Quality counts
‘Accreditation’ is a term commonly used to describe an institution, school or programme that has been approved in some way and to show that academic quality and standards have been checked and verified. The term is used differently in different education systems. In the UK, academic quality is integral to degree-awarding powers.
It is important that students and prospective students alike have confidence in the integrity of the award they are signing up to. For our programmes, this is guaranteed through Heriot-Watt University’s status as a Royal Charter institution.
Separately, there are a number of agencies, such as EQUIS (the European Quality Improvement System); AACSB; and AMBA (UK Association of MBAs) that offer accreditation for programmes, disciplines, schools and institutions. We have not sought this additional accreditation.
