now has the largest pool of accredited schools in India

Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) of USA accredited four new schools in the recent months taking the total number of the agency's accredited schools to Seven, making it the leading international accreditation agency in India with maximum number of accreditation already completed. The agency also has several leading schools including Great Lakes Institute, Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship, Lovely Professional University among others as candidate schools.

"I am extremely happy that our accredited schools list in India is growing which is also a sign that Indian B-schools are aggressively going global", says Douglas Viehland, Executive Director of ACBSP. "Our fraternity in India is getting strong and we would expect to work with our international peers even outside India", explains R Nandagopal, Director of PSG Institute of management Coimbatore, first accredited school of ACBSP in India. Dr Nandagopal is also first Indian to be appointed as a Commissioner of the the International Agency. "Our work involves looking at the applications not only from India, but from around the world" Nandagopal says.

The list includes Ramaiah Institute of Management Sciences (RIMS) whose Senior Advisor and Emeritus Professor of Strategy, Dr B V Krishnamurthy has also been selected as the Best Global Faculty of the Year by the ACBSP.

For RIMS, the ACBSP Accreditation is the second one after it received its IACBE Accreditation in April. "It is a matter of great pride to us that we are the first Indian B-School to achieve dual recognition in a short period. We also got the best peer review comments from both the assessment teams", Krishnamurthy of RIMS says.

ACBSP Accredited Schools in India
	Regional College of Management Bhubaneshwar	Ramaiah Institute of Management (RIMS)Bangalore
SCMS Group Cochin	ICBM School of Business Excellence Hyderabad	Have you registered for the International Accreditation Outcomes Workshop at Bangalore on August 29, 2012?
Amity Business School, Noida	Coimbatore
SEAA, having started the Advocacy and Facilitation effort for International Accreditation barely four years ago feels vindicated that the Indian B-schools have become pioneers and model institutions to take up international accreditation for connecting with the world's best peer schools. SEAA feels it a great pride to play a small part in this aggressive global expansion of Indian Management School community. We will continue to support the Quality building efforts of Indian B-schools by continuously holding agency neutral conferences, workshops, training programmes and publication of material for the use of the accrediting schools. As the ACBSP accredited schools expand, we would also be there to support maintenance of accreditation which is a key aspect of continuing to remain and grow with accreditation status

RIMS ACHIEVES DUAL GLOBAL ACCREDITATION
IACBE & ACBSP

B V Krishnamurthy
Chief Academic Officer and Distinguished Professor of Strategy and IB
RIMS, Bangalore

It is a moment of joy tempered by humility for the RIMS family as the institution becomes the first B-School in the country to achieve two global accreditations in the same year. Both ACBSP – the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs and IACBE – International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education have accredited RIMS in a record time. Both the accreditations have been accorded with high commendations on all the standards / principles.
Having been associated closely with Accreditation and Quality Systems for a decade now, I am clear in my mind that the future belongs to institutions that are willing to place their processes for peer group scrutiny, disclose all relevant information to key stakeholders, and are committed to the cause of continuous improvement not as a rhetoric but as the cornerstone of their educational philosophy and values.
Working with a team of young and highly motivated professionals has been a fascinating experience for me. Indian schools are second to none on several parameters. What is needed is the overcoming of a mental block and the realization that research is a key driver for success in education. Also, sensitivity to the less privileged sections of society and the transference of such an attribute to the young managers is a vital ingredient in the pursuit of excellence.
For us at RIMS, quality has been and will always remain a journey, never a destination. We will keep striving to reach greater heights and to fathom uncharted waters in a collegial, collaborative and competitive environment but in a spirit of camaraderie and recognition that management is akin to mountain-climbing: we are all dependent on each other even as we try to reach our individual potential.
I dedicate the Accreditations and the accolades that have come simultaneously (“Education Leader of the Year” by IACBE and “Teaching Excellence Award for Region 10” by ACBSP) to my earliest teachers who imbibed the quest for excellence in me, to all the other teachers and mentors who followed and nurtured the quest, to my Director Dr. M R Pattabhiram for his extraordinary support, encouragement and understanding, to all of my colleagues who are a constant source of inspiration, and above all, to my students who are the heart and soul of this adventure.

