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Accreditaion

Licensure/Certification of Programs

The following is a link to the College's public disclosure indicating whether the College's programs meet state licensure/certification requirements: https://www.tc.columbia.edu/office-of-teacher-education/certification-disclosure/

All Teachers College programs are registered with the New York State Education Department.

Teachers College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

Teacher preparation, school leadership, and school counseling programs are accredited with the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation.

A number of academic programs are accredited by specialized accrediting bodies, including:  

• Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (Nutrition Education)
• American Psychological Association (Counseling Psychology, Clinical Psychology and School Psychology Ph.D. programs)
• American Speech-Hearing-Language Association (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
• Applied Behavior Analysis International (Applied Behavior Analysis)
• Council on Education for Public Health (Community Health Education)
• Council on the Education of the Deaf (Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing)
• Masters in Counseling Accreditation Council (Psychological Counseling)
• National Association of School Psychologists (School Psychology) 

Contact information for each of the accrediting agencies listed above is available at the Office of Accreditation and Assessment: https://www.tc.columbia.edu/oaa/accreditation/specialty-professional-associations/

Responsible Office: Office of the Provost

Effective Date: May 2021

Last Updated: July 2023