On Sept. 6th, 2012, School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology received the formal notification letter from Association of MBAs (AMBA) confirmed that the accreditation of HIT’s MBA and Executive MBA programmes have been endorsed by the Association’s International Accreditation Advisory Board (IAAB). The accreditation has been awarded for a period of five years, the maximum period allowed under the current review cycle. SoM, HIT became the first business school which awards AMBA accreditation in the northeast of China, and also is one of the rare business schools which awards AMBA accreditation of five years.
Association of MBAs (AMBA), together with European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) and The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB), are regarded as the three most authoritative international accreditation systems on business education.
The five-year AMBA accreditation of SoM, HIT marks the recognition of HIT’s MBA and Executive MBA programs by international impartial authority, and it’s also a reflection of the great achievements of HIT’s MBA and Executive MBA programs made in the past 20 years and moreover a milestone in the process of internationalization of SoM, HIT. The AMBA accreditation will be of key significance to promote achieving the goals of “To create management knowledge, produce pillars of the society, lead in management practices and make a research-oriented management school that is first-class in the world and leading in Asia”, to learn the advanced educational concepts and practices in the world and to improve SoM’s own educational system so as to build SoM, HIT into a first-class business school up to an international level.
