Instead of educating a few select in a given place, now a much larger group from all over the world are receiving the same education. This is the sum total of what a Global University like AUH is. Simply the use of any instrument that can establish communication between two or more people for exchange of ideas. Up to 1997 it was one of the kind, but in the past 3 years others have entered the arena, including a number of universities from the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. We will take about this a little later.
Accreditation is a process peculiar to the United States.
It simply means that one university will accept the credits gained by the student in another university. The reason for this is mainly because higher education has never been centrally regularized by a central governmental body in the United States, as it is in almost all other countries of the world, where there is a Ministry of Education, or Ministry of Science or Higher Education, or a Governmental Commission for Higher Education and so on. With more than 17,000 establishments that call themselves institutions of higher education in the country, obviously the ones with a name and repute had to distance themselves from the questionable and sometimes even fraudulent operators. Membership of the club was made subject to meeting a number of criteria. Others argue that the list at least extends some protection to the public against the unscrupulous operators.