Accreditation-2023

Victor Valley College is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC). 

The purposes of regional accreditation include encouraging institutions to improve academic quality, institutional effectiveness, and, ultimately, student success. The ACCJC focuses on community colleges, career and technical colleges, and junior colleges, through the creation and application of standards of accreditation and related policies, and through a process of review by higher education professionals and public members. ACCJC evaluation of institutions assures the educational community, the general public, and other organizations and agencies that an institution has clearly defined objectives appropriate to higher education; has established conditions under which their achievement can reasonably be expected; and appears in fact to be accomplishing them; is so organized, staffed, and supported that it can be expected to continue to do so.

Each institution affiliated with the ACCJC accepts the obligation to participate in a cycle of periodic evaluation through institutional self-evaluation and review by teams of peer reviewers. Teams conduct an evaluation review following completion of institutional self-evaluation in order to determine the extent to which an institution meets the Commission’s Standards. Team members, selected for their expertise, make recommendations to meet the Commission’s Standards, make recommendations for improvement, commend exemplary practices, and provide both the college and the Commission with a report of their findings.   

2023 Institutional Self-Evaluation final Report:

Visiting Team's Core Inquiries October 19, 2023: 

Third Party Comments

Members of the college community are invited to submit third-party comments to ACCJC regarding Victor Valley College’s compliance with Eligibility Requirements, Accreditation Standards, or Commission Policies. Third-party comments may be submitted at any time, however if you would like your comments to be reviewed by the external evaluation team during a particular review cycle, comments must be received no later than five weeks before the scheduled peer review team visit. The next peer review team visit will be February 2024.

Third-party comments can be submitted online through the ACCJC website.