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Full Accreditation
All our programmes are accredited by the Council on Higher Education (CHE) and are registered by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET, registration number 2001/HE08/005). The registered programmes are:
- Doctor of Philosophy in Theology
- Master of Theology
- Master of Divinity
- Bachelor of Theology Honours
- Bachelor of Theology
- Higher Certificate in Christian Life
- Higher Certificate in Christian Counselling
Legal Status
SATS is registered as a Section 21 company (reg. no. 2002/005184/08), a PBO (18/11/13/2403), and an NPO (033-343-NPO).
We are also a founder member of the National Association of Distance Education Organisations in South Africa (NADEOSA) and we are a member of the South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE), the International Council for Evangelical Theological Education (ICETE), the International Council for Higher Education (ICHE), the CHEA International Quality Group (CIQG) and the World Evangelical Theological Institute Association (WETIA).
Our accreditation and Department of Education registration provide assurance that the quality of our programmes is of the highest standard. Our programmes are therefore nationally and internationally comparable and the credits earned with us are truly “portable”, i.e. they can be transferred to other accredited, registered institutions. The increasing number of international students confirms the acceptability of our programmes around the world.
Recently our MTh and PhD programmes were submitted to two of the most frequently used and highly recommended evaluators in the USA, namely the International Education Research Foundation, Inc. (www.ierf.org) and the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers’ International Education Services (http://ies.aacrao.org), and both confirmed that these degrees represent attainment of a level of education comparable to the equivalent degrees from a regionally accredited university in the United States. Our degrees are also recognised by the German website www.anabin.kmk.org which provides information about the evaluation of foreign qualifications, the Brazilian and Argentinian governments, while the IQAS (International Qualification Assessment Service) in Alberta, Canada, an independent, secular assessment service used by many Canadian universities to establish the quality of foreign qualifications, has evaluated the SATS BTh as the local equivalent of a “three year Bachelor’s degree with a focus in theology”.