EFMD Awards EPAS Accreditation to Seven New Programmes

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM--(Marketwired - June 18, 2015) -

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We are happy to announce that the EPAS Accreditation Board has recently awarded the EPAS quality label to seven new programmes from six new Institutions: Berlin School of Economics and Law, Department of Business and Economics, Germany; Professional School of Business and Technology, University of Applied Sciences Kempten, Germany; Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; Graduate School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University, Russia; Glasgow School for Business and Society, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK; Coventry Business School, Coventry University, UK.

Please read here what the Schools said about the achievements.

EPAS was launched in 2005 and in 10 years has had a considerable impact on the quality of business schools programmes all over the world. As of June 2015, 94 accredited programmes from 69 institutions across 31 countries that have been awarded EPAS accreditation. We are happy to welcome a new country - Israel - to the pool of EPAS accredited institutions.

Further eight programmes from six institutions have been successfully reaccredited.

Prof. David Asch, Associate Director, Quality Services & EPAS Director, commented: "I would like to warmly congratulate all the Institutions that have successfully gone through the EPAS accreditation and reaccreditation processes. Their achievement illustrates these Institutions' commitment to the continuous improvement of the quality of their programmes. The highly demanding EPAS standards ensure that accredited programmes are designed and delivered so that they are both academically rigorous and have practical relevance for students in today's global environment."

For more information on EPAS visit www.efmd.org/epas

About EFMD

EFMD is a leading international network of business schools and companies (840 members/83 countries) at the forefront or raising the standards of management education and development globally. More information about EFMD is available via efmd.org, the EFMD blog, @EFMDnews on Twitter and EFMD on LinkedIn.

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