AUBH Receives U.S. Accreditation Through WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC)

AUBH Receives U.S. Accreditation Through WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC)

The American University of Bahrain (AUBH) has announced that it has received U.S. accreditation through the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC), one of the seven best known accrediting agencies in the USA. This makes AUBH among only a handful of other universities accredited by this world-renowned commission in the GCC and MENA region.

The Commission awarded AUBH accreditation for upholding the highest international academic standards for educational quality and effectiveness. Accreditation is a voluntary process and is unique to the United States, where higher education is not directly regulated by the government. Accreditation supports universities in improving existing processes and helps affirm a “culture of evidence” at AUBH.

In 2019, Elm Education, a Bahrain-based education investment fund established by Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company (Mumtalakat), launched AUBH as the Kingdom’s first comprehensive, purpose-built, co-educational university based on the American model.

AUBH is licensed by the Higher Education Council of the Ministry of Education in Bahrain, the national regulator for the Kingdom’s Higher Education Institutions, and is a CIQG Member of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) in the U.S. AUBH has also recently achieved official recognition by the Ministry of Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Bradley Cook, AUBH President