Establishment of Japan Association for College Accreditation (JACA)

JACA established on April 21, 1994, was certified as accreditation agency to conduct Third-Party evaluation for junior colleges. This certification was granted by Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) on January 14, 2005, to start evaluation from the year of 2005. This was published in daily government newsletter number 31, March 3rd, 2005.

Since this third-party assessment is to be conducted based on laws, it is required extremely high public interest, and trust by society. Therefore JACA was to be established as “Foundation (Japan) Association for College Accreditation”.

This establishment was approved by Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) on March 31, 2005. With this approval, the previous JACA established as voluntary association dissolved and its projects were inherited by Foundation (Japan) Association for College Accreditation.

With the new law of Public Interest Corporation System Reform Act came into effect on December 1st, 2008, we applied for transfer (September 22nd, 2011) to General Incorporated Foundation. This transfer application was approved (March 21st, 2012) by Prime Minister. We started as General Incorporated Foundation Japan Association for College Accreditation (April 1st, 2012).

Years later, based on the provisions of Article 110, Article 1, of the School Education Act,
JACA applied for certification as Accreditation evaluation agency, in order to conduct comprehensive evaluation of education and research activity at university, support proactive improvement and innovation of the university, and to improve standard of education and research. This application was approved and certified by Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) as Accreditation agency for universities in Japan.

With this certification, on April 1st of 2020, we changed our name of corporation as General Incorporated Foundation: (Japan) Association for University/College Accreditation.