Vision

Accredit Educational Programs of Ayurveda, Ensure Quality, Promote Excellence, and Advance Improvement in Ayurvedic Medical Education. 

Mission

The mission of AAC is quality assurance: serving the public by accrediting programs in Ayurvedic medicine that voluntarily seek recognition and that demonstrate they meet or exceed AAC’s standards.

Goals and Values

To fulfill its mission, the Commission has identified the following as it primary goals and values:

1. To provide a voluntary, peer-review accreditation service that works in partnership with the Ayurvedic medicine profession, educators, regulators, certifying bodies and the public in developing and administering its standards and processes.

2. To encourage collaboration and cooperation among AAC-accredited programs to foster continuous improvement and excellence in Ayurvedic medicine education.

3. To pursue the development of processes and cooperative arrangements that minimize expense and unnecessary duplication of effort for programs seeking and maintaining AAC recognition.

4. To operate cost-effectively and efficiently to minimize the financial impact of accreditation on institutional resources and student tuition.

5. To operate in a manner that respects due process and is characterized by openness, transparency, fairness, equality, and consistency.

6. To develop credible, relevant, and regularly updated accreditation standards that are informed by science and clinical experience, and that reflect the ongoing evolution of the field of professional Ayurvedic medicine.

7. To provide an accreditation service that welcomes and honors diversity in all aspects of Ayurvedic medicine professional education, including theory, philosophy, and instructional methods.

8. To ensure, through valid and reliable evidence-based evaluation processes, that AAC standards are being met by Ayurvedic medicine professional programs that seek initial and continued AAC recognition.

9. To give public recognition to programs in compliance with AAC standards, and to serve as an information resource for government entities, healthcare clinics, potential students, patients/clients, the public and other stakeholders interested in understanding the meaning of AAC accreditation and the level of clinical training and skills of graduates of AAC accredited programs.