Triple accreditation

Triple Accreditation is a term meaning that a business school has been accredited by the three largest and most important Business school accreditation associations. Each association assesses a business school according to different criteria. For instance AMBA looks specifically at the MBA content, whereas EQUIS corresponds to an overall business education improvement framework. AACSB takes the most wide-ranging view of a particular institution. EQUIS' scope covers all programmes offered by an institution from the first degree up to the Ph.D. This accreditation is generally viewed as a European standard, AACSB being an American equivalent:

• AACSB - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
• AMBA - The Association of MBAs
• EQUIS - European Quality Improvement System

Of the 3900 business schools, only 50 have triple accreditation.

MBA Ranking

Whilst the AMBA accreditation is the most specific regarding the MBA program, Triple accreditation can be used by many as an alternative, and more reliable, method for reviewing the quality of Business Schools and MBA programs, as the overall quality of the institution itself is rigorously assessed, as opposed to merely aspects of its curriculum.

Members

• Aalto University School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland
• Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
• Ashridge Business School, Berkhamstead, UK
• Audencia Nantes, Nantes, France
• Bordeaux Ecole de Management, Bordeaux, France
• QUT Business School, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
• Cass Business School, City University London, London, UK
• CATÓLICA-LISBON, School of Business & Economics, Lisbon, Portugal
• CENTRUM Católica, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú
• Cranfield School of Management, Bedfordshire, UK
• División Académica de Administración y Contaduría, ITAM, Mexico City, Mexico
• Durham Business School, Durham University, Durham, UK
• EAESP - Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil
• EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
• EDHEC, Lille & Nice, France
• EM Lyon, France
• ESCP-Europe European School of Management (Paris, London, Madrid, Berlin, Turin)
• ESADE Business School and ESADE University Faculties, Barcelona, Spain
• Faculty of Business, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
• Grenoble School of Business Grenoble, France
• HEC Paris (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales)
• HEC Montreal Montreal, Canada
• Hull University Business School, Hull, UK
• Henley Business School, Henley-on-Thames and Reading, UK
• IE Business School, Madrid, Spain
• IESA, Caracas, Venezuela
• IESE Barcelona, Spain
• IMD Lausanne, Switzerland
• INSEAD Fontainebleau, France / Singapore
• Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster, UK
• London Business School, London, UK
• Maastricht University, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht, The Netherlands
• Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
• Mannheim Business School, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany (Undergraduate and Graduate Schools)
• NOVA School of Business and Economics (New University of Lisbon), Lisbon, Portugal
• Open University Business School, UK
• Queen's School of Business, Kingston, Canada
• Reims Management School, Reims, France
• Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Rouen Business School, Rouen, France
• Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
• Toulouse Business School, Toulouse, France /Barcelona, Spain /Casablanca, Morocco
• Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Administración, Bogotá, Colombia
• University College Dublin, Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, Dublin, Ireland
• University of Auckland Business School, Auckland, New Zealand
• University of Strathclyde Graduate School of Business, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
• Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Ghent, Belgium
• Waikato Management School, Hamilton, New Zealand
• Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK
• Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China