Global Accreditation Agencies

Please visit individual agency pages from the links given below!

There are a number of accreditation agencies operating from different parts of the world accrediting business education. We have been closely tracking most of these top rated accreditation agencies with the criteria of listing only agencies that are validated by external evaluators. For example, the ACBSP and IACBE were vetted by Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) in USA. AACSB is adhering to ISO 9001:2015 and the AMBA, BGA, BAC etc., being vetted by the independent European Quality Register and the Quality Accreditation Agency (QAA). The only exception is the India based accreditor South Asian Quality System (SAQS) which we track. Below mentioned are a brief description of each of the International Accreditation agencies we track with the links pointing to the exclusive pages we have created for each individual association.

AACSB EFMD GLOBAL AMBA-BGA ACBSP IACBE SAQS

The more than a century old pioneering accreditation agency, AACSB International based in Tampa, Florida is considered as a Gold Standard for accreditation. More

The Brussels based European "Federation for Management Development (EFMD) administers European Quality Systems EQUIS. The Federation also offers BSIS, EDAF and EOCCS. (more)

The London based Association of MBAs AMBA is one of the fastest growing international accreditation agencies with significant presence in India. (more)

Business Graduates Association is the latest service of AMBA with an institutional accreditation focus. The institutions undergoing the BGA process could also opt for AMBA-BGA accreditation process which is a new variation of the AMBA offer.(more)

Accreditation Council for Business Schools & Programs (ACBSP), ACBSP currently has 1,297 member campuses, 221 of which are located outside of the U.S. Of those campuses, 952 have achieved accreditation and more than 150 are in candidacy for accreditation. Individual members on these campuses now exceed 12,000. (more)

The Kansas based relatively newer accreditation agency, International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education IACBE is emerging a big player in the South Asian region (more)

The Hyderabad based South Asian Quality System SAQS focusing on South Asian countries is emerging as a strong player in the region (more)

ENGINEERING ACCREDITATION

With over 4000 campuses, engineering education is ripe for international accreditation in India as the technology education is looking to assimilate best benchmarked quality of global technology universities.

ABET accreditation is voluntary, and to date, 4,361 programs at 850 colleges and universities in 41 countries have received ABET accreditation. Over 175,000 students graduate from ABET-accredited programs each year, and millions of graduates have received degrees from ABET-accredited programs since 1932.

ABET

NETWORKING BEYOND
ACCREDITATION

Not every school would ready for accreditation, even though most would like to avail of the rigorous standards and processes set by the agencies. What if the elements of accreditation is combined with learning to inch towards global quality regime?

Also networking is one of significant fall out of accreditation process which of course need to be maintained to derive maximum benefit for the school. Agencies have set up their own platforms to enable schools to network and learn from the accreditation process.

AACSB Exchange is a meeting place for schools and it is also a sort of alumni networking platform for AACSB schools and even faculty from schools who attend AACSB events

EFMD's corporate learning improvement process CLIP is a networking platform for working executives

IACBE

SAQS

For more details on the accreditation agencies please click the links given

ACCREDITED SCHOOLS
IN INDIA

AACSB 21
EFMD 8
AMBA 14
ACBSP 17
IACBE 6
SAQS 20

TOTAL 86

Triple crown accreditation

Triple crown accreditation refers to a business school being accredited by the three most prestigious international accreditation bodies for business schools, namely AACSB,EFMD & AMBA. In india there are three such schools ISB Hyderabad, IIM C & IIM Indore

More accreditation agencies permitted to join the International Accreditation agencies listing USA

The United States is divided into six accreditation regions: New England, Middle States, North Central, Southern, Western and Northwest. Seven accrediting commissions operate in these regions. All regional accrediting commissions are institutional accreditation bodies. They have been recently permitted to undertake international accreditation like the three accreditation bodies, AACSB, ACBSP and IACBE.