Accreditations

Elizabeth City State University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award degrees at the baccalaureate and master's levels. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4501for questions about the accreditation of ECSU.

ECSU's Teacher Education Program is approved by the North Carolina State Board of Education and accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). Its Industrial Technology Program is accredited by the National Association of Industrial Technology.

ECSU's Laboratory School is accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).

The university as a whole, or through components of it, has current memberships in various professional learned organizations. Memberships are held in the following:

	Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences		National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education
	American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education		National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA)
	American Association of Higher Education		National Association of College and University Business Officers
	American Association of School Administrators		National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators
	American Association of State Colleges and Universities		National Collegiate Athletic Association
	American Council on Education		National Cooperative Education Association
	American Library Association		North American Association of Summer Sessions
	Associated Collegiate Press		North Carolina Association of Institutional Research
	Association for General and Liberal Studies		North Carolina Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
	Association for Institutional Research		North Carolina Cooperative Education Association
	Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)		North Carolina Association of Summer Sessions
	Association of Teacher Education Institutions		North Carolina Library Association
	Carolinas Association of Collegiate Registrar and Admissions Officers		North Carolina Student Information System
	Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA)		Society for College and University Planning
	College Entrance Examination Board		Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
	Colleges and University Systems Exchange (Cause)		Southern Association of College and University Business Officers
	Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)		Southern Association of Libraries
	Intercollegiate Press		Student Information System Users
	Mathematics Association of America