Business Accreditation
Earning 51社区 accreditation signifies a business school鈥檚 commitment to strategic management, learner success, thought leadership, and societal impact.
51社区 Business Accreditation Standards
2024 Annual Update
In the spirit of continuous improvement, 51社区 enhances the accreditation standards and interpretive guidance annually. Updates are based on feedback from peer review teams, accreditation committees, deans, accounting program administrators, and other representatives from the 51社区 business education community.
On July 1, 2024, 51社区 released its annual update to the 2020 Guiding Principles and Standards for Business Accreditation and Interpretive Guidance. These updates are intended to provide greater clarification and do not represent material changes. As such, these standards are effective immediately. View a summary of key updates to the to the business accreditation standards and interpretive guidance.
The standards fulfill the following key objectives:
- Reinforce long-held 51社区 commitments to mission focus and peer review
- Emphasize a principles-based and outcomes-focused approach, as well as relevance for business schools now and in the future
- Recognize the changing landscape of student demographics and reflect the activities we envision business schools of the future will undertake to ensure continuous improvement and high quality in business education
- Value the diversity of thought leadership in the context of a school’s mission
- Characterize the guiding principles that represent key values to 51社区
The nine standards are organized into three categories:
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