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The AACSB
Bridge Program
Post-Doctoral Bridge
to Business Programs


Graduate Testimonials

"I'd like to recognize the AACSB Bridge Program for the role it played in helping me land my first teaching job. The sessions delivered by seasoned professors equipped me with the best practices needed to make an immediate impact in the classroom environment."

— Bridge Program Graduate


"The Post-Doctoral Bridge Program was a great experience for my faculty. They came away from the program energized and full of new ideas regarding their professional future."

— Post-Doctoral Bridge to Business Program Graduate




AACSB offers two unique Bridge Programs to assist both experienced business professionals and non-business doctoral faculty with career transitions into a business school. The AACSB Bridge Program focuses on assisting experienced professionals with a transition to academia as a professionally qualified faculty member. The Post-Doctoral Bridge to Business Program focuses on transitioning faculty members with doctoral qualifications in related, non-business disciplines to appointments in business schools. Both programs aim to assist schools with management education faculty shortages. Graduates of both programs are endorsed by AACSB International as qualified to teach as either professionally or academically qualified faculty.

The AACSB Bridge Program


Post-Doctoral
Bridge to Business Programs

The AACSB Bridge Program helps professionals from the corporate world transition to a business school teaching career.

  • Prepares senior-level professionals for business school classroom teaching
  • 304 professionally qualified faculty added to date
  • 57% employed in a business school
  • Offered by AACSB annually at one location


The AACSB-endorsed Post-Doctoral Bridge Program certifies that PhDs from non-business related disciplines are qualified to teach as business school faculty.

  • Qualifies doctoral faculty outside business disciplines as business school faculty for five years
  • 181 faculty to date certified as academically qualified
  • 70% employed in a business school
  • All four programs endorsed and recognized by AACSB International