The Accrediting Association of Seventh-day Adventist Schools is an educational accreditation

Educational accreditation

Educational accreditation is a type of quality assurance process under which services and operations of educational institutions or programs are evaluated by an external body to determine if applicable standards are met...

 body operated by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is the governing organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is located in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, where it moved in 1989...

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Accreditation by the body is not the same as the academic accreditation provided by government-recognized accreditors. Rather, it focuses on ensuring that an institution is aligned with the mission of the Seventh-day Adventist church

Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ...

. Such accreditation confers official recognition by the Seventh-day Adventist church and qualifies schools for church funding. Its process support services, religious course material and the makeup of the teaching staff.

See also

• List of Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools
• List of Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities
• List of Seventh-day Adventist medical schools

External links

• http://education.gc.adventist.org/ - Department of Education, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Official Website