01.4 What documents must be submitted with the application?

The Accreditation Council carries out a plausibility check of the resolution recommendation of the accreditation agency and the peer review panel set out in the accreditation report. Therefore, in case of doubt, the Accreditation Council must have the opportunity to verify the resolution recommendation on the basis of the study program documents.

According to § 23 MRVO, the accreditation and self-evaluation report must be submitted with the application for program accreditation. The self-evaluation report must also include the complete annexes. If study program documents have been revised during the course of the procedure, for example as part of a quality improvement loop, the Accreditation Council requires the documents in the revised version.

In addition, the higher education institution has the option of submitting a statement on the accreditation report. If this is not done, the Accreditation Council and its Head Office assume that

a) the status described in the accreditation report is correct from the perspective of the higher education institution and

b) all assessments are undisputed from the point of view of the higher education institution and the results (recommendations / conditions) are perceived as appropriate and accepted.

If a) and/or b) do not apply, this must be indicated in a statement, as the Accreditation Council will otherwise make its decision solely on the basis of the accreditation report and the other application documents.

Changes relevant to the assessment between the completion of the report and the opening of the administrative procedure must be reported even if they do not relate to recommendations or proposed conditions of the Agencies and the peer review panel. The instrument of the statement on the accreditation report must be used for this purpose.

Such changes relevant to the assessment after the administrative procedure has been opened should remain the exception and must be reported to the German Accreditation Council immediately in ELIAS by means of a statement. In this case, please also inform your contact person at the Head Office of the Accreditation Council via an ELIAS system message.

The procedure described here for program accreditation also applies analogously to system accreditation.