Institutional Accreditation and Assessment

Welcome to the Institutional Accreditation and Assessment Office. Just call us IAA for short. Our office assists and facilitates accreditation and assessment activities at De La Salle University. We provide information on students, faculty and staff as well as on the critical functions of instruction, research, and community service in support of strategic planning, policy-making, and continuous improvement. The office is headed by a Director who reports directly to the Chancellor. The Director is a member of the Assessment, Accreditation, Quality Assurance, and Ranking Council of the university.

In this web site you can find the university's accreditation and assessment status, references, teaching and learning frameworks, assessment related activities, and much more. For other inquiries, please see the " IAA Home" link and also our contact information.

Institutional Recognition, Accreditation and Assessment Status

Granting Organization	Accredited/Assessed Unit	Status
Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Republic of the Philippines	De La Salle University	Autonomous Status Award of Distinction
Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Republic of the Philippines	Biology	Center of Excellence
	Chemistry	Center of Excellence
	Mathematics	Center of Excellence
	Physics	Center of Excellence
	Information Technology Education	Center of Excellence
	Teacher Education	Center of Excellence
	Psychology	Center of Excellence
	Chemical Engineering	Center of Development
	Civil Engineering	Center of Development
	Computer Engineering	Center of Development
	Electronics and Communications Engineering	Center of Development
	Mechanical Engineering	Center of Development
	Industrial Engineering	Center of Development
	Political Science	Center of Development
Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU)
Undergraduate Programs	Accountancy	Level III
	Business and Economics	Level III
	Education	Level III
	Liberal Arts	Level III
	Science	Level III
	Computer Science	Level III
	Engineering (Civil, Industrial, ECE)	Level IV
	Engineering (Chemical, Mechanical)	Level III
Graduate Programs	Education	Level III
	Liberal Arts	Level III
	Science	Level III
ASEAN University Network – AUN QA Assessment at Programme Level	Applied Corporate Management	Assessed November 2011
	Physics	Assessed November 2011
	Software Technology	Assessed November 2011
	Chemistry	Assessed November 2010
	Literature	Assessed November 2010
	Psychology	Assessed November 2010
	Chemical Engineering	Assessed August 2008
	Economics	Assessed August 2008

DLSU Current Autonomy and Accreditation Status

Autonomous Status

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) once again granted DLSU Manila Autonomous Status effective November 15, 2007 to November 14, 2012 (per CHED Memorandum order (CMO) No. 59 series of 2007) and recently extended up to May 31, 2014, (per CHED Memorandum Order No. 18 series of 2012). The selection and identification of higher educational institutions to be granted autonomous status are based on several criteria: commitment to excellence, long tradition of integrity and untarnished reputation; and sustainability and viability of operations. The indicators of the above criteria are measured by the number of Level IV and Level III programs of the institution, the number of CHED Centers of Excellence and Centers of Development, and international and national recognition for academic excellence.

The benefits given to institutions having autonomous status include exemption from issuance of Special Order (S.O.) for their graduates; priority in grant of subsidies and other financial incentives from CHED; privilege to prescribe their curricular programs; privilege to offer new courses/programs without seeking permit/authority from CHED; privilege to establish branches or satellite campuses without seeking government authority from CHED; authority to grant Honoris Causa to deserving individuals among others.

NEWS
Level IV Status for Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and ECE The Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines (FAAP) has granted Level IV status to the Civil Engineering, Electronics and Communications Engineering, and Industrial Engineering programs of the Gokongwei College of Engineering of De La Salle University.  These three programs [...]
Three more programs undergo AUN-QA Assessment The programs of Applied Corporate Management (ACM), Software Technology, and Physics received high marks from the ASEAN University Network Quality Assurance Assessment at Programme Level.  The assessment was conducted last November 7-9, 2012 by a team of 6 assessors from the National University of Singapore, Institut Teknologi Bandung, National University of Laos, Universiti Sains Malaysia, and Chulalongkorn University.  The programs were assessed [...]
CHED extends Center of Excellence status of DLSU programs The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has extended the status of Centers of Excellence in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics “until such a time that the harmonization of quality assurance on [...]