Organization Type
type: ConceptScheme
comment: Types of organization.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/ceterms/OrganizationType/json
has concept: Assessment Body
has concept: Business
has concept: Business or Industry Association
has concept: Certification Body
has concept: Collaborative
has concept: Coordinating Body
has concept: Four-Year College
has concept: Government Agency
has concept: High School
has concept: Labor Union
has concept: Magnet/Competitive Admissions School
has concept: Military
has concept: Alternative/Non-Traditional School
has concept: Postsecondary Educational Institution
has concept: Primarily Online
has concept: Professional Association
has concept: Quality Assurance Body
has concept: Secondary School
has concept: Career and Technical School
has concept: Education and Training Provider
has concept: Two-Year College
has concept: Vendor
has top concept: Assessment Body
has top concept: Business
has top concept: Business or Industry Association
has top concept: Certification Body
has top concept: Collaborative
has top concept: Coordinating Body
has top concept: Government Agency
has top concept: Labor Union
has top concept: Military
has top concept: Postsecondary Educational Institution
has top concept: Primarily Online
has top concept: Professional Association
has top concept: Quality Assurance Body
has top concept: Secondary School
has top concept: Education and Training Provider
has top concept: Vendor

Assessment Body
type: Concept
definition: Primarily offers assessments for credentials as a service.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/AssessmentBody/json
in scheme: Organization Type
top concept of: Organization Type

Business
type: Concept
definition: Organization that primarily sells products or services and employs one or more individuals.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/Business/json
in scheme: Organization Type
top concept of: Organization Type

Business or Industry Association
type: Concept
definition: Membership organization primarily engaged in promoting the interests of their business members and providing them with services that may involve the provision of education and credentialing services.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/BusinessAssociation/json
in scheme: Organization Type
top concept of: Organization Type

Certification Body
type: Concept
definition: Independent, third-party organization that operates a certification program. A certification body may or may not be governmental, and may or may not have regulatory authority.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/CertificationBody/json
in scheme: Organization Type
top concept of: Organization Type

Collaborative
type: Concept
definition: Organized group of entities in the public, private, government sectors that collaborates to achieve a common set of goals.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/Collaborative/json
in scheme: Organization Type
top concept of: Organization Type

Coordinating Body
type: Concept
definition: An organization that organizes multiple stakeholders around a common goal.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/CoordinatingBody/json
in scheme: Organization Type
top concept of: Organization Type

Four-Year College
type: Concept
definition: Authorized postsecondary institution that primarily offers bachelor or higher degrees, but may also award associate degrees.
description: Includes free-standing medical, law or other first-professional schools, schools that offer postbaccalaureate certificates only, those that offer graduate programs only, etc.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/FourYear/json
broader: Postsecondary Educational Institution
in scheme: Organization Type

Government Agency
type: Concept
definition: Organization in the public sector at the federal, state or local levels.
description: Includes quasi-governmental organizations, special districts (e.g., libraries), corrections organizations, etc., except college and school districts. Is also responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions other than the military services.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/Government/json
in scheme: Organization Type
top concept of: Organization Type

High School
type: Concept
definition: Secondary school providing instruction and educational services that do not focus primarily on career and technical education or alternative education.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/HighSchool/json
broader: Secondary School
in scheme: Organization Type

Labor Union
type: Concept
definition: Membership organization of workers formed for the purpose of advancing its members' interests in respect to wages, benefits, and working conditions.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/LaborUnion/json
in scheme: Organization Type
top concept of: Organization Type

Magnet/Competitive Admissions School
type: Concept
definition: Public school offering special instruction and programs not available elsewhere, designed to attract a more diverse student body from throughout a school district.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/Magnet/json
broader: Secondary School
in scheme: Organization Type

Military
type: Concept
definition: Armed services of a government entity.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/Military/json
in scheme: Organization Type
top concept of: Organization Type

Alternative/Non-Traditional School
type: Concept
definition: Secondary (i.e., high school) that: 1) addresses needs of students which cannot typically be met in a regular school; 2) provides nontraditional education; 3) falls outside of the categories of regular, magnet/special program emphasis, or career and technical education.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/NonTraditional/json
broader: Secondary School
in scheme: Organization Type

Postsecondary Educational Institution
type: Concept
definition: Organization such as a college or university.
description: Organization with the authority to award degrees, and whose primary purpose is to provide postsecondary (tertiary or non-tertiary) education including programs whose purpose is providing academic, vocational, and continuing professional education.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/Postsecondary/json
in scheme: Organization Type
top concept of: Organization Type
narrower: Four-Year College
narrower: Two-Year College

Primarily Online
type: Concept
definition: Organization that primarily operates online.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/PrimarilyOnline/json
in scheme: Organization Type
top concept of: Organization Type

Professional Association
type: Concept
definition: Membership organization primarily engaged in promoting the interests of a particular profession, the interests of individuals engaged in that profession, and providing them with services that may involve the provision of education and credentialing services.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/ProfessionalAssociation/json
in scheme: Organization Type
top concept of: Organization Type

Quality Assurance Body
type: Concept
definition: External body that performs accreditation, endorsement, approval, and/or recognition of a credential issuer.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/QualityAssurance/json
in scheme: Organization Type
top concept of: Organization Type

Secondary School
type: Concept
definition: Secondary school primarily providing education to students at the ninth grade or higher.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/SecondarySchool/json
in scheme: Organization Type
top concept of: Organization Type
narrower: High School
narrower: Magnet/Competitive Admissions School
narrower: Alternative/Non-Traditional School
narrower: Career and Technical School

Career and Technical School
type: Concept
definition: Secondary school that focuses primarily on providing formal preparation for skilled, technical or professional occupations or careers.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/Technical/json
broader: Secondary School
in scheme: Organization Type

Education and Training Provider
type: Concept
definition: Organization whose major purpose is to provide education and training services but is not a postsecondary education institution with the authority to award degrees.
description: Includes community-based organizations, non-degree granting proprietary schools which are education and training providers that are recognized by states as schools.
usage note: In the U.S., use for Title IV eligible organizations that do not award degrees.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/TrainingProvider/json
in scheme: Organization Type
top concept of: Organization Type

Two-Year College
type: Concept
definition: Authorized postsecondary institution that primarily offers associate degrees and certificates, and, if authorized, may also award higher degrees.
description: Includes occupational and vocational schools with programs of at least 1800 hours, academic institutions with programs of less than 4 years, etc.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/TwoYear/json
broader: Postsecondary Educational Institution
in scheme: Organization Type

Vendor
type: Concept
definition: Sells, maintains, and issues credentials for its own products and services for public access and use.
term status: stable
change history: https://credreg.net/ctdl/termhistory/orgType/Vendor/json
in scheme: Organization Type
top concept of: Organization Type