AACSB
Currently, the College of Managememt proactively promotes AACSB Accreditation and got accreditated on July 20.
Introduction
AACSB International (AACSB), a global nonprofit association, connects educators, students, and business to achieve a common goal: to create the next generation of great leaders.
Synonymous with the highest standards of excellence since 1916, AACSB provides quality assurance, business education intelligence, and learning and development services to over 1,700 member organizations and more than 900 accredited business schools worldwide. As of December 2021, there are currently 40 AACSB educational member institutions in Taiwan, and 27 schools (out of 40) were accredited.
AACSB-Accreditation Standards
AACSB’s business accreditation standards have continued to be revised to improve relevancy, maintain currency, and increase value. Most recently, the Business Accreditation Task Force spent over a year and a half working on improving the business standards to meet the needs of future business school learners, of global business, and of society in general. The outcome of the task force’s work is the 2020 Guiding Principles and Standards for Business Accreditation, adopted by the AACSB Accreditation Council on July 28, 2020. The following is the comparison of 2020 standards and 2013 standards.
AACSB-Official Accreditation Journey
The official accreditation journey can be simplified and separated into 13 steps.
- Submit application of an educational member of AACSB and start to pay Annual Accreditation Fee.
- Become an educational member of AACSB. (The school can attend seminars held by AACSB)
- Submit unit of accreditation application
- Submit Eligibility Application (EA) and pay one-time fee due following submission of the eligibility application.
- Eligibility Application approved. AACSB assigns a staff liaison and a volunteer business school administrator (such as a dean) to the applicant school as a mentor to assist with the development of an initial self-evaluation report (iSER). The school is required to pay one-time Initial Accreditation Committee Process Acceptance Fee and Initial Accreditation Fee.
- Mentor can choose to have on-site visit to applicant school.
- Submit iSER to Initial Accreditation Committees (IAC) for review.
- iSER is approved by IAC and start to apply for initial accreditation.
- Peer-reviewed Team (PRT) Members are confirmed.
- Applicant school submits Self-Evaluation Report.
- PRT member on-site visit.
- Recommendations for accreditation are ratified by the IAC and forwarded to the AACSB board of directors for ratification.
- Continuous Improvement Review
