The Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA) is recognised accreditation body in all

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(Germany-Switzerland-Austria), FIBAA was founded in 2002 to accredit schools of

business Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit." Having a business name does not separ ...

. Since the launch of the European Bologna Process, along with the transition to bachelor's and master's programs and the growing independence available to

higher education Higher education is tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree. Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after compl ...

institutions (HEIs) in designing their degree programs, the call for the HEIs to establish and advance sound and transparent quality assurance systems has grown continuously. When the accreditation system was established in

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwee ...

, FIBAA was founded in 1994 and hence became one of the first agencies to be accredited by the German Accreditation Council. Since 2002, it has been entitled to award the Seal of the Accreditation Council for degree programs in Germany. The FIBAA is organized as a non-profit organization and is headquartered in

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inha ...

as well FIBAA is registered in Zurich,

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

The FIBAA Foundation Council is the leading board of the foundation. It defines and represents the common interests of the founders and decides on the economic and strategic baselines of FIBAA's work. The FIBAA Foundation Council assures that FIBAA's mission is well established in society and its institutions and promotes FIBAA's overall values of transparency, quality and internationality in the field of higher education.

International activities

FIBAA is recognised as a quality assurance agency in: *Germany – Accreditation by the German Accreditation Counci

*Switzerland – Recognition by the Federal Department of Economics Affairs FDE

*Netherlands – Recognition by the Nederlands Vlaamse Accreditatie Organisatie (NVAO

*Kazakhstan - Recognition by the Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhsta

*Austria– Recognition by the Federal Ministry for Science and Researc

Europe-wide – Full membership in European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA

Europe-wide-Listed in the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR

History

Even before the Bologna Declaration announced by the European ministers responsible for higher education in 1999 and the resulting introduction of today's quality assurance systems, it became necessary to develop a suitable form of quality testing due to the confusing range of MBA programs that had developed in

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and

. Hence, the leading organisations of Swiss, Austrian and German industry established the Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA) in autumn 1994 as an international non-profit foundation. Right from day one, the intention was to develop a strict assessment guide for quality assurance in the field of management training. Since its founding, FIBAA has established itself as a quality assurance agency which assesses degree programs, HEIs and their quality management. It examines and promotes German and foreign state and state-recognised private HEIs and

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Accreditation objectives

The accreditation of degree programs is an internationally established quality assurance process in the higher education sector. It serves to maintain fundamental

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in terms of the content and structural design of educational offerings, to secure the comparability of various study offerings at national and international level, and to facilitate the international recognition of academic achievements and degrees. FIBAA's work is shaped by an intensive quality process in close cooperation with the HEIs, whose goals are, on the one hand, to improve their quality and, on the other, to provide a successful, accreditation, certification or evaluation process. FIBAA considers itself a non-profit quality assurance agency committed to the following goals: * Securing and improving quality in the higher education sector, * Contributing to the transparency of studies offered for the employment market, for students, companies, and for the HEIs themselves, * Collaborating in the elaboration of principles for the quality process in the national and international education sector, * Taking into consideration European and international concepts and guidelines in the field of quality assurance in the higher education sector, and * Applying transparent combinations of information, quality standards and procedural principles.

Accredited institutions

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European School of Management and Technology The European School of Management and Technology, also known as ESMT Berlin, is a private non-profit business school based in Berlin, Germany. The business school was founded in 2002 by 25 global companies and institutions including McKinsey & Co ...

RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

* University of Bayreuth * Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin *

Berlin Institute of Technology The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It wa ...

FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management The FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management is Germany's largest private university. The business school is privately run, works in close co-operation with other universities, and is state recognized. With more than 42 ...

University of Marburg The Philipps University of Marburg (german: Philipps-Universität Marburg) was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Protestant university in the wor ...

* University of Düsseldorf * MCI Management Center Innsbruck * Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences * Berlin School of Economics and Law * Beirut Arab University * Wisconsin International University in Ukraine * KAZGUU University * International university of Applied Sciences- Bad Honnef * German Jordan University - Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Graduate School of Business * Hochschule Anhalt - Bernburg Campus * Munich Business School

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