03.1 To which accreditation decisions does the obligation to publish accreditation results apply and where are these published?

In principle, the publication obligation – i.e. the obligation to publish the accreditation decision and the accreditation report – applies both to study programmes that are assessed as part of the programme accreditation and to study programmes that have been accredited as part of the internal accreditation procedures of higher education institutions (§ 18 para. 4 sentence 2 MRVO, thus also applying to Alternative Procedures). Section 29 of the MRVO states that the decision of the Accreditation Council and the accreditation report are published by the Accreditation Council on its website.

Accreditation information from both program and system accreditation procedures (positive and negative), as well as from the internal procedures of system-accredited higher education institutions, is published in a separate database of the Accreditation Council.

The establishment of a new, independent database of accredited study programmes in the context of the digital application processing system represents the ideal opportunity to define the requirements of the MRVO in more detail and to create the technical basis for implementation.