Setting the Standard for Quality Education

IBPCA’s mission is to serve as a reliable authority on educational quality and to promote enhanced opportunities for students by establishing, sustaining, and enforcing valid standards and practices which contribute to the development of a highly trained and competitive workforce through quality career oriented education. Learn more about us .

With the growth being experienced in the clinical research industry, there is a need to standardize the education of those involved in clinical research. As a result IBPCA has been formed as a private, non-profit, independent accrediting agency which has assembled a panel of profesionals as a reliable authority for the establishment of educational standards.

IBPCA’s scope of recognition includes the accreditation of clinical research courses run in private, postsecondary, non-degree-granting institutions and to offer standardization of globally transferable credits, and those institutions that offer programs via distance education.

This site contains information regarding IBPCA, our accreditation process and procedures, and our eligibility criteria. It is the Commission's sincere hope that this information provides all interested parties with a better understanding of the role that IBPCA accreditation plays in ensuring quality at the institutions we accredit, and to highlight the impact our accredited institutions have within the higher education community.