American Career Institute – Baltimore, Columbia and Wheaton are approved by the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) since September 1994. The mission of the Maryland Higher Education Commission is to ensure that the people of Maryland have access to a high quality, diverse, adequately funded, effectively managed, and capably led system of postsecondary education.

American Career Institute is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education & Training (ACCET). The Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training (ACCET), located in Washington, DC, was founded in 1974 for the purpose of improving continuing education and training and has been officially recognized by the U.S. Department of Education since 1978 as a "reliable authority" as to the quality of education and training provided by the institutions we accredit. In 1998, ACCET became the only recognized accrediting agency to be certified as an ISO 9001-Quality Management System, under the international standards established by the International Organization for Standardization, and continues to hold that unique status.