Australian Chiropractic College

Accrediting bodies, named explicitly

Programmatic accreditation: College Council on Chiropractic Education Australasia (CCEA), described by the college as an independent accrediting authority for chiropractic education under Australia's National Registration and Accreditation Scheme. Board The Chiropractic Board of Australia confirms the CCEA is the accreditation authority responsible for accrediting education providers and programs for the profession. Not the CCE.
Accreditation status — disclosed by the college itself: College The college states on its own admissions FAQ that its Bachelor of Chiropractic program is “accredited with conditions” by the CCEA, and links to the CCEA's published page setting out those conditions.
That is a college publishing a qualification on its own accreditation, in the place a prospective student would read before applying. It goes on this page for the same reason Sherman's own published average graduate debt does: a fact an institution discloses about itself belongs in the field it concerns, whether or not it flatters the institution. unverified What the conditions are and whether they still stand — the CCEA publishes them and is the authority; we have not opened that page and are not characterising it.
National quality assurance and qualifications framework: College Registered with the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), Australia's independent national quality assurance and regulatory agency for higher education, as a Non-University Higher Education Provider. TEQSA Provider ID PRV14283; CRICOS Provider ID 03943F. Registered to deliver a Bachelor of Chiropractic at Australian Qualifications Framework Level 7 and a Diploma of Health Science at AQF Level 5, with approval to deliver the degree from 2020.

Campuses

Adelaide, South Australia

College Adelaide CBD, in the central shopping, business and entertainment district.

Melbourne, Victoria

College Stated by the college as its second campus location. unverified Which programs run there and whether cost differs by campus — the question that produced the largest single finding on the US pages.

What this qualification means for registration in Australia

The regulator

Board The Chiropractic Board of Australia, within the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra), under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law as in force in each state and territory. A single national registration scheme — not fifty separate boards.

Three statutory routes to general registration

Board Under section 53 of the National Law:

53(a) — holding an approved program of study. The Board publishes a searchable list of approved chiropractic programs on the Ahpra website, and separately a list of programs classified inactive.

53(b) — holding a qualification the National Board considers substantially equivalent, or based on similar competencies, to an approved program.

53(c) — holding a relevant qualification and completing an examination required by the Board, which is a CCEA examination. A statement of attainment from the CCEA qualifies the individual for general registration under this route.

Check the Ahpra approved-programs list rather than assuming. A program being accredited and a program being approved are two determinations, and the Board publishes both the approved and the inactive lists.

Local-context requirements for foreign-trained graduates

None equivalent found. Board Australia's route for an overseas-qualified applicant runs through competency assessment — substantial equivalence under 53(b), or the CCEA examination under 53(c). unverified Whether any cultural-safety or local-context requirement applies at registration.

That is a difference from New Zealand worth stating plainly, because it is the field a student planning to train abroad and return has no way to discover. The New Zealand Board requires all registrants whose primary qualification was obtained elsewhere to complete a recertification program on practicing in the New Zealand context, including Te Tiriti o Waitangi. On the Australian pages we read, the equivalent question is answered by examination rather than by orientation. Two jurisdictions, two different ideas of what a foreign-trained graduate is missing.

What this accreditation means for licensure in the United States

Empty, and it stays empty until a US board answers it.

unverified This program is accredited by the CCEA, not by the CCE. Three councils — the ECCE, the Australasian and the Canadian — publish a stated relationship through the Councils on Chiropractic Education International. Where the CCE in the United States sits is also published, and it is worse than an absence: the CCEI states it cannot speak to the equivalence of US programs because CCE-USA is no longer a member agency, and the CCEA recognizes CCE-US graduates only where the program was completed before 31 December 2017 — and that relationship determines whether a graduate of one system can practice in another.

The absence is the honest answer. Someone deciding where to spend four years deserves to know the question is unanswered rather than to act on our reading of it.

Ask the licensing board of the specific US state you intend to practice in, in writing, before you enrol. The jurisdictions documented here are listed on the licensure hub.

For any other country: the World Federation of Chiropractic publishes a contact list of member national associations across more than ninety countries. It is an index, not a licensing body — it licenses nobody and accredits nothing. The national association, or the statutory regulator it points you to, is the answer.

Program, entry and cost

Length and structure: College A four-year Bachelor of Chiropractic, plus a one-year Diploma of Health Science. The college states students who finish after the diploma year may move into other health-related fields or carry the qualification into further study.
Entry routes: College Entry to the Bachelor of Chiropractic requires successful progression through or completion of the ACC Diploma of Health Science, or completion of prerequisite units the college assesses as equivalent at no less than AQF Level 5 at a registered higher education provider. Recent secondary study route: a Year 12 or SACE-equivalent qualification with an ATAR of 80; applicants below that may still be admitted on condition of accepting an academic support plan.
Published cost: College The college publishes tuition on its admissions FAQ: A$26,500 per year for a full-time domestic first-year student in the Bachelor of Chiropractic, and A$32,000 for an international student. ⚠ unverified Whether these are current. The FAQ page we read is not dated on its face and appears to have stood for some time; tuition is set annually. Treat these as the shape of the cost rather than the price, and confirm the current year's figure with the college before budgeting. No cost-of-attendance table — housing, materials, living costs — was published alongside them, and nothing is estimated here.
Government loan eligibility: College Both the Bachelor of Chiropractic and the Diploma of Health Science are FEE-HELP eligible for domestic Australian students — the Commonwealth income-contingent loan scheme. There is no US equivalent for a private chiropractic program, where borrowing runs through federal student loans on different terms entirely.
Board performance data: unverified Not applicable in the US sense — there is no National Board examination series here, and registration runs through Ahpra on the strength of an approved program. Whether the college, the CCEA or TEQSA publishes completion or outcome data is unchecked.

Sources and dates. Checked September 2026. Fields tagged College come from the Australian Chiropractic College's own site at acc.sa.edu.au — its why-choose-us page (TEQSA registration, AQF levels, campuses, provider IDs) and its admissions FAQ (the CCEA accreditation-with-conditions statement, program lengths, entry pathways, tuition figures and FEE-HELP eligibility). Fields tagged Board come from the Chiropractic Board of Australia at chiropracticboard.gov.au, principally its accreditation page setting out the CCEA's role and the three registration routes under section 53 of the National Law. Fields tagged Council come from the CCEA's accredited-programs page. Fields marked unverified were not found in any of them and are not filled in from anywhere else — including the content of the CCEA's conditions, which the CCEA publishes and we have not read.

Nothing on this page is a ranking, a recommendation, or a comparison of quality. No school pays to appear here, to change a field, or to have a peer removed. Accreditation status, registration requirements and tuition all change; confirm anything decisive with the college, with the CCEA, with the Chiropractic Board of Australia, and — if you intend to practice elsewhere — with the regulator of that jurisdiction before you enrol.