Acreditación universitaria

Abstract

The University has been called “Headquarters of reason” considering that its purpose is to form students in high level through the development of this faculty. Those culminating a career obtain an academic degree which is a testament to their academic training; although in some cases this degree is sought for vanity. Human beings are built in time and one of the purposes of universities is to contribute to this process. In accordance with the way how they fulfill these functions, the universities achieve in communities different levels of prestige, this is subject to its seriousness and responsibility. To establish this level there are accreditation processes that depend on the qualities of its graduates and the successes in research. Universities must have internal mechanisms to improve the performance of their duties, but there are also external institutions that make it possible to find out these levels and to compare them. The external accreditation can be performed with different methods and visions, which gives rise to different points of view based on how, under what referents and who carries out these efforts.