Accreditation
Clarke College is a member college of Woolf University, which guarantees full recognition of our degrees in over 60 countries, including the United States, Canada, and throughout Europe.
Students will earn their degrees and their academic credits in the most widely recognized accreditation system in the world, ensuring their studies receive the global recognition they deserve.
Overview
Woolf is a collegiate higher education institution, in the tradition of Oxford and Cambridge, and Clarke College is one of its member colleges. All Woolf colleges meet the same rigorous high standards – all curriculum, teachers, and students are managed by the central administration and subject to the same processes of quality assurance. Woolf's degrees are recognized in more than 60 countries.
Woolf is an accredited, degree-granting Higher Education Institution with license number 2019-015. Woolf is based in Malta, which has been a member of the European Union since 2004, and of the European Higher Education Area since 2010. Woolf's degrees are fully integrated with the ECTS system. The Registrar's office for Woolf is located at 66, Old Theatre Street, Valletta VLT 1427, Malta.
Regulatory and Accreditation Frameworks
- ECTS: All degrees are issued with ECTS credits. ECTS accreditation is the most sophisticated, widely recognized accreditation system in the world.
- Lisbon Recognition Convention: Our degrees are recognized by more than 60 countries, including those who are under treaty obligation as signatories to the Lisbon Recognition Convention. The full list of signatory countries can be found on the United Nations website.
- Bologna Process: The Bologna Process names the agreements which harmonize accreditation standards. This process created the ECTS. Initially this was a system to transfer credits between institutions, and later it became the standard way to refer to the credits themselves, such as '180 ECTS credits'.
- ICDE: Woolf is an official member institute of ICDE. The International Council for Open and Distance Education aims to transform the world through inclusive education, and is the leading membership organization working to bring quality education to all.
To see the complete list of regulatory and accreditation frameworks please visit https://woolf.university/accreditation
Country Recognitions
As a fully accredited Higher Education Institution, Woolf degrees are by default globally recognized. The list below compiles country-specific information based on requests from Woolf graduates and students.
United States
United States is a signatory of the "Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education" ("Lisbon Convention") and is under treaty obligation to recognize degrees issued by Woolf. Also, Woolf degrees are recognized in United States on an equivalency basis through an "Education Credential Assessment".
Degrees from Woolf have been evaluated by nonprofit, independent evaluators, and they have been deemed equivalent to US Regional accreditation for academic purposes.
Canada
Canada is a signatory of the "Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education" ("Lisbon Convention") and is under treaty obligation to recognize degrees issued by Woolf. Also, Woolf degrees are recognized in Canada on an equivalency basis through an "Education Credential Assessment".
Woolf has been evaluated by nonprofit, independent evaluators for purposes of academic equivalence and for Canadian immigration and citizenship.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is a signatory of the "Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education" ("Lisbon Convention") and is under treaty obligation to recognize degrees issued by Woolf. Also, Woolf degrees are recognized in The United Kingdom on an equivalency basis through an "Education Credential Assessment".
To see the complete list of countries please visit https://woolf.university/degree-mobility-and-immigration
FAQs
Q: What is "Education Credential Assessment" (ECA) or degree recognition?
- A process where a neutral party evaluates whether a degree in one country is equivalent to a degree in another country.
- There are two kinds of ECA: assessment for academic purposes and assessment for immigration purposes.
Q: Has Woolf been evaluated with "Education Credential Assessment" (ECA) for Academic purposes?
- Woolf has been evaluated by ECE.org, a nonprofit body and member of NACES.org since 1987. ECE is authorised in the United States and Canada for ECA.
- The institutional status of Woolf has been evaluated to be "Equivalent to US Regional Academic Accreditation."
- Program and credit evaluations of a Woolf graduate degree conducted by ECE determined that a "student will have the United States equivalent of a master's degree recognition."
- ECA for Academic purposes typically take 5-10 weeks to complete.
Q: Is there a difference between accreditation for online and offline degrees?
- No, online and offline degrees have the exact same accreditation in Europe, there is no difference.
Q: Is my degree accredited in country X that I want to study in?
- Your degree is accredited in Europe. Almost all countries in the world will recognize European accreditation.
- For example, in the United States, ECE.org determined that a Woolf's degree are fully accredited from an American perspective and fully equivalent to an American degree. Canada also determined Woolf's degrees to be fully accredited.
Q: What is ECTS? What is the meaning of a degree being ECTS backed?
- ECTS is the most sophisticated and globally recognized accreditation system.
- It is the universal form of accreditation for the European Higher Education Area (49 countries have now joined).
- All countries recognized it because it was recognized by a large block of Universities and Countries.
Q: Is Woolf a university?
- In the United States, Woolf University is incorporated and officially approved in the State of Wisconsin under Wis. Stats. § 440.52 (10)(a), with approval granted on August 15th, 2022 under the Educational Approval Program of the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services, which is the body providing state licensure for universities.
- In Europe, Woolf is a Higher Education Institution and is not licensed as a "university," which is a specially reserved term. As an accredited, fully licensed Higher Education Institution, Woolf is able to offer bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees with the same status as issued by a "university." There is no difference in accreditation of the degree issued.
- Canada recognizes Woolf as a "university."