In today’s world where enrollments are falling and tuition fees are increasing, many schools are looking for competitive advantage to attract students. One of the initiative schools have undertaken is to achieve accreditation from various agencies around the world. Higher education has seen tremendous growth around the world as it is seen as a ticket to achieve financial security by securing employment or becoming an entrepreneur. So it becomes imperative from the public policy stand point that schools/universities are delivering the education they promise and deliver. Also from a student perspective who invests time and money to make sure they are receiving and a quality education that will amount to employment or education which will help them start a business. Also, governments around the world have undertaken initiative to monitor quality of education in various ways from education department approvals, oversight, funding to accreditation. Private organizations tend to  focus on programmatic accreditation based on discipline and or programs. Educational institutions seek accreditation to validate their institution and/or programs by peer reviewers. Accreditation may be required by the government rules and regulation to meet their charter or components like individual schools and/or divisions search for quality assurance.

This paper addresses accreditations around the world and its benefits so this will be a precursor presentation to have a dialogue with our peers.