Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Abbreviation	M.S.A.S.C. or M.S.A.
Formation	1887
Legal status	Association
Purpose	Educational Accreditation
Headquarters	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Region served	Delaware, District of Columbia - (Washington, D.C.), Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands
Board President	John Cavanaugh
Main organ	Board of Trustees
Website	msa-cess.org/

The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (Middle States Association or M.S.A.) is a voluntary, peer-based, non-profit association that performs peer evaluation and regional accreditation of public and private secondary/high schools and elementary schools in the Mid-Atlantic United States and certain foreign institutions of American origin.

Its headquarters are in Center City, Philadelphia.

The "Middle States Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools" (M.S.A.-C.E.S.S.) accredits public and private schools as well as school systems throughout the United States and it states it is active in more than 85 countries around the world.

MSA used to accredit colleges and universities through its higher education commission. In 2013, that commission — the Middle States Commission on Higher Education — became a legally separate entity.