Accreditation
Alcorn State University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award the associate, baccalaureate, master’s, education specialist and doctorate degrees.
Accreditations and Memberships
Alcorn State University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award the associate, baccalaureate, master’s, education specialist and doctorate degrees. Contact the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500 for questions about the accreditation of Alcorn State University.
Alcorn is accredited by the following:
- Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN)
- Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP)
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering (ATMAE)
- Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP)
- Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)
- National Association of Schools of Music (NASM)
The University also holds membership in the following organizations:
- American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)
- American Association of Colleges of Nursing
- American Council on Education (ACE)
- American Library Association (ALA)
- American Public Relations Association
- Association of Departments of English (ADE)
- Association of Institutional Research (AIR)
- Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU)
- Association of State Colleges and Universities (AACU)
- College Language Association (CLA)
- Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)
- Council on Co-op College Projects
- Family Consumer Sciences Education Association (FCSEA)
- Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
- National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO)
- National Association of Dramatic and Speech Arts
- National Association of Schools of Music (NASM)
- National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC)
- National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
- National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC)
- National Commission on Accrediting
- National League for Nursing
- Organization for Associate Degree Nursing
- Southern Association of College and University Business Officers (SACUBO)
- Southern Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admission Council (SACRAO)
- Southern Regional Education Board, Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing
- Southern Regional Honors Council (SRHC)