IACBE Accreditation

Public Disclosure of Student Achievement

Accreditation is a quality assurance process in which an institution, college or school of higher education voluntarily undergoes an independent appraisal of its educational activities.

The College of Business at Husson University has received specialized accreditation for its business program(s) through the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE) located at 11960 Quivira Road in Overland Park, Kansas, USA. For a list of accredited programs please view our IACBE member status page.  

IACBE is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and accredits business programs world-wide.

The IACBE's approach to accreditation is based on a W. Edwards Deming-Michael Porter framework for quality assurance. In this approach, the IACBE's definition of academic quality focuses on the "outputs" of the educational process instead of the "inputs" into the process, i.e., on the overall level of performance of the academic business unit in the context of its mission over the entire range of its activities and operations. Therefore, the IACBE evaluates academic quality in terms of educational outcomes instead of prescriptive standards relating to resources.

The IACBE's accreditation process examines whether students learned what they were supposed to have learned, whether the academic business unit is functioning effectively, and whether the academic business unit is accomplishing its mission and goals. IACBE is a developmental accreditation process that emphasizes efforts to improve the overall effectiveness of the academic business unit based on the Deming cycle of continuous quality improvement (CQI). The IACBE and its members function in a collaborative and cooperative manner to advance academic quality in business and management education. It enables and encourages academic business units to be innovative and diverse in determining how best to structure their programs, operations, and organizational frameworks (IACBE, 2013).

For more information on the International Accreditation Council for Business Education and Husson University, visit our Accreditations page.