Calendar

ENTAK Accreditation Process Schedule

January 15 Deadline for programs to submit evaluation and accreditation requests to ENTAK via e-mail.
January 22 Deadline for ENTAK to evaluate the application and request missing information/documents if necessary.
January 31 Deadline for the final application form to be sent to ENTAK by mail.
February 14 Deadline for ENTAK to notify the applicant program about whether or not it will be evaluated; the accreditation fee and payment terms.
February 28 Deadline for programs to send a confirmation letter stating they have received the notification from ENTAK.
June 15 Deadline for the completion and submission of the Self-Assessment Report (SAR) and Virtual Archive by programs, in accordance with the format and content specified by ENTAK
July 15 Deadline for ENTAK members to perform a preliminary review of the SARs and Virtual Archive, and provide feedback to the program (regarding format/reporting inadequacies, etc.).
August 15 Deadline for submitting the final version of SARs (with format/reporting inadequacies resolved) and the final version of virtual archives to ENTAK electronically. After this date, no changes should be made to the self-assessment report or the virtual archive.
August 31 Deadline for stopping the accreditation evaluation in case of deficiencies and/or failure to meet the criteria, and notifying the relevant program of the reasoning.
September 7 Deadline for ENTAK to form the evaluation team and send it to the program for conflict of interest/overlap control.
September 14 Deadline for the program to perform conflict of interest/overlap control and provide approval.
September 21 Deadline for ENTAK to finalize the evaluation team members.
October 7 Finalization of the date of visits by the evaluation team chair and program managers.
November 1-30 The evaluation team makes a visit of 3 days to the institution.
Within 7 days from the date of visit The team leader mails the Program Evaluation Report (with all form contents) and the Student Evaluator Report to ENTAK for archiving, and mails Form 3 and Form 4 to the head of the department.
Within 37 days from the date of visit The head of the department sends the 30 Day Form to the team leader.
Within 67 days from the date of visit The evaluation team prepares the Draft Report and sends it to ENTAK.
Within 82 days from the date of visit The consistency committee checks the reports in terms of consistency.
Within 100 days from the date of visit Checking draft reports for format, style and spelling errors.
Within 110 days from the date of visit ENTAK makes final changes/corrections on draft reports and prepares final reports to be reported to the programs.
March 31 Deadline for ENTAK to notify the program of the accreditation decision in an official letter.