Accreditation, Certification and Quality Assurance Institute (ACQUIN)

ACQUIN is a registered association with recognised non-profit status. Its members include more than 150 higher education institutions (HEIs) in Germany and abroad as well as professional and trade associations close to science. ACQUIN’s goal is to carry out nationwide and cross-university accreditations of Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes in all disciplines in order to ensure a high quality of degree programmes, to create market transparency, to increase the attractiveness of HEIs for foreign students and to promote the comparability of academic degrees.