On August 31, the London headquarters of the Association of MBAs (AMBA) notified the School of Economics and Management at USTB that its MBA program had passed re-accreditation and been granted the maximum five-year accreditation term.
This is the fourth time SEM has received AMBA accreditation, having first obtained it in 2013, followed by re-accreditation in 2016 and 2021.
On June 12–13, an AMBA review panel chaired by Professor Veneta Andonova, former Dean of the School of Management at Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, conducted an on-site visit. The panel also included Professor Jean Chen of Kent Business School at the University of Kent, Professor Zhongming Wang of Zhejiang University, and Joseph Pilkington, Senior Accreditation Manager at the AMBA & BGA London office.
The panel met with nearly 100 people, including School administrators, MBA faculty, admissions and career services staff, students, alumni, and employers, and reviewed strategic plans, teaching materials, research output, and employment data. University President Zhaoping Lu and Vice President Shuqiang Jiao also met with the panel.
The panel praised the program's distinctive features, educational quality, and social impact, while recommending further internationalization and industry-university cooperation.
Wei Gu, Dean of the School, thanked the panel and said SEM would take this re-accreditation as an opportunity to benchmark itself against elite international business education standards.
AMBA is one of the world's three leading business education accreditation bodies, alongside AACSB and EQUIS, and focuses on the quality of MBA programs.
