MBA
Accreditation– the Key to Quality
A guide to the Association of MBAs’ accreditation process
Accreditation ensures that an MBA programme is of the highest quality and relevant to the changing world of business. The MBA should reflect changing trends and innovation in postgraduate management education. The accreditation process and the criteria under which MBA programmes are judged reflects this commitment to guaranteeing quality and fostering innovation.
Accreditation is international in scope. The Association’s International Accreditation Advisory Board (IAAB), which drafts and constantly monitors the accreditation criteria, is drawn from senior academics at top educational institutions around the world. The accreditation process involves assessing the characteristics of the business school and its MBA programme(s) against these criteria. The Association’s criteria are regarded as the international standard for MBA provision.
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The Association currently accredits MBA programmes at 186 institutions in over 70 different countries.
Providing, as it does, a service to all groups in the MBA community, the accreditation of MBA programmes offered worldwide lies at the heart of the Association’s commitment to managerial education and development. For students, often bewildered by the variety of programmes on offer, it provides a reliable list of programmes of tested quality. For the institutions offering accredited programmes it gives an overview of their position against norms which have gained widespread acceptance on an international basis. For the graduate it is the measure of reassurance that the standing of his or her qualification will retain its position of eminence at a time when the MBA market risks saturation. For the employer, the Association’s list of accredited MBA programmes provides a touchstone of quality for those seeking to recruit high-calibre staff.
The salient features of the criteria are:-
i) The institution shall have a clear sense of mission, a well identified target population and a developed sense of the market for its products, including a means of regular access to employer opinion. The institution should have its own discrete identity.
ii) The faculty should be of a size that can fully resource the activities of the school, and should be credible in terms of their academic qualifications, their ability to teach business at postgraduate level, the quality of their research and the extent of their business contacts and consultancy activities.
iii) Evidence will be required to show rigour in standards for admission, which must include work experience as well as academic criteria. The student body must be large and varied enough to form an intellectually critical mass and emphasis is placed on the value of peer group exposure.
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