Faculty of Science

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

Accreditation of higher education institutions and programmes
in all three cycles (every five years).
Audit of higher education institutions.
assessment of the quality assurance system of a higher education institution or a faculty (legal changes are envisaged to make audit a voluntary activity).
Initial accreditation
all new higher education institutions (public and private) and all new study programmes of private universities, polytechnics and colleges. Public universities do not undergo an initial accreditation.
Re-accreditation of doctoral study programmes
carried out as a cluster evaluation of the third cycle.
Further information on external quality assurance in Croatia