Accreditations and Affiliations
Lincoln University is accredited by:
- Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association
(30 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2400, Chicago, IL 60602-2504, 1-800-621-7440) - National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
Teacher education programs are accredited. - Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE)
All teacher education programs are approved. - National Association of Schools of Music (NASM)
- Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs
- Missouri State Board of Nursing
The associate of applied science in nursing program is approved. - Accrediting Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN)
The associate of applied science in nursing and the bachelor of science in nursing programs are accredited. - Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Program (CAAHEP)
The associate of applied science in surgical technology.
The University also holds institutional membership in the following organizations:
- American Association of University Women (AAUW)
- American Council on Education (ACE)
- American Library Association (ALA)
- American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)
- Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
- Association of 1890 Land-Grant Universities
- Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP)
- Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC)
- Association of Continuing Higher Education (ACHE)
- Black College Communication Association
- Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools (CHBGS)
- International Science and Engineer Fair (ISEF)
- Missouri Academy of Science (MAS)
- Missouri Library Association (MLA)
- Missouri Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (MACTE)
- Missouri Society of Association Executives (MSAE)
- National Association of Schools of Music (NASM)
- National Commission on Accrediting
- National Association for Business Teacher Education (NABTE)
- National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC)
- University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA)
- American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)
- National Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU)