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Accreditation of Universities in the USA

  1. Middle States (Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania)
  2. New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont)
  3. North Central (Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming)
  4. Northwest (Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington state)
  5. Southern (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia)
  6. Western (California and Hawaii)


The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) is a private organization that coordinates the regional accrediting organizations, as well as the accrediting organizations in specific academic subjects.

The federal government in the USA plays a negligible roll in accreditation, mostly in The Office of Postsecondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education.   The U.S. Department of Education has a database of nationally recognized accrediting agencies by subject area.