ICAISA
International Council Advancing Independent School Accreditation
Inspiring Transformation ~ Upholding Excellence
ICAISA is a nonprofit organization that establishes and upholds standards for accrediting associations in order to ensure quality and accountability in independent and international schools across the globe. The members of ICAISA are accrediting associations that have voluntarily submitted to a rigorous and impartial review of their accreditation programs. Through this recognition process, each member of ICAISA demonstrates its compliance with the ICAISA Criteria for Effective Accreditation Practices and its alignment with the ICASA Core Standards and Essential Capacities.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Student Exchange Visitors Program (SEVP) recognizes ICAISA members and their accredited schools located in the United States of America. Learn more about SEVP here
ICAISA at a Glance
9,800 Accredited Schools
ICAISA recognized accrediting associations serve excellent independent schools world-wide.
ICAISA recognized accrediting associations serve excellent independent schools world-wide.
– John A.C. Hattie
120 Countries
Students and employees at schools accredited by ICAISA members live in over 120 countries all over the world.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
– Sir Francis Bacon
1,899,936 Students
The minds of almost 2 million students are being shaped by excellent educators at ICAISA member schools.
Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
– Malala Yousafzai
$2 Billion Financial Aid
Over 2 billion dollars of need-based financial aid is awarded to students at ICAISA member schools.
A man of humanity is one who…desiring attainment for himself, helps others to attain.
