1986	April	In its report “The Second Report on Educational Reform”, the National Council for Educational Reform proposes to examine the possibility of establishing an organization which grants academic degrees through assessment of academic achievement for the promotion of lifelong learning.
1989	July	The Committees for Graduate Education and University Education of the Council for Higher Education report the necessity to establish such an organization.
1990	June	The preparation committee for the organization is formed and its office is located at Graduate University for Advanced Studies.
1991	February	The Council for Higher Education publishes “A Report for Founding of the Organization which Grants Academic Degrees through Assessment”. The preparation committee publishes “A Report on Agenda of the National Institution for Academic Degrees”.
	July	The National Institution for Academic Degrees is founded.
1992	March	The first NIAD degrees are awarded.
1998	March	The number of people granted NIAD degrees exceeds 10,000.
	October	In its report “A Vision of Universities in the 21st Century”, the Council for Higher Education proposes to establish a third-party organization for university evaluation.
April	1999	The preparatory office and the preparatory committee for founding a national organization for university evaluation are established in NIAD.
2000	February	The preparatory committee publishes “A Report on Founding a National Organization for University Evaluation”.
	April	NIAD is reorganized as a new entity charged with carrying out the evaluation of universities in addition to its degree-awarding functions.
2001	September	NIAD celebrates the 10th anniversary of its degree-awarding activities.
2002	March	NIAD publishes the first university evaluation results for the trial university evaluation period. The number of people granted NIAD degrees exceeds 20,000.
2003	March	NIAD publishes the second university evaluation results for the trial university evaluation period.
	April	NIAD moves to its new offices in Kodaira City, Tokyo.
	May	The English name is changed from National Institution for Academic Degrees (NIAD) to National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation (NIAD-UE).
2004	March	NIAD-UE publishes the third university evaluation results for the trial university evaluation period, completing the trial evaluations.
	April	NIAD-UE is newly established as an Incorporated Administrative Agency.
	November	NIAD-UE pubulishes the meta-evaluation reports of the university evaluations conducted during the trial period.
2005	January	NIAD-UE is certified by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as an evaluation and accreditation organization for universities, junior colleges, and law schools among professional graduate schools.
	February	NIAD-UE pubulicly announces evaluation results for college of technology evaluation (trial evaluations).
	March	The number of people granted NIAD-UE degrees exceeds 30,000.
	July	NIAD-UE is certified by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as an evaluation and accreditation organization for colleges of technology.
	Octorber	NIAD-UE establishes a Center for International Relations.
2006	March	NIAD-UE publicly announces results of Institutional certified evaluation and accreditation (universities, junior colleges, colleges of technology) for the first time.
2008	March	NIAD-UE publicly announces the results of certified evaluation and accreditation of law schools for the first time. The number of people granted NIAD-UE degrees exceeds 40,000.
2009	March	NIAD-UE publicly announces the results of evaluation of education and research activities at national university corporations and inter-university research institute corporations for the first time.
2010	March	The number of people granted NIAD-UE degrees exceeds 50,000.
2011	April	NIAD-UE integrates its Department of Research for University Evaluation and Department of Assessment and Research for Degree Awarding to form a new Research Department．
	May	NIAD-UE integrates its Department of Research for University Evaluation and Department of Assessment and Research for Degree Awarding to form a new Research Department．
2013	May	The number of people granted NIAD-UE degrees exceeds 60,000.
2014	July	NIAD-UE establishes the Center for Japanese College and University Portraits.
2015	March	Publication of the information by the Japanese College and University Portraits providing information about education at universities begins.
2016	April	A new institution, National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education (NIAD-QE), is established by merger of National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation(NIAD-UE) and the Center for National University Finance and Management (CUFM). ・National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education ・Center for National University Finance and Management

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