The International Assembly of Collegiate Business Education (IACBE), the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) recognised international accreditation agency has recognised two Bangalore based schools taking its tally of accreditations to three and total accreditations by international accreditation agencies in India to 13! The two institutes to be accredited were

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T A Pai Institute of Management gets AACSB International Accreditation

T A Pai Management Institute(TAPMI) Manipal, became the second Indian school to get the AACSB International Accreditation after a long wait of nearly a decade! "It is a matter of pride that we have been able to get the AACSB accreditation which is the highest endorsement of quality of any B-school around the world", says R C Natarajan, Director of TAPMI. AACSB Accreditation also puts TAPMI in the league some of the world's most renowned schools which are part of the AACSB approved schools. In India, the first school to get the AACSB Accreditation barely a few months ago was Indian Schools of Business (ISB) Hyderabad. In all there are 11 schools which are international accredited in India. There are a number of schools waiting on the wing to gain the AACSB Accreditation. "It is a good thing that we have second school in India which is accredited by us", acknowledges, the senior Vice President of AACSB International who runs the first overseas HQ of AACSB in Singapore.
SEAA has tracked the TAPMI accreditation process closely and even assisted in informally assessment the state of preparedness of the school in the final run up to the Peer Review Team visit which was one of the last significant steps in the Accreditation process of AACSB.

Jim Herbolich of EFMD passes!

We deeply regret and mourn the demise of one of the most passionate global champions for accreditation, Jim Herbolich(1949-2012), Head of Accreditation of EQUIS-EFMD . We fondly recall his presence and quiet counseling at our annual conference in the year 2009. Prof. Jim Herbolich has been involved in education for more than 35 years and is currently the Director of Network Services at EFMD, where he is overall in charge of Membership, Business School Services, Corporate Services, and Research and Surveys/ He is also a faculty member of the Human Resources Management Department of ESADE in Barcelona, Spain. At the EFMD, Prof. Herbolich has worked on the development of regional quality standards for management education in Central Asia and South Asia and the development of business school networks in the Middle East and Africa. Prof. Herbolich is on the Board of Directors of EFQUEL (European Foundation for Quality in eLearning) and on the International Advisory Council for the Institute of Business Administration Karachi, Pakistan. He also serves on the Accreditation Board of ABEST 21 in Tokyo, Japan and is on the Advisory Board for the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG).Prof. Herbolich represents the EFMD at the meetings of RABE, the Russian Association of Business Education, and AAPBS, the Association of Asia Pacific Business Schools.Prof. Herbolich has been managing the EFMD CEL (teChnology-Enhanced Learning) Accreditation---the EFMD accreditation for ICT based learning programmes since its inception in 2003.

May his soul rest in peace!

NBA's spectacular 1st Accreditation Summit

The National Board of Accreditation (NBA) of Government of India Ministry of HRD conducted a Four day spectacular Show which brought together close 1200 participants over a four day period between March 25-28, 2012 in New Delhi's Ashok Hotel. The Summit,brought together for the first time, nearly 700 top Engineering colleges, Universities, both public and private and Independent Business Schools to discuss a range of issues relating to Engineering, Management and other Professional Higher Education segments


Robert D Reid is AACSB Accreditation Head!

Tampa, FL, USA (Feb 14, 2012)—Robert D. Reid, former dean at James Madison University's College of Business & the school's founding Executive Director of the Interpersonal Effectiveness Institute, He will succeed Jerry Trapnell as AACSB Intl's chief accreditation officer on October 1, 2012. Trapnell, who has served as executive vice president. more

 

ISB Hyderabad- 1st AACSB School in India

 

Indian School of Business, Hyderabad celebrating its 10th anniversary beginning Dec 2, has become the 1st Indian Business school & for that matter 1st B-school in South Asia to be accredited by AACSB International. It has been a long wait for ISB Hyderabad which had begun the process more than 7years earlier. The school ranked No 13 by the Financial Times London, adds AACSB accreditation to its roll of honors.

Jerry Trapnell gets Award

Tampa, FL, USA (February 14, 2011)—AACSB International is proud to announce that Jerry Trapnell, executive vice president and chief accreditation officer, has received the 2011 Federation of Schools of Accountancy–Joseph A. Silvoso Faculty Merit Award. As the highest award given by the Federation of Schools of Accountancy (FSA), the Silvoso Award honors an outstanding contribution by a faculty member in a post-baccalaureate professional program of an FSA member school. Detailed report

IIM Kozhikode gets

The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode is the third B-school in the country to get Association of MBAs accreditation. The accreditation was granted to the school in late January 2011. IIM K joins the company of MDI Gurgaon and S P Jain as AMBA accredited schools. Debasish Chatterjee, Director of IIM K is happy that his school got its first international accreditation certification from Association of MBAs. The Accreditation Services Manger of Association of MBAs, Mark Stoddard hopes that the IIM K accreditation would be followed with more B-schools of India getting their certification. SEAA had worked closely with Association of MBAs to introduce their process in the country to scores of Indian B-schools at the events organised jointly with the London based agency. "It is a pleasure and privilege to know that Association of MBAs has certified yet another school in the country. There would certainly be more schools that would qualify for international accreditation in the country", says Chairman of SEAA A.Thothathri Raman.

