Accreditation

John Carroll University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission, an institutional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. John Carroll University also participates in the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements. The Boler College of Business is among only 6% of business schools worldwide that hold accreditation from AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and among the less than 2% of the world’s schools with independent accreditation for accountancy. The Educator Preparation Program is approved by the Ohio Department of Higher Education and the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP) for the preparation of Primary, Middle Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult, and Multi-Age school teachers and principals. The undergraduate degree program in chemistry is approved by the Committee on Professional Training of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Students majoring in chemistry can receive an ACS-certified degree with the appropriate coursework. The Clinical Mental Health Counseling and the School Counseling Programs are accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP).  John Carroll University's Bachelor of Science in Nursing has conditional approval from the Ohio Board of Nursing and has full accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) through 2030. The Engineering Physics program has been designed to meet the standards of ABET, the primary accreditation agency of engineering programs in the United States.  JCU applied for ABET accreditation following the graduation of the Class of 2025, having graduated its first cohort of qualifying students. A decision on accreditation is expected by August 2026. The Master's degree in Applied Behavior Analysis at John Carroll University is pursuing recognition through ABAI’s Tiered Model of Education. Pursuit of recognition does not denote recognition status.

John Carroll University also belongs to the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU). Founded in 1970, the AJCU is a national organization that serves its member institutions, the twenty-eight Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States and Belize (with three associate members, two in Canada and one in Australia). For a complete list of these schools, please visit https://ajcunet.edu/about/colleges-universities/.