The OTCAC Accredited Courses List currently includes distance education high school review courses and further education training courses (pedagogy for teaching ELL and EFL). While the institutions offering these courses are examined for their ethical practices, it is the courses that OTCAC accredits, though we do also accredit providers separately. A course is typically evaluated for accreditation over a period of 90 days, which is valid for a year. Each year, an OTCAC reviewer is responsible for conducting an online ‘stealth check’ of each accredited course, whereby information provided by an institution on their annual ‘self-evaluation and disclosure’ form is cross-checked with information present on their website. Reaccreditation by OTCAC generally operates on a five-year cycle, but OTCAC reserves the right to bring forward this timeline if stealth checks reveal a drastic deviation from OTCAC standards in a previously accredited course. 

Accreditation is granted when a course is deemed to fully comply with each of the OTCAC accreditation standards. An institution’s status is indicated below. An institution’s course can be displayed as “accredited”, “decision pending”, “not yet”, “previously accredited”, “denied”, or “processing reaccreditation”. In certain cases, additional information on the reason(s) for the status might be available. Accredited institutions’ courses flagged for potentially deviating from OTCAC standards after the annual check remain fully accredited unless the underlying issues are not resolved in a timely manner as set out in our standards.