Global Management Guru Award

India has instituted for the first time an award to recognize the outstanding contributors to management thought , the annual Global Management Guru Award. A top B-school belonging to the House of Birlas—the B K Birla group—based in Greater Noida in New Delhi NCR region, Birla Institute of Management and Technology (BIMTECH) has instituted the award. The Emory professor of marketing and strategy, Prof Jagdish Sheth has been selected for the first annual award which will carry a citation and half a million rupees purse.

“It is a sheer coincidence that an Indian has been chosen from among 13 outstanding scholars in management education and practice the Jury team had considered for the award”, explains Dr Pritam Singh, chairman of the Award’s 23member Jury team . The initial short list was made from an independent poll conducted around the world with B-school leadership and corporate honchos and the Jury team comprising of whos who of the industria and academia from around the world made the final selection of the awardee. A coffee table book describing the achievements of all the shortlisted management Gurus along with indepth features on state of the art of management education has also been released as part of the award ceremony. Download

3 New Schools receive EQUIS Accreditation with a further 10 receiving re-accreditation

EFMD would like to warmly congratulate 3 new schools who were awarded EQUIS accreditation on Thursday, 9 December 2010.

• Lingnan (University) College, China
• Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
• School of Business, Renmin University of China, China more

AACSB adds 11 more to its list of accreditations

AACSB has announced the inclusion of 11 institutions of higher learning from nine countries recently in it list of accredited schools taking the total of AACSB accredited schools to 607 schools. These are from 37 countries. Additionally, 47 schools have maintained their accreditation in business and nine have maintained their accreditation in accounting. more

AACSB Panel on Accreditation Quality

AACSB has announced the formation of a new Blue Ribbon Committee on Accreditation Quality (BRC). This global committee of business and business school experts will evaluate the state of readiness of AACSB's accreditation standards and processes to ensure the alignment of business practice and management education. The panel includes Ajit Rangnekar, Dean of Indian School of Business  Hyderabad.(more)

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The Brussels based European Federation Management Development (EFMD) has accorded its second accreditation to an Indian B-school, this time Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B). "We are delighted at IIMB to have received the EQUIS accreditation. It is indeed an honour to join a select group of schools globally," Prof. Pankaj Chandra IIM B director says. Earlier in the year IIM Ahmedabad became the first B-school in India to get EQUIS. The accreditation system was created in 1997 by a mandate of EFMD's member business schools including Bocconi, HEC Paris, IESE, IMD, INSEAD, ESADE, London Business School, and Rotterdam School of Management. more

IACBE opens its India Office

International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE) has established its India office at Alliance Business Academy, a leading business school at Bangalore. The Top Five international accrediting body from the USA sees good possibilities for accrediting Indian B-schools. It began with accrediting two schools of the Alliance group. Founded in 1997, the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE) is a specialized accrediting body that accredits business and business related programs, both in the United States and internationally. The IACBE is one of the three organizations which accredit business programs both at the graduate and undergraduate level, the other two being AACSB and ACBSP.

The IACBE specializes in the accreditation needs of educational institutions whose primary purpose is excellence in teaching and learning. The IACBE’s innovative assessment approach to accreditation asserts the exceptional quality and outreach of the business program that students and employers alike have come to demand. Currently, the IACBE has over 230 members in more than 20 countries throughout the world and has accredited over 160 programs till date.

IACBE Address:
c/o Alliance Business School
Chikkahagade Cross
Chandapur – Anekal Main Road
Anekal, Bangalore – 562106
Karnataka, India

AACSB opens Asian HQ office at Singapore

The Asian headquarters of AACSB International has been opened. The Asian office was started formally at a simple ceremony attended by people belonging to around 50 organizations and academic institutions from 14 countries on June 4,. showing the power of global networking world's oldest and most respected accrediting agency. Rick Cosier, chairman of the Board of AACSB and John Fernandes, president and chief executive officer of AACSB were present at the office opening along with Dr. Swan Gin Beh, managing director of the Singapore Economic Development Board.

AACSB International's Asia HQ address and numbers:

AACSB International Asia
HQ331 North Bridge Road
#08-07Odeon Towers
Singapore 188720
Tel: +65 6592 5210 Fax: +65 6339 6511 more from AACSB International

Asian Universities Ranking is out

Topuniversities.com has come up with its Asian universities ranking for the current year covering 200 universities. The following is the list of top ten ranking with the tenth rank being shared by two universities.

