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MBA graduates celebrate success as School marks triple accreditation

The Open University Business School has been awarded accreditation by the US-based AACSB International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business).

The Open University Business School already holds EQUIS accreditation, granted by the European Foundation for Management Development (efmd), and its MBA programme has been accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) since 1986.

This year more than 620 students have completed their MBA at the Open University Business School bringing its total number of MBA graduates to more than 15,000.

The AACSB International accreditation was officially conferred at the association’s international conference in San Francisco on April 21, where Professor James Fleck, OU Business School Dean, and Dr Mark Fenton-O’Creevy, Director of Programmes and Curriculum, represented the School.

Prof Fleck said the official conferment of the accreditation represented a major achievement for the School. "To be the first non-campus-based School to be awarded the accreditation is a success of which our students, staff and graduates can all be proud.

"AACSB International is the longest established accreditation body in this sector in the world and is primarily focussed on North America – the home of the business school concept.

"The exceptional achievement, which puts the School in an elite group of no more than 25 business schools worldwide to be accredited by all three management education associations, is clear evidence of the quality for which we are renowned and shows that we rank with the best in the world.

"The conferment of the accreditation is a timely one, as our latest MBA graduates start to attend the university’s degree ceremonies and celebrate their own successes and their hard work and dedication to their studies. The AACSB International accreditation ensures that the wider business, education and public sector communities – to which these graduates, our students and our alumni are contributing so much – are aware of the quality of the OU Business School awards."

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