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Accreditation Decisions
COA meets two times each year (April and October) and utilizes special meetings, if necessary.
Current decisions of COA are reported on this webpage and decisions since October 2013, may be reviewed under the tab -
Past COA Decisions. Effective in 2019, accreditation decision information is included in the ABFSE Directory of Accredited
Programs.
Committee on Accreditation (COA) Actions:
October 2025
The Committee on
Accreditation of the American Board of Funeral Service Education took the following actions regarding these funeral service/mortuary science education programs at the October 24-25, 2025 meeting
in Chicago, IL:
Re-accreditation for a period of seven (7) years
Jefferson State Community College, Birmingham, AL
Reaccredited with no stipulations. Four (4) commendations cited.
Mercer County Community College – Trenton, NJ
Reaccredited with the
stipulation to provide evidence of assessment surveys and the manner in which survey data is utilized by March 1, 2026.
Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science, Pittsburgh, PA
Reaccredited with no stipulations. Five (5) commendations cited.
Re-accreditation
for a period of three (3) years
Arkansas State University - Mountain Home, Mountain Home, AR
Reaccredited
with four (4) stipulations, two (2) commendations and one (1) recommendation.
Distance Education substantive change application accepted
Kansas City Kansas Community College, Kansas City, KS
Application accepted. Virtual visit is required for program approval.
Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science, Cincinnati, OH
Application accepted. Virtual visit is required for program approval.
Goodwin University, E. Hartford, CT
Application accepted. Virtual visit is required for program approval.
Stipulations satisfied
University of Arkansas Community College - Hope/Texarkana, Hope, AR
Mid-America College of Funeral Service, Jeffersonville, IN
Dallas Institute of Funeral Service, Dallas, TX
Columbus Technical College, Columbus, GA
Southwest Tennessee Community College, Memphis, TN
Stipulation response continued
Arapahoe Community College, Littleton, CO
Professional license disclosure statement contains
inaccuracies.
Candidacy application accepted
West Georgia Technical College,
Feasibility study and Candidacy application accepted with
stipulation to provide a copy of the approval from the State Technical College system prior to scheduling a Candidacy site visit.
Probation
Ivy Tech Community College, Indianapolis, IN
Accreditation is continued
during Probation for one (1) year to address: assessment issues related to standards 10.1.2 and 10.1.5; update recordkeeping for clinical and other program records (standard 3.1.4.b); submit
a random sample of recordkeeping for funeral directing tasks (standard 3.1.4.b); submit clinical site inspection reports for each site currently being used (standard 7.2.3).
Other actions taken by the Committee on Accreditation in October 2025 did not affect the accredited status of the programs involved.
The
following institutions/programs will be considered for scheduled re-accreditation and related action via a formal review by the Committee on Accreditation at the next scheduled meeting April
14-15, 2026 in Houston, TX.
Re-accreditation
Lake Washington Institute of Technology, Kirkland, WA
St.
Louis Community College, St. Louis, MO
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
State University of
New York (SUNY-Canton), Canton, NY
Eastwick College, Hackensack, NJ
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Public comment regarding the above may be submitted to the ABFSE office prior to March 1, 2026.
Robert C. Smith III
Executive Director
992 Mantua Pike, Suite
108
Woodbury Heights, NJ 08097
Office: (816) 233-3747
Email: exdir@abfse.org
Download the above information
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Past COA Decisions
(all documents below are presented in PDF format)
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