St. Joseph, Mo. —The Steven L. Craig School of Business (CSB) at Missouri Western State University has maintained its business accreditation by AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Founded in 1916, AACSB International is the longest serving global accrediting body for business schools that offer undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral degrees in business and accounting.
AACSB Accreditation is the hallmark of excellence in business education, and has been earned by fewer than five percent of the world’s business programs. Today, there are 746 business schools in 51countries and territories that maintain AACSB Accreditation.
“It takes a great deal of commitment and determination to earn and maintain AACSB Accreditation,” said Robert D. Reid, executive vice president and chief accreditation officer of AACSB International. “Business schools must not only meet specific standards of excellence, but their deans, faculty, and professional staff must make a commitment to ongoing continuous improvement to ensure that the institution will continue to deliver the highest quality of education to students.”
AACSB Accreditation covers all programs offered by the CSB, including the new and innovative Masters of Information Management now in its second year of operation.
“Maintenance of our AACSB Accreditation is indicative of the high quality of our business programs at Missouri Western,” said Dr. Mike Lane, Dean of the Craig School of Business. “Our faculty work hard to ensure that our students receive the highest quality education possible. This includes the applied learning aspect of our curriculum which is a requirement for all CSB graduates and differentiates us from many other institutions. The AACSB Accreditation process assesses the quality of the curriculum, the quality of the faculty, and the quality of the students. In addition, the new standards require us to address issues of innovations, engagement with the business community, and impact across all aspects of our program. I am very proud of the work our faculty did in our efforts to prepare for this reaccreditation process.”
Missouri Western was first accredited by AACSB International in 2010. It is one of only 13 schools in Missouri to be accredited. The others accredited include: Drury, Missouri State, Missouri S&T, Rockhurst, St. Louis, Southeast Missouri State, Truman State, Central Missouri, Missouri-Columbia, Missouri-Kansas City, Missouri-St. Louis, and Washington University in St. Louis.