CoME Re-accredited by AMBA

On February 13, 2019, Tianjin University’s College of Management and Economics (CoME) received an official notice from the headquarters of the Association of MBAs (AMBA) that the college will be granted an unconditional international certificate of accreditation with a longest period of 5 years.

Party Secretary Jia-jun Li (in the middle) takes a photo with AMBA accreditation experts.

On November 19-20, 2018, CoME welcomed the re-accreditation of MBA/EMBA/MPA programs by the accreditation experts from AMBA. The re-accreditation expert group is composed of Andrew Lock, Honorary Professor of Business School of Leeds University, Robert O'Connor, Executive Director of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Graduate School of Business (GSB) and for QUTeX, Zhong-ming Wang, Senior Professor of Liberal Arts of Zhejiang University, and George Iliev, Director of Development Markets of AMBA.

Deng-hua Zhong, President of Tianjin University, and Jia-jun Li, Party Secretary of Tianjin University met with the accreditation experts.

The expert group comprehensively evaluated the MBA/EMBA/MPA programs in strategic positioning, talent cultivation characteristics and quality assurance systems. The strategic adjustment and achievements made by the college after the first accreditation were fully affirmed.

AMBA accreditation experts meet with employers and alumni representatives

Founded in the UK in 1967, AMBA is an independent organization that specializes in the quality certification of MBA programs. AMBA is an international accreditation system for MBA programs of business schools. It is one of the world's three major business education accreditation organizations and one of the most authoritative management education accreditation systems in the world.

Tianjin University passed the five-year AMBA accreditation in November 2013. In the past five years,CoME has adhered to the international accreditation standards, constantly improved and innovated the MBA/EMBA/MPA program, and focused on optimizing the course setting so as to constantly improve on the international level, and strengthen the "double first-class" construction of the university.

By February 2019, 36 business schools in mainland China have passed the AMBA accreditation.

By theCollege of Management and Economics

Editors: Eva Yin & Doris Harrignton