Accreditation and Affiliations

COMPREHENSIVE ACCREDITATION VISIT

Vanguard College will be hosting a comprehensive accreditation visit by a team of evaluators from the Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE) (March 5-7, 2025) to determine its compliance with the standards for accreditation. During the visit, representatives of the ABHE team will entertain comments from the public. Any members of the public interested in making a presentation regarding the College to the team should contact the College at the following telephone number (1-866-222-0808) or email address (info@vanguardcollege.com) to determine a meeting time. Persons wishing to submit third party comments related to the institution may send them through the electronic form at https://abhe.formstack.com/forms/3rd_party_comment, or email coa@abhe.org, or mail ABHE Commission on Accreditation, 5850 T.G. Lee Blvd., Suite 130, Orlando, FL 32822. Persons interested in reviewing the standards for accreditation will find them on the ABHE website at abhe.org. They appear under Accreditation/Accreditation Resources/COA Manual. The institution is subject to the Institutional Accreditation Standards.

OUR ACCREDITATION

Vanguard College is accredited by the Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE) Commission on Accreditation (5850 T.G. Lee Blvd., Ste. 130, Orlando, FL 32822, 407.207.0808) to grant certificates and degrees at the Associate and Baccalaureate levels. ABHE operates across North America and is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), establishing a standard for credit recognition at Christian Schools across North America.

What is Accreditation?

Accreditation means the assurance of quality. It requires every part of a school or program to be examined and judged by experts who are also peers. If the school or program receives accreditation, it means that it lives up to its promises to students. You can trust what the school or program tells you about its courses, its teachers, the services it provides and what you will need to pay (tuition and fees). When a school or program indicates that it is accredited, it means that it has received a 'seal-of-approval'. Accreditation is reaffirmed every ten years through an institutional self-study and peer evaluation process.

How Does Accreditation Help Me Make Smart Choices?

Accreditation protects you because it requires that schools and programs demonstrate patterns of evidence indicating quality assurance for the public. Before you even get to a college or university, accreditators have done an extensive background investigation and evaluation of the school you plan to attend. You cannot do all this work on your own, so accreditors have made sure that you have reliable information about a wide variety of aspects that will impact your educational experience. 

OUR AFFILIATIONS

While we are the official Theological Training College of the Alberta and Northwest Territories District of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, over a dozen different Christian denominations are represented in our student body. This provides a very unique, powerful atmosphere of “unity in diversity”. Vanguard also offers official education pathways with the Christian & Missionary Alliance and the Pentecostal Assemblies of Newfoundland (for more info, Click Here), so that students can easily attain credentialing and ordination. Students from different denominational backgrounds are also encouraged to attend and be equipped for Christian life and ministry with us!