ARACIS shall have the following tasks in the field of quality assurance:

Periodically formulates and reviews, on the basis of good practice, national reference standards and performance indicators for quality evaluation and assurance in higher education;

Collaborates with the Ministry of Education and with the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Pre-University Education (ARACIP) in drawing up and promoting policies and strategies of action, in order to increase education quality in Romania;

Annually organises consultations with higher education institutions in order to establish the priorities of quality assurance;

Draws up and publishes its own procedures of external evaluation of education quality;

Concludes, with Romanian and foreign education institutions, service contracts for the external quality evaluation of higher education programmes and programme providers, as well as for the inter-institutional evaluation of similar programmes;

Carries out the quality evaluation of higher education institutions and programmes, at the Ministry of Education’s request. The conditions concerning the evaluation activity are established by contract;

Publishes the external evaluations’ results;

Publishes manuals, guides, synthesis papers of good practice in quality assurance and evaluation;

Periodically draws up, every 3 years, system analyses on the Romanian higher education quality;

Collaborates with similar agencies in other countries in order to develop and apply efficient measures of improving the quality of higher education programmes;

Draws up the Professional code of ethics of ARACIS experts;

Annually publishes a report on its own activity;

Draws up, every 3 years, quality self-evaluation reports of its own activity, in order to prepare external evaluation by similar agencies from other countries.