Middle States, headquartered in Philadelphia, accredits public and private institutions of higher learning in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. For the 2010-11 academic year, the Middle States directory lists 524 accredited member institutions and 10 candidates for accreditation, including 218 accredited public institutions, from county-run community colleges to the U.S. Naval Academy, Military Academy (West Point), Merchant Marine Academy, and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
The NEASC's Commission on Institutions of Higher Education covers Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont and six institutions in other countries. Eastern Connecticut State University, for instance, has been accredited by NEASC since 1958. The original institution of the University of Maine, at Orono, was first accredited in 1929, reviewed in 2009 and is scheduled for review again in 2019; other UM campuses were accredited in 1958, 1968, 1970 and 1973.
The North Central Association reaches as far south as Arizona and New Mexico and includes Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. The agency is headquartered in Chicago.
The NWCCU has accredited Dixie State College in St. George, Utah since 1945, and Illisagvik College, a tribal institution in Barrow, Alaska, since 2002. It covers 160 other institutions in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. The agency is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
The agency covers the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia and accepts applications from overseas institutions. Of more than 800 institutions, 479 accredited by the SACS Commission on Colleges are public.
WASC maintains separate commissions for accrediting community and junior colleges and for "senior colleges and universities" in California, Hawaii, Guam and the Pacific Basin. The senior college commission evaluates not only the University of California System, with its distance-learning and off-campus locations, but also UC's 10 local campuses. The University of Hawaii is similarly accredited for a system with distance learning and four campuses. WASC operates from headquarters in Alameda, California.