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Presentation to the Accreditation Process by Academic Unit

The academic unit is responsible for the academic and administrative management of the program(s). The unit is responsible for budgetary control and allocates the use of funds for the proper operation of the program.

The accreditation process for science-based engineering programs encourages the institution to present to the process a set of science-based engineering programs simultaneously, in order to carry out a more efficient and effective process that contributes to continuous improvement mechanisms, from the unit as responsible for the management and for each program, at the same time. The unit and its programs receive a set of comments that will strengthen the educational process that is being carried out with the purpose of verifying the acquisition of the Graduate Attributes and the declared Graduate Profile.

The programs that enter the accreditation process of Acredita CI under international evaluation criteria, commit to a process that will require maintaining the current accreditation in time. This means that the programs must renew their accreditation permanently, as the term of the accreditation granted expires.

Incorporation requirements

A program may submit to the accreditation process when:

  1. Have two cohorts of graduates, and graduates practicing the profession.

If a program presents two current study plans, a plan that is finishing that has graduates practicing the profession and a plan as a result of a curricular innovation process that still does not present graduates, Acredita CI will apply the following policy:

Acredita CI Policy

The accreditation is granted by results, with evidence of the performance of the graduates. It should be noted that if the program does not have graduates from the innovated curriculum, it must have graduates from the plan that is finishing. In this scenario, the program could even be running two curricula, in parallel, which is common in practice.

The program may be submitted to the process. The Self-Assessment Guide provides specific guidelines to carry out the process under these conditions.

  1. It is taught during the day, with regular admission in face-to-face mode. In addition, if the program is taught in more than one location, in the evening (either face-to-face or blended) or in a special degree program, all these locations, daytime or evening and modalities must be submitted to the process simultaneously.
  2. The program must be taught by an autonomous Higher Education Institution as established by Chilean law.

Application to join the process

To join to the process, complete the Incorporation Form presented below and send it to the mail [email protected].

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Any questions regarding the incorporation process, you can send it through the email [email protected].