoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/sacscoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/sacscoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/sacscoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/sacscoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/sacscoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/sacscoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/sacscoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}