For more detail please follow this link.

Dr Pritam Singh Joins Association of MBAs Board

An eminent B-School expert and former director of Indian Institute of Management Lucknow IIM-L and MDI Gurgaon and currently Emeritus Professor of MDI, Dr Pritam Singh has been invited to join the International Accreditation Advisory Board (IAAB) of Association of MBAs one of the top three global accreditation agencies. Dr Singh is the first Indian to join any international accreditation advisory bodies. The appointment of Dr Singh is an endorsement of his extensive work in the promotion and development of business education in India. He joins the 20 member IAAB of Association of MBAs popularly known as AMBA. Dr Singh also is the recipient of one of the highest civilian honours Padmashree for his work in education from the Government of India. The next formal meeting of the IAAB will be held in London on Tuesday 13th - Wednesday 14th October 2009 in London. The list of IAAB members can be downloaded from this link.

Dr Singh's joining the IAAB was first proposed during the two day international conference of Association of MBAs held in association with Standards for Educational Advancement & Accreditation SEAA at New Delhi on November 10 & 11, 2008.

German Swiss Accreditation Co-operation

The German accreditation facilitation agency Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation FIBAA has signed an agreement with the Associaton of Swiss Student Bodies VSS for getting recognition as an accreditation agency from the Swiss Federal National Economy Department (EVD, Berne). The agreement would enable FIBAA can inspect Higher Education Institutions HEIs, which have applied for accreditation in Switzerland. The association is already active as an experienced accreditation partner to Swiss. The VSS, operating from Zurich from 1920 represents the student bodies of faculties, HEIs and universities at federal level. For more details contact at FIBAA: Dr. Heinz-Ulrich Schmidt (schmidt@fibaa.org)

"Accreditation Process Must be Improved"

Business education is booming in India, but the bulk of rank-and-file programs in the country suffer from outdated textbooks, professors who don't keep up with economic trends, and narrow curriculums, according to a recently released report by an Indian business group quoted in Business Week magazine's June 3, 2008 datelined report on international b-schools says.

The Business Barometer study by the the Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India (Assocham), the country's leading chamber of commerce organization was released in June. It found that beyond the top 30 institutions, most business school professors and lecturers in India's business schools are ignorant of the world's major economic trends and key developments, such as the subprime crisis in the U.S. Few read business publications.

The study's author, Jyoti Bhutani, called the findings "shocking," adding that Indian businesses are finding it difficult to get top-quality graduates. She said there is "a huge gap" between the pay packages offered to grads of top Indian business schools (BusinessWeek.com, 4/13/08) and those provided to grads of the lesser institutions.

"As the teachers themselves are ill-informed, even the students remain unaware of real-world developments," Bhutani said. "It has a direct bearing on the employability of the students."

Adding to the problem is a patchwork of more than a dozen accreditation agencies in India. The National Knowledge Commission, which serves as an advisory group to India's Prime Minister, criticized existing Indian regulators and accreditation bodies in a 2006 report.

"There are several instances where an engineering college or a business school is approved, promptly, in a small house of a metropolitan suburb without the requisite teachers, infrastructure, or facilities, but established universities experience difficulties in obtaining similar approvals," the commission wrote in the report.

M.S. Shyamsundar, deputy adviser for the government-run National Assessment & Accreditation Council, said his agency had accredited about 15 business schools, all of which adhered to his agency's strict criteria and guidelines. He acknowledged that the academic quality of business schools varies widely throughout the country. "I think we have different shades of quality institutions, ranging from very mediocre to very good," Shyamsundar said in a telephone interview.

Accreditation Must Be Improved

He said he hopes more business schools will come forward for accreditation in the next few years, a step that will go a long way to improve the reputation of these management institutions. "Quality is one of the pressing concerns," he said. "This is why we are asking them to come forward for accreditation. Once they do this, the schools can know their strengths and weaknesses."

John Fernandes, president of the U.S.-based AACSB, said his agency is working with four or five of the top Indian business schools that are seeking AACSB accreditation. Most are members of the "elite" business school cadre in India, known as India Institute of Managements. None of the top Indian business schools has accreditation from AACSB, one of the leading business school accrediting agencies.

Setting a high standard for Indian business schools by satisfying a quality accrediting agency is an important step for Indian business schools, said Assocham's Bhutani. An improved accreditation process would have a ripple effect on all Indian business schools, he continued, forcing them to improve the quality of teachers, materials, and professional development