Office for Quality Assurance – University of the East

About OQA and ETEEAP Center

Office for Quality Assurance and ETEEAP Center

The functions of the Office for Quality Assurance (OQA) includes monitoring and overseeing the Colleges in achieving their desired accreditation and certification goals; maintaining current status and certifications earned by the University (Autonomous Status, Center for Development etc.) Coordinating Quality Assurance training needs of teaching and non-teaching personnel of the University; and to identify appropriate quality assurance mechanism applicable to the University.

Moreover, The Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program of University of the East was approved by the Board of Trustees in October 2019. It is CHED’s educational evaluation scheme under CMO No. 28, series of 2013 to grant individuals equivalency credits or corresponding academic degree who have acquired pertinent knowledge, skills, competencies, and proficiency from their highly valued body of work and life experiences as well as high-level, non-formal, and informal training.

It aims to provide qualified individuals or industry practitioners a college degree without them having to take up all the academic units under such programs as long as they have been working for at least five years in their field of specialization and for which degree they wish to obtain.

Currently, it offers the following programs: Bachelor of Arts in Communication in Caloocan Campus and Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Major in Marketing Management in Manila Campus.

Institutional Accreditation and Quality Assessment

A total of 50 or 93% of the academic programs of the University are now accredited or under accreditation: 34 in Manila and 16 in Caloocan. UE Manila has three Level IV programs, three Level III programs, thirteen Level II programs (two applied for Level III and two programs are qualified to apply for Level III), six Level I programs, 9 under Candidate status (7 visited for Level I Formal).

UE Caloocan, on the other hand, has four programs granted Level III Reaccredited status (all are qualified to apply for Level IV), three Level II programs (2 are qualified to apply for Level III), seven Level I programs and two under Candidate status. This academic year alone, 24 programs underwent evaluation/visits by PACUCOA, PAASCU and PRC. Only four academic programs of UE without accreditation.

The UE College of Computer Studies and Systems and two UE College of Engineering are still busy preparing for accreditation by the Philippine Information and Computing Accreditation Board (PICAB) and the Philippine Technological Council (PTC).

This will enable UE to be part of the Seoul Accord in the computing and information technology and Washington Accord in engineering. The Office for Quality Assurance is also preparing for the Institutional Sustainability Assessment (ISA) and ISO accreditation.

FAAP Certificates

Caloocan Campus

College of Arts and Sciences
College of Business Administration
College of Computer Studies and Systems
College of Education
College of Engineering
College of Fine Arts and Design
Basic Education Department

Manila Campus

Graduate School
College of Arts and Sciences
College of Business Administration
College of Computer Studies and Systems
College of Dentistry
College of Education
College of Engineering
Basic Education Department