STATE AUTHORIZATION

The State of California has stated its intent to promote the effective integration of private postsecondary education into all aspects of California’s higher educational system and to foster and improve educational programs and services of such private institutions while protecting students from fraudulent or substandard operations. To promote these goals, the State of California created the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Vocational Education (BPPVE) with the responsibility for approving and regulating private postsecondary educational institutions.

In 1993, the California Council for Private Postsecondary Vocational Education granted Irvine University institutional licensing under the provisions of Section 94900 of the California Education Code. Since then, the University has continually been authorized and approved to grant academic degrees in Business, Law, and Liberal Arts. Bureau Staff have conducted qualitative reviews and assessments of the University in governance and administration, curriculum, instruction, faculty, qualifications, physical facilities, administrative personnel, procedures for keeping educational records, tuition, fee, and refund schedules, admission standards, financial aid policies, scholastic regulations and graduation requirements, ethical principles and practices, library and other learning resources, student activities and services.