GDUFS School of Business Passes AMBA Accreditation

On May 14th, 2015, at the AMBA’s (Association of AMBAs) Global Conference for Deans and Directors in Prague, Czech, ZHU Wenzhong, Executive Dean of the School of Business, received the AMBA accreditation certificate from Sir Paul Judge, the Chairman of AMBA, which marks that the MBA programme of the School of Business has met the criteria of AMBA and the School becomes No. 26 in China and No. 225 in the world as an AMBA-accredited business school.

Photo 1：ZHU Wenzhong receives AMBA Accreditation Certificate from Sir Paul Judge

AMBA is the international impartial authority on postgraduate business education, established in 1967 by a small group of business graduates with the aim to raise the profile of business education and the MBA qualification in UK and Europe. Its accreditation service is the global standard for all MBA, DBA and MBM programmes. It currently accredits only 2% of high quality business schools, totaling 225, including Oxford and Cambridge University business schools, in over 70 countries.

The School of Business launched AMBA accreditation in March 2012 and obtained the candidacy in June 2014. Ever since the beginning of the AMBA journey, the University leadership attached great importance to the accreditation and established the Leading Group for AMBA Accreditation with Chairman SUI Guangjun as the Advisor and President ZHONG Weihe as the Head. Vice President HE Chuantian, who is also Dean of the School, is personally in charge of the accreditation and together with the management team of the School has adopted various measures to improve the strategy and operation of both the MBA programme and the School. By early this year, with the guidance of AMBA accreditation, the University completed the restructuring of the business discipline, forming of new school leadership, revision of the MBA curriculum, improvement of the library resources and lab facility, etc..

On March 26 and 27, 2015, the School received the assessment visit by four AMBA assessors. During the visit, the assessors met and talked with leadership of both the University and the School, visited teaching facilities, and discussed with employers, students, alumni and faculty.

Photo 2：SUI Guangjun, ZHONG Weihe, SHI Youqi, HE Chuantian and the AMBA assessors

Photo 3: ZHONG Weihe talks with Andrew Lock, Chairman of the AMBA delegation

Photo 4: ZHONG Weihe gives welcome remark in the session of School report

Photo 5: SUI Guangjun, ZHONG Weihe, SHI Youqi, HE Chuantian, the School leadership and the AMBA assessors

Photo 6: ZHONG Weihe, HE Chuantian, YUAN Denghua andrepresentativesof outstanding alumni

In the feedback session, the AMBA assessors regarded the following as commendations of the University and the School: the commitment of the President and the leadership of the University to the MBA programme and to AMBA accreditation; the efforts that have already been made to endeavour to meet the AMBA accreditation standards and the positive and constructive approach to the suggestions and recommendations made at earlier stages of the process; the main MBA teaching rooms are of a good quality and well-suited to MBA teaching; the Bilingual MBA is a welcome development which makes the MBA accessible to a wider range of potential students without compromising its distinctive strengths; and the presentation of the corporate links in the self-audit documentation is one of the best the panel has seen in China.

Photo 7：AMBA assessors visit labs on South Campus

Photo 8: AMBA assessors visit the library on South Campus

Photo 9: XU Zhichao, LIANG Jie and LUO Haiyang listen to feedback from employers about lunch meeting with the assessors

Photo 10: ZHU Wenzhong, YUAN Denghua and Jessie Jia listen to feedback from faculty about meeting with the assessors

Photo 11: YUAN Denghua and Jessie Jia with students and alumni representatives

The endorsement of AMBA accreditation marks the recognition of the GDUFS MBA programme by international impartial authority on business education, and is an important milestone in the development of internationalisation of the University, the School and the MBA programme.