Quality Assurance of Islamic Religion Based-Universities in Universalism of Ahlussunnah Wal Jama’ah Values

. Higher education is one of the areas that need certain standards to assure quality. Ahlussunnah Wal Jama’ah of Nahdlatul Ulama has universalism values to be actualized in quality assurance. This study aims to describe the existence, standards, manual, institutions, implementation and evaluation, external and internal Quality Assurance System as the universalism values. This is qualitative descriptive research with field research. The research was conducted at four Nahdlatul Ulama -based Islamic universities at Central Java and Jogjakarta which have been accredited by the National Accreditation Board of Higher Education. Data were collected by questionnaire and interview. The results show that Islamic- Based Universities need to make several breakthroughs and strategic steps to deal with change and competition in such a fast and tight manner such as looking back the historical context of identity of Moslem, having distinction, in educational process (learning), developing basic knowledge.