In 2005, the academic programs of the Loyola Schools were granted a Level IV accreditation—the highest possible level—from the Commission on Higher Education through the Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines (FAAP) and the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU). In 2011 it was also granted Institutional Accreditation by the same body, the first time that both citations were awarded to a university simultaneously. The Ateneo de Manila is one of few universities in the country granted autonomous status by CHED, which likewise recognizes a number of the university's programs and departments as Centers of Excellence and Centers of Development. The grade school and high school divisions both have the highest level of accreditation (level III) from PAASCU and FAAP.