Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA)
Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) is a United States organization of degree-granting colleges and universities. It identifies its purposes to include providing national advocacy for self-regulation of academic quality through accreditation and providing scrutiny and certification of the quality of higher education accrediting organizations, including regional, faith-based, private career, and programmatic accrediting organizations.
CHEA counts approximately 3,000 academic institutions as members and currently recognizes 59 accrediting organizations.