Triple accreditation
Triple accreditation, also known as Triple Crown accreditation, is the combination of accreditations held by 100 business schools worldwide, awarded by the three largest and most influential business school accreditation organizations:
- AACSB - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
- AMBA - The Association of MBAs
- EQUIS - EFMD Quality Improvement System
Accreditation comparison
Each of the three institutions assesses a business school according to different criteria and scope:- Scope of accreditation
- Duration of the accreditation process
- Reaccreditation
- School audit team
- Evaluation report content
- Criteria/Standards size
- Quantitative vs Qualitative
- Internationalization
- Faculty numbers
- Visiting faculty
- Research
- Program-specific criteria
- : AACSB has no program-specific standards since it evaluates the entire university.
- : AMBA has program-specific criteria such as:
- ** at least 3 years of full-time work experience for all admitted MBA students;
- ** at least 500 contact hours for a full-time MBA curriculum and a minimum of 120 contact hours for a distance-learning MBA;
- ** at least 20 students enrolled in an MBA program;
- : EQUIS has some program-specific standards in the context of the evaluation of the entire business school.
- Accreditation fees
Schools List by Country / Regions
Argentina
- IAE Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires
Australia
- QUT Business School, Queensland University of Technology
- Monash University
- The University of Sydney Business School
Austria
- Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna
Belgium
- Vlerick Business School, Ghent
Brazil
- EAESP - Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo
- Insper, São Paulo
Canada
- HEC Montreal, Montreal
- Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Chile
- Adolfo Ibáñez University, Santiago
China
- Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Beijing Institute of Technology
- Lingnan College, Sun Yat-sen University
- Sun Yat-sen Business School, Sun Yat-sen University
- School of Economics and Management, Tongji University
- University of International Business and Economics
- Zhejiang University
- Xiamen University
Hong Kong
- School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist University
Costa Rica
- INCAE Business School, Alajuela
Colombia
- Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Administración, Bogota
Denmark
- Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen
- Aarhus University BSS, Aarhus
Egypt
- American University in Cairo, Cairo.
Finland
- Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki
- Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki and Vaasa
France
- Audencia Nantes
- EDHEC
- EMLYON Business School
- ESC Rennes School of Business
- ESSCA School of Management
- ESSEC Business School
- Grenoble School of Management
- HEC Paris
- ICN Business School
- IÉSEG School of Management
- INSEAD
- KEDGE Business School
- La Rochelle Business School
- Montpellier Business School
- NEOMA Business School
- Toulouse Business School
Germany
- European School of Management and Technology
- Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
- Mannheim Business School
- TUM School of Management
India
- Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
- Indian Institute of Management Indore
- Indian School of Business, which became the 100th Triple Accredited institution in the world, upon achieving AMBA accreditation on May 12, 2020.
Ireland
- University College Dublin, Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business/UCD Quinn School of Business
Italy
- SDA Bocconi School of Management, Milan
Mexico
- EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mexico City.
- Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico City.
The Netherlands
- Maastricht University, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht
- Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam
- University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Business School, Amsterdam
New Zealand
- University of Auckland Business School, Auckland
- University of Waikato Faculty of Management, Hamilton
- Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria Business School, Wellington
- University of Canterbury Business School, Christchurch
Nicaragua
- INCAE Business School
Norway
- BI Norwegian Business School
Peru
- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - CENTRUM
Poland
- Kozminski University, Warsaw
Portugal
- Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics
- Nova School of Business and Economics
Singapore
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business
Slovenia
- SEB LU - School of Economics and Business
South Africa
- University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, Cape Town
- University of Stellenbosch Business School, Cape Town
Spain
- ESADE Business School and ESADE University Faculties, Barcelona
- IE Business School, Madrid
- IESE Barcelona
Sweden
- School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg
Switzerland
- IMD Lausanne
- University of St. Gallen
Thailand
- , Thammasat University, Bangkok
USA
- Hult International Business School, Campuses in Boston, San Francisco, London, Shanghai, and Dubai
UK
- Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow
- Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
- Aston Business School, Aston University
- Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham
- Bradford University School of Management, University of Bradford
- Cass Business School, City University London
- Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University
- Durham University Business School, Durham University
- University of Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh University
- University of Exeter Business School, University of Exeter
- Henley Business School, University of Reading
- Imperial College Business School
- Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
- Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds
- London Business School
- Loughborough University School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University
- Manchester Metropolitan University Business School
- Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle University
- Open University Business School
- University of Sheffield Management School, University of Sheffield
- Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde
- Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Venezuela
- Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración
Institutions that have lost Triple Accreditation
- ESCP Business School
- Skema Business School
- City University of Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Queen's University at Kingston
- University of Hull
Top schools without Triple Accreditation
Another reason is that most of the schools that have obtained AACSB accreditation in the US and Canada do not look outside of North America for further validation.