The ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) Network was created to realise the mission of harmonising educational standards and seeking continuous improvement of academic quality of universities in the ASEAN region. AUN-QA activities are carried out in accordance with the Bangkok Accord adopted in 2000, which provides a series of guidelines to promote the development of a quality assurance system as instruments for maintaining, improving and enhancing teaching, research and the overall academic standards of AUN member universities. Since the establishment of the Bangkok Accord in 2000, AUN-QA has been actively promoting, developing, and implementing quality assurance practices based on an empirical approach where quality assurance practices are shared, tested, evaluated, and improved.

To accomplish its mission, AUN-QA conducts quality assessments for Higher Education Institutions that are members of its network. These assessments, carried out by Sripatum University, include the AUN-QA Programme Assessment and the AUN-QA Institutional Assessment. The SPU AUN-QA system is developed to ensure the classic AUN-QA quality assurance implementation through an online system, originally innovated by the D.B.A programme, Graduate College of Management, Sripatum University, Bangkok, Thailand.