Process of AVMA accreditation

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Hey!

Been looking on the forum for a while and couldn't find a thread related to this, sorry if I missed it.

I was simply wondering how long could the AVMA accreditation process of International Universities approximately take from the time the school requests the AVMA and COE for the process.

I understand there's a huge amount of variables involved and is probably next to impossible to answer the question. But if anyone has any idea it would be interesting to know!

 

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Anyone know something? 🙂

 

[IZZY222]

From what I understand, a school becomes AVMA accredited once they have graduated their first class.

I am not positive as to everything that must be in place before the school can official take a class but I know that:
- they need to have a curriculum
- they do not need to have an onsite teaching hospital (ie Western)
- they need "funding" (I'm not sure what this means but Midwestern talk a lot about it)
- they need classroom and laboratory facilities (LMU talked about this)

That's what I know!

 

[IZZY222]

Also, the last school to become fully accredited was Western almost 10 years ago.

I'm from the state of Arizona and Midwestern is 3 miles from where I grew up. There was talk for about 6 years about them developing a vet school. They had some legal red tape to jump through with the state of Arizona till they accepted their first class last year (c/o 2018).

 

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Sorry i should've probably stated that I was wondering regarding international universities. Thanks for the info though 🙂

 

[DVMDream]

I don't think anyone here could adequately explain exactly how a school becomes accredited. There is probably some information online via the AVMA COE website, but to really understand the exact process, you would have to be a part of it.

To be honest, I wish the AVMA would slow down on the accreditation of schools both here and internationally, we have enough job market saturation, we don't need more.

 

[LetItSnow]

Also, the last school to become fully accredited was Western almost 10 years ago.

10 years ago?

Ross received accreditation in ... 2011, right? Somewhere around then. Certainly more recent than 10 years ago. SGU was more recent, too.

 

[deleted498041]

10 years ago?

Ross received accreditation in ... 2011, right? Somewhere around then. Certainly more recent than 10 years ago. SGU was more recent, too.

Yeah, I thought Ross and SGU were more recent. I vaguely remember having a "Haha, we're not the newly accredited school anymore, whoo hoo!"

 

[IZZY222]

10 years ago?

Ross received accreditation in ... 2011, right? Somewhere around then. Certainly more recent than 10 years ago. SGU was more recent, too.

I was speaking of US school, not international.

 

[dyachei]

I was speaking of US school, not international.

then you still have to consider the provisional accreditation of the newer schools LMU and midwestern. They aren't fully accredited, but if everything goes as planned, they will be. Students graduating from there will be accredited.

 

[LetItSnow]

I was speaking of US school, not international.

There's not much point in that distinction, since the COE doesn't make it.

 

[CalliopeDVM]

I think it takes at least 2-3 years to get provisional accreditation, and final accreditation is never granted until the first class has graduated and taken their licensing exam, and accreditation requires a minimum of 80% of the students sitting must pass the exam.

I believe the latest school to achieve accreditation is in New Zealand.

 

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Yeah I've had a look on there website and it seems like a complex process to really understand 100%. Thanks for the help!

I understand that the graduates of avma schools have to have atleast a 80% navle pass rate in subsequent years. Otherwise avma accreditation may be taken away

Are there any schools that have had trouble with this? I've heard the Ross and SGU has slightly higher dropout rates (from reading different threads might not be too true) could this also correlate to the navle pass rate?

 

[dyachei]

Yeah I've had a look on there website and it seems like a complex process to really understand 100%. Thanks for the help!

I understand that the graduates of avma schools have to have atleast a 80% navle pass rate in subsequent years. Otherwise avma accreditation may be taken away

Are there any schools that have had trouble with this? I've heard the Ross and SGU has slightly higher dropout rates (from reading different threads might not be too true) could this also correlate to the navle pass rate?

pretty much all schools have a pass rate in the 90+% range.

Ross and SGU have a higher rate of attrition but it doesn't factor into the percentage. The percentage is only out of the # of people that take the test

 

[jmo1012]

i think mostly its just ross that has high attrition rates, its pretty uncommon for students to drop out of/get kicked out of sgu...

i know it took both ross and sgu several years to be ready for accreditation. there are so many little things that a school has to have to be considered. ends up being expensive and time consuming to ensure all facilities are on par, the proper faculty are hired, etc.