The Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ARACIS)

ARACIS is an autonomous public institution of national interest, funded from evaluation fees and from projects. ARACIS’ mission is to carry out external quality evaluation of education provided by higher education institutions and by other organizations providing higher education study programs. The Agency performs the following types of evaluation activities: the provisional authorization to operate (study programs, institutional, doctoral studies domains); accreditation procedures (study programs, institutional, master and doctoral studies domains); periodic/cyclical evaluations (study programs, institutional, master and doctoral studies domains).