Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Austria

Established in 2012, the Austrian Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation (Agentur für Qualitätssicherung und Akkreditierung Austria, AQA) is the independent body for quality assurance and evaluation for public an private universities and universities of applied sciences in Austria. AQA is a non profit organisation and its members are the Austrian Rectors' Conference, the Conference of the Universities of Applied Sciences, the Association of Private Universities, the Students Union and the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.

AQA has a international coverage and focus on the following activities:
- Accreditation of private Universities in Austria
- Accreditation of programs at private Universities in Austria
- Accreditation of programs at Universities of Applied Sciences in Austria
- Accreditation of Universities of Applied Sciences
- Audit of internal quality management systems at Austrian public Universities and Universities of Applied Sciences
- Evaluation of programs at higher education institutions
- International Accreditation
- Joint programme accreditation
- Notification of foreign degree programs in Austria
- Program Accreditation at German higher education institutions
- System accreditation of German higher education institutions
- Voluntary accreditation of continuing education programs at higher education institutions in Austria