Organization Type
Types of organization.
Assessment Body
Primarily offers assessments for credentials as a service.
Business
Organization that primarily sells products or services and employs one or more individuals.
Business or Industry Association
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.
Certification Body
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.
Collaborative
Organized group of entities in the public, private, government sectors that collaborates to achieve a common set of goals.
Coordinating Body
An organization that organizes multiple stakeholders around a common goal.
Four-Year College
Authorized postsecondary institution that primarily offers bachelor or higher degrees, but may also award associate degrees.
Includes free-standing medical, law or other first-professional schools, schools that offer postbaccalaureate certificates only, those that offer graduate programs only, etc.
Government Agency
Organization in the public sector at the federal, state or local levels.
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.
High School
Secondary school providing instruction and educational services that do not focus primarily on career and technical education or alternative education.
Labor Union
Membership organization of workers formed for the purpose of advancing its members' interests in respect to wages, benefits, and working conditions.
Magnet/Competitive Admissions School
Public school offering special instruction and programs not available elsewhere, designed to attract a more diverse student body from throughout a school district.
Military
Armed services of a government entity.
Alternative/Non-Traditional School
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.
Postsecondary Educational Institution
Organization such as a college or university.
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.
Primarily Online
Organization that primarily operates online.
Professional Association
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.
Quality Assurance Body
External body that performs accreditation, endorsement, approval, and/or recognition of a credential issuer.
Secondary School
Secondary school primarily providing education to students at the ninth grade or higher.
Career and Technical School
Secondary school that focuses primarily on providing formal preparation for skilled, technical or professional occupations or careers.
Education and Training Provider
Organization whose major purpose is to provide education and training services but is not a postsecondary education institution with the authority to award degrees.
Includes community-based organizations, non-degree granting proprietary schools which are education and training providers that are recognized by states as schools.
In the U.S., use for Title IV eligible organizations that do not award degrees.
Two-Year College
Authorized postsecondary institution that primarily offers associate degrees and certificates, and, if authorized, may also award higher degrees.
Includes occupational and vocational schools with programs of at least 1800 hours, academic institutions with programs of less than 4 years, etc.
Vendor
Sells, maintains, and issues credentials for its own products and services for public access and use.