Accreditation, Approvals, Memberships, and Affiliations
The University of Jamestown is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. You can obtain or review accreditation documents by contacting the Higher Learning Commission at the address provided below:
The Higher Learning Commission
230 South LaSalle Street, Suite 7-500
Chicago, Illinois 60604-1411
Phone: 800-621-7440/312-263-0456
Fax: 312-263-7462
info@hlcommission.org http://www.hlcommission.org/
The University of Jamestown has been continuously accredited since 1920. Its teacher education program is approved by the Education Standards & Practices Board of North Dakota.
The University of Jamestown Associate of Science in Nursing degree program holds pre-accreditation status from the National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (NLN-CNEA), located at 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20037. Holding pre-accreditation status does not guarantee that initial accreditation by NLN CNEA will be received. (NLN -CNEA) https://cnea.nln.org
The Bachelor of Science in Nursing at University of Jamestown is accredited by the Commission of Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) (https://www.ccneaccreditation.org).
All nursing programs are state board approved: https://www.ndbon.org/
North Dakota Board of Nursing
919 S. 7th Street, Suite 504
Bismarck, ND 58504
The Physical Therapy Program at the University of Jamestown is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE), 3030 Potomac Ave., Suite 100, Alexandria, Virginia 22305-3085; telephone: 703-706-3245; email: accreditation@apta.org; website: http://www.capteonline.org
The University also holds memberships in the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities, the Council of Independent Colleges, and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. The University also has a number of affiliation and consortium agreements with medical facilities that provide clinical experience for its students.
State Authorization and Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA): NC-SARA is an agreement among member states, districts, and territories that establishes comparable national standards for interstate offering of postsecondary distance education courses and programs. It is intended to make it easier for students to take online courses offered by postsecondary institutions based in another state. NC-SARA is overseen by a National Council and administered by four regional education compacts. The members of NC-SARA are states, not institutions or students. Therefore, a state “joins” or becomes a “member” of NC-SARA while a college or university “operates under” or “participates in” NC-SARA. NC-SARA pertains to approval of distance education courses and programs offered across state lines by institutions that already have degree authorization in at least one state. What NC-SARA does is centralize the authorization process for each institution in a single state called the institution’s “home state.” Colleges or universities in an NC-SARA state therefore only need their home state authorization to offer distance education to any other NC-SARA member state.