Quality Assurance
Mandate
The Quality Assurance Directorate is mandated to spearhead, coordinate, and provide assistance to the program, institutional, international accreditation/certification and global initiatives and activities of the University in its quest for continual improvement and quality assurance.
Objectives
The Quality Assurance Directorate seeks to provide services and initiatives to the various operating units towards continual improvement for programs in the national and international levels as well as provide support for the attainment of quality management system of the University.
To attain this, the following are the specific objectives:
- Coordinate the accreditation of curricular programs to Accrediting Agency of Chartered Colleges and Universities in the Philippines (AACCUP), Inc. not later than the end of their validity period;
- Coordinate institutional accreditation of the campuses of the University;
- Provide support to the academic units in processing documents and requirements for the Certificate of Program Compliance;
- Provide support to the academic units in their Center of Development and Center of Excellence application;
- Provide support to the SUC Leveling requirements;
- Spearhead activities related to the conduct of Institutional Sustainability Assessment (ISA)/ Typology;
- Spearhead activities for quality assessment and evaluation such as the Philippine Quality Award (PQA);
- Coordinate with the academic units for international assessment/evaluation;
- Coordinate with other units in the University to participate in international rankings such as Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Star Rating System, Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Ranking, and World University with Real Impact (WURI) Ranking, among others;
- Facilitate the conduct of certification of operations/processes of the campuses of the University to ISO 9001: 2015.
Director
204 Mariano Marcos State University,
Brgy. 16-S Quiling Sur, City of Batac,
Ilocos Norte, Philippines 2906
Awards and Accomplishments
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2023
- Sustained ISO 9001:2015 certification
- Beneficiary agency of the Government Quality Management Program (GQMP)-Capability-Building Intervention on QMS of the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP)
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2022
- Level II Institutional Accreditation of the Laoag Campus
- MOU with AACCUP to grant PSV to MMSU programs
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2021
- Top 4 performing SUC with the highest number of Level 4 accredited programs in 2021
- Top 4 with the highest number of accredited programs (1992-2019)
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2020
- Level III Institutional Accreditation of Batac Campus
- Top 5 performing SUC with the highest number of Level 3 accredited programs in 2020
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2019
- Top 3 most improved internal QA unit
- Top 3 performing SUC with the highest number of Level 3 accredited programs in 2019
- ISO 9001:2015 certification for the University QMS
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2018
- Institutional Sustainability Assessment
- SUC Levelling
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2014
- Level 1 Institutional Accreditation of Batac Campus
- First University under the Outcomes-based Accreditation System
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1992
- One of the first SUCs to submit for accreditation