Alcorn State University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
(1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097: Telephone number 404-697-4501) to award the Associate, Bachelor's,
Master's, and Educational Specialist degrees.
Alcorn's teacher education program is accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education.
The Associate of Science degree, the Bachelor of Science degree, and the Master of Science degree in Nursing programs are accredited by the National League
for Nursing Accrediting Commission.
Alcorn State University is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music,
the National Association of Industrial Technology, and the American Association of Family and Consumer Science.
The university also holds membership in the following organizations:
- American Association of College Business Officers
- American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
- American Council on Education
- Association of American Colleges
- Association of State Colleges and Universities
- Family & Consumer Sciences Association
- American Library Association
- American Public Relations Association
- College Language Association
- Council for the Advancement and Support of Education
- Council on Co-op College Projects
- National Association for Business Teacher Education
- National Association of Dramatic and Speech Arts
- National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges
- National Collegiate Athletic Association
- National Collegiate Honors Council
- National Commission on Accrediting
- Mississippi Banner Users Group
- Southern Association of College Registrars
- Association of Departments of English
- Association of Institutional Research
- Mathematical Association of America
- The Society for College and University Planning
- Southern Regional Honors Council
