{"id":8,"date":"2014-02-23T04:06:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T09:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highpoint.edu\/qep\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-04-17T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T22:01:19","slug":"sacscoc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.highpoint.edu\/qep\/sacscoc\/","title":{"rendered":"SACSCOC Accreditation Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Southern Association of Colleges and\u00a0Schools Commissions on Colleges (SACSCOC)<\/b> is the accrediting body for higher education institutions in the southern United States and Latin America. \u00a0Reaffirmation of accreditation occurs every 10 years and is critical to our university&#8217;s reputation and ability to recruit students and ensure their acceptance to graduate program, access federal grants, and receive federal financial aid.<\/p>\n<p>High Point University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to award bachelor&#8217;s, master&#8217;s and doctoral degrees. 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Questions about the accreditation of High Point University may be directed in writing to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4097, by calling (404) 679-4097, or by using information available on SACSCOC&#8217;s website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacscoc.org\">www.sacscoc.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern Association of Colleges and\u00a0Schools Commissions on Colleges (SACSCOC) is the accrediting body for higher education institutions in the southern United States and Latin America. \u00a0Reaffirmation of accreditation occurs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1802,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_hpuaeo_plugin_post_data":"","_hpuaeo_plugin_meta_tags":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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