Specialized Accreditation
While institutional accreditation applies to the university as a whole, specialized accreditation of certain professional schools and individual educational programs is granted by a number of national organizations, each representing professional areas such as business, engineering or nursing. Though each of these accrediting organizations has its distinctive definitions of eligibility, criteria for accreditation and operating procedures, accreditation by a specialized accrediting agency is one means of assuring quality of the accredited programs.
Below are the current programs with specialized accreditation and their accrediting agencies.
Note: * Indicates a joint degree awarded by OHSU and a partner institution. Joint Degree Program partners include: Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT), Oregon State University (OSU), and Portland State University (PSU).School of Dentistry
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA)
- Years in Cycle: 7
- Initial Accreditation: 1945
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2016
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2017
- Next Review / Action Date: 2019
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA)
- Years in Cycle: 7
- Initial Accreditation: 1995
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2016
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2017
- Next Review / Action Date: 2023
Specialized Accreditation Agency: Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA)
- Years in Cycle: 7
- Initial Accreditation: 1991
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2016
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2017
- Next Review / Action Date: 2023
Specialized Accreditation Agency: Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA)
- Years in Cycle: 7
- Initial Accreditation: 1991
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2016
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2017
- Next Review / Action Date: 2023
School of Medicine
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND)
- Years in Cycle: 10
- Initial Accreditation: 2007
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2010
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2017
- Next Review / Action Date: 2024
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND)
- Years in Cycle: 10
- Initial Accreditation: 2007
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2010
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2017
- Next Review / Action Date: 2024
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND)
- Years in Cycle: 10
- Initial Accreditation: 2007
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2010
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2017
- Next Review / Action Date: 2024
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (JRCERT)
- Years in Cycle: 8
- Initial Accreditation: 1993
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2000
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2017
- Next Review / Action Date: 2021 - Interim Report
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Liaison Commission on Medical Education (LCME)
- Years in Cycle: Varies, 8
- Initial Accreditation: Prior to 1942
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2012
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2014 (limited visit)
- Next Review / Action Date: Progress Report 2015, Site Visit 2020
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Commission on Accreditation of Academic Medical Physics Programs (CAMPEP)
- Years in Cycle: 10
- Initial Accreditation: 2011
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2014
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2015
- Next
Review / Action Date: 2020
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM)
- Years in Cycle: Ongoing
- Initial Accreditation: 2012
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2012
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2017
- Next Review / Action Date: 2022-2023
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Accreditation Review Committee on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA)
- Years in Cycle: 7-10
- Initial Accreditation: 1996
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2008
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2015
- Next
Review / Action Date: May 2025
School of Nursing
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
- Years in Cycle: 10
- Initial Accreditation: 2003
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2003
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2013
- Next Review / Action Date: 2023
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
- Years in Cycle: 10
- Initial Accreditation: 2003
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2003
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2013
- Next
Review / Action Date: 2018; Five Year Report 2023 Site Visit
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
- Years in Cycle: 10
- Initial Accreditation: 2003
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2003
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2013
- Next Review / Action Date: 2018 – Five Year
Report 2023 Site Visit
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
- Years in Cycle: 10
- Initial Accreditation: 2003
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2003
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2013
- Next
Review / Action Date: 2023
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
- Years in Cycle: 10
- Initial Accreditation: 2003
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2003
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2013
- Next
Review / Action Date: 2023
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
- Years in Cycle: 10
- Initial Accreditation: 2003
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2003
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2013
- Next
Review / Action Date: 2023
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
- Years in Cycle: 10
- Initial Accreditation: 2003
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2003
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2013
- Next
Review / Action Date: 2023
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs (COA)
- Years in Cycle: 10
- Initial Accreditation: 2005
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2009
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2009
- Next
Review / Action Date: 2019
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education (ACME)
- Years in Cycle: 10
- Initial Accreditation: 1981
- Previous Accreditation Action: 1999
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2010
- Next Review / Action Date: 2020
Joint Degree Programs
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
- Years in Cycle: 5
- Initial Accreditation: 2008
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2015
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2015
- Next Review / Action Date: 2019-2020
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Accreditation Council of Pharmacy Education (ACPE)
- Years in Cycle: 8
- Initial Accreditation: 1952
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2003
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2011
- Next Review / Action Date: 2019
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Council on Education in Public Health (CEPH)
- Years in Cycle: 7
- Initial Accreditation: 1996
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2013
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2017
- Next Review / Action Date: 2022
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS)
- Years in Cycle: 7
- Initial Accreditation: 2002
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2008
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2014
- Next Review / Action Date: 2021 (recommended – final action pending)
- Specialized Accreditation Agency: Committee on Accreditation of Educational Programs for Emergency Medical Services Professions CoAEMSP)
- Years in Cycle: 10
- Initial Accreditation: 1996
- Previous Accreditation Action: 2001
- Most Recent Accreditation Action: 2017
- Next Review / Action Date: 2018