This article reports the result of a summative evaluation of the State Policy’s terms that determine the requisites for academic programs of higher education to be developed and offered in Colombia, focused on the analysis of the elements of Law 1188 of 2008. The national analysis frame is the colombian higher education regulation and, in the international context, in the field of normative and conceptual areas. It concludes that the term “qualified registry” for academic programs is atypical in international regulations on higher education