Purpose – Baptist International Accrediting Agency

To stimulate excellence at reasonable costs.
To encourage a close relationship among our members.
To foster Christian values as a part of the educational process.
To provide counsel and assistance in the establishment, development, and retention of quality institutions.
To encourage institutional self-improvement through continuous evaluation.
To assure the public that the individual institutions that have been approved for membership offer programs that meet national and international standards.
To protect institutions against encroachments.
To encourage nontraditional learning – the extended campus concept, but to insist on quality.
To recognize external degree programs, but to constantly search for new definitions of quality.