A ministry or national agency decides who may operate and, in many systems, who may award protected degree titles. That is recognition or licensing. Programme accreditation reviews a named course against subject standards. Institutional accreditation reviews the provider’s systems. Mixing the three in a single sentence is how websites become misleading.
A provider can be a lawfully registered company and still lack authority to award national degrees. It can hold institutional accreditation and still have no separately accredited MBA. It can hold a programmatic review and still be refused by a foreign licensing board. Each finding answers a different question.
QAHE institutional decisions are quality-assurance decisions. They should be quoted as such. They should not be rewritten as ministry approval, university status, or automatic international equivalence.
Good public information uses the exact nouns: licensed, recognised, institutionally accredited, programme-accredited, professionally designated. Students can then decide. Regulators can then read the file without decoding marketing.
