Triple accreditation

Triple Accreditation is a term meaning that a business school has been accredited by the three largest Business school accreditation associations. Each association assesses different aspects of a business school. For instance AMBA looks specifically at the MBA, whereas EQUIS looks at all aspects of management training and development, whether undergraduate or postgraduate focused. Generally speaking the AACSB accreditation takes the most wide-ranging view of a particular institution, whereas the other two look more specifically at particular aspects of the teaching curriculum, with AMBA being the most narrow in terms of its scope:

• 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 34 have triple accreditation, putting those schools who do have triple acreditation in the 99.2 percentile when ranked by how many accreditations they have.

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. However, it is worth pointing out that because the EQUIS accreditation is not open to all business schools, a number of very high quality (in particular North American) schools are conspicuous by their absence.

Members

• Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
• Ashridge Business School, Ashridge, UK
• Audencia Nantes, Nantes, France
• Bordeaux Ecole de Management, Bordeaux, France
• Brisbane Graduate School of Business, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
• Cranfield School of Management, Bedfordshire, UK
• Durham Business School, Durham University, Durham, UK
• EAESP - Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil
• EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
• EDHEC, Lille & Nice, France
• EM Lyon, France
• ESCP-EAP European School of Management (Paris, London, Madrid, Berlin, Torino)
• ESEC Business School , Barcelona, Spain
• ESADE Business School and ESADE University Faculties, Barcelona, Spain
• Faculty of Business, City University of Hong Kong ,Hong Kong
• FCEE (School of Economics and Business Administration), Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal
• Grenoble School of Management Grenoble, France
• HEC Paris (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales)
• HEC Montreal Montreal, Canada
• Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland
• Henley Management College, Henley, UK
• IMD Lausanne, Switzerland
• IESE Barcelona, Spain
• IE Business School, Madrid, Spain
• Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster, UK
• London Business School, London, UK
• Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
• Mannheim Business School, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
• Open University Business School, UK
• Queen's School of Business, Canada
• Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Toulouse Business School, Toulouse, France
• Maastricht University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Maastricht, The Netherlands
• 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
• University of Waikato, Waikato Management School,Hamilton, New Zealand
• Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Gent, Belgium
• Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK