Professor Bao Guoxian, dean of the School of Management, LZU, and associate professor Zhao Yanhai, deputy director of the MBA Center were invited to the 2015 Global Conference for Deans and Directors from May 13 to 15. At the conference, Sir Paul Judege, Chairman of the meeting, issued the AMBA certificate of accreditation to the School of Management, LZU.
270 deans and directors of MBA program centers of over 100 business schools and colleges from more than 40 countries attended the meeting. They focused on the issues of online MBA education and its combination, development trend, business education innovation and difference, MBA admissions, employer participation and best practices of business education, etc.
During the meeting, Prof. Bao conducted in-depth exchanges with counterparts from internationally well-known business schools. Zhao Yanhai shared best practices of Lanzhou University in MBA education and internationalization.
Background:
AMBA (Association of MBAs), headquartered in London, is one of the world's three leading business school certification systems, mainly for international certification of MBA programs. Its values include integrity, fairness, and caring stakeholders. Currently, only 200 business schools of more than 80 countries and regions are authenticated.
LZU started its AMBA certification efforts at the end of 2012. And it got pre-certificated on May 7, 2014, and on September 15 and 16 of the same year, AMBA certification experts carried out on-site assessment of LZU MBA project. Experts conducted deep and detailed study of the LZU MBA program by listening to the reports by dean, reviewing basic materials, questioning and discussing relevant issues, and holding seminars with representatives of employers, students, distinguished alumni, and faculty, etc. The AMBA Organization believed LZU MBA program had achieved certification standards and agreed to issue AMBA international certification to LZU MBA program with the certification period of three years. In the AMBA Annual Meeting (Asia-Pacific region) held from November12 to 14 2014 in Auckland, New Zealand, the AMBA Organization announced that LZU MBA program got authenticated. LZU MBA program is entitled to cooperate with 222 accredited colleges and universities in the world through mutual recognition of credits, which suggests that the LZU MBA education is fully aligned with the international business education, a major milestone marking the School of Management’ achievements in building a major outstanding business school worldwide.
(Translated by Li Yafeng; proofread by Sissi Xu)
