AECSA is a non-profit organisation set up to investigate and categorise the educational standards of universities and professional organisations
around the world.
Over the years it has investigated over 1,000 universities and professional bodies, and list all who meet its high certification standards as
"approved" organisations. AECSA also lists universities and professional bodies that are of a dubious nature
under headings such as "degree mills" and "non-traditional"
institutions on this website.
AECSA also undertakes the ranking of universities and professional bodies
by specialisation, either by itself or via the rankings published by leading educational establishments, newspapers and professional journals...
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Professional Bodies > Arts Languages and Literature
AECSA therefore provides a rating system of such professional bodies, based on its investigations, as follows:
Rating 1: Professional associations having strict membership criteria, including completion of state-of-the art education programs (usually at Masters Degree Level); strong recognition by employer groups; provision of substantial membership benefits and a strong mandatory continuing education development (CPD) program.
Rating 2: Professional associations having some educational requirements for membership (usually at undergraduate degree level); reasonably high recognition by employer groups; provision of good membership benefits and voluntary CPD requirements.
Rating 3: Professional associations having very open entry membership criteria, often with minimal level educational requirements (usually at trade school level or lower); a poor level recognition by employer groups; very basic membership benefits and almost no CPD requirements.
Rating 2
Institute of Acoustics (IoA)
Institute of Linguists (IoL)
Rating 3
Society for Promotion of Hellenic Studies (SPHS)
Association of British Orchestras (ABO)
Association for Language Learning (ALL)
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
Association for Learning Technology (ALT)
Association for Learning Technology (ALT)
Institute of Publishing (IP)
Royal Photographic Society (RPS)
Royal Television Society (RTS)
Society of Archivists (SA)
Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP)
Society for Promotion of Roman Studies (SPRS)