Beedie School of Business News

*Total AACSB/EQUIS accredited schools in 2010 in Canada were 20. (18 AACSB accredited of which 7 were EQUIS accredited, plus two EQUIS accredited schools. The four accredited schools in 2010 that did not participate or did not have the appropriate data to participate are: Dalhousie, St. Mary’s, McMaster (all AACSB accredited) and UQAM (EQUIS accredited).
** 2005 data for the University of Manitoba was not available.

A new ranking of globally accredited Canadian business schools based on research productivity has positioned the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University as tops in Western Canada, and among an elite group of management schools across Canada.

The survey, published by the Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria, was first presented to the Canadian Federation of Business School Deans (CFBSD) and focuses on schools accredited by EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) and/or AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business).

The Beedie School of Business is ranked second nationally in the report with a score of 1.69, only 0.02 points behind the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Rounding out the top five schools were the University of British Columbia, the University of Alberta and the University of Western Ontario. Keep reading…

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VANCOUVER– The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University has been awarded EQUIS re-accreditation for a five-year period, an achievement that puts the school among an elite class of business schools globally.

EQUIS is an international system of quality assessment, improvement and accreditation of higher education institutions in management and business administration. The accreditation body is run by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), and strives to raise the standard of management education worldwide.

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The Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University is pleased to announce that it has maintained its accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) for a period of five years.

The business school, with campuses in Burnaby, Surrey and downtown Vancouver, is home to Canada’s first Executive MBA program and one of Canada’s largest undergraduate programs. It was first accredited by AACSB in 2006. Since that time, it has continued to grow its reputation as one of the country’s leading teaching and learning settings, and for producing global-class research for the knowledge economy.

The renewed distinction puts Beedie in an elite class of business and management schools globally. AACSB accreditation is considered a hallmark of excellence in business education and has been earned by less than five percent of the world’s business schools.

Founded in 1916, AACSB International is the longest serving global accrediting body for business schools that offer undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral degrees in business and accounting. Meeting the AACSB accreditation standards requires a high-quality teaching environment, a commitment to continuous improvement, and curricula responsive to the needs of businesses. In addition, as required by the AACSB standards, all accredited schools must go through a peer review process every five years in order to maintain their accreditation.

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