The main mandate of Islamic Higher Education is to offer islamic studies. In its development, islamic studies as a discipline has changed its paradigm not to emphasize on one normative approach only. This paper explains how Islamic Higher Education which has extended mandate develops. The historical approach to islamic teachings makes Islamic Higher Education open possibility to the study of other disciplines. This relationship often have some tense to come into one representative formula. The development of a certain discipline will have a direct implication to the development of the institution. The evaluation instrument of the development of Higher education is accreditation. BAN PT applies some standards that sometimes do not match the real condition of higher education, especially islamic studies-based higher education.