The school is accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Fewer than 25 percent of the nation's approximately 420 undergraduate journalism and mass communmication programs have achieved this status.

Information about ACEJMC accreditation can be found at the ACEJMC website, http://www.ku.edu/~acejmc/

ACEJMC invites all students and other persons to report incidents in which they can present evidence that a unit has violated accreditation standards. Such reports should be addressed to: Jerry Ceppos, president of ACEJMC, School of Journalism, Stauffer-Flint Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 66045.