PHBS Earns AMBA Accreditation
17 May 2019
Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS) has officially received accreditation from AMBA (The Association of MBAs) in May and is among only 2% of business schools from over 70 countries to hold AMBA accreditation. Last year, PHBS was accredited by AACSB, which has the broadest scope and grants university-wide accreditation.
“Being granted AMBA accreditation is an international recognition to our endeavour of business education and our MBA and EMBA programs in particular,” said PHBS Founding Dean Wen Hai. “We will continue to build up a top international business school and take this accreditation as the beginning of an ongoing, continuous improvement process for our executive training programs.”
Founded in 1967, AMBA describes itself as “the impartial authority on postgraduate management education” and accredits only the MBA portfolio within a business school. Among its requirements is that MBA applicants must have at least three years of full-time work experience.
The AMBA team was impressed by the school’s rapid development and extensive achievements. Among several quality indicators, the team recognized the school’s high-quality facilities and faculty, a strong commitment to internationalization, the rigorous assessment in courses and dissertations, strict admission for MBA and EMBA, and entrepreneurial spirit and culture.
Offering challenging coursework in MBA and EMBA programs that underpins innovation, business expertise, and ethical practices, PHBS requires five years’ managerial experience for the EMBA program. Therefore, PHBS has strong connections with the corporate world and provides students with practical cases that relate management theories to students’ work experience. According to the feedback from the peer review team, “This is reflected in the learning experience in the different courses: students were very positive about the current business awareness of faculty members.”
The two schools signed an agreement in 2016 to offer the MBA-MSF (Master of Business Administration–Master of Science in Finance) dual degree program. Students admitted into the program complete their MBA courses at PHBS in their first year and then study for the MSF degree at ZSB in their second year.
(Report by Annie Jin. Edited by Priscilla Young & Zoë Toone)
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