Eligibility

ELIGIBILITY PROCEDURES FOR AACSB INTERNATIONAL ACCREDITATION

Characteristics of institutions that offer business degree programs bear on the quality of those programs and on the educational value created for their students. Certain organizational characteristics determine institutional eligibility for accreditation. An institution must demonstrate these characteristics before it enters the initial accreditation review process and to maintain its accredited status.

E:  The institution or the business programs of the institution must establish expectations for ethical behavior by administrators, faculty, and students.

INTERPRETATION:  AACSB believes that ethical behavior is paramount to the delivery of quality business education.  Schools are encouraged to develop “codes of conduct” to indicate the importance of proper behavior for administrators, faculty, and students in their professional and personal actions.  Schools also may foster ethical behavior through procedures such as disciplinary systems to manage inappropriate behavior and through honor codes.

This criterion relates to the general procedures of a school.  In no instance will AACSB become involved in the adjudication or review of individual cases of alleged misconduct, whether by administrators, faculty, staff, students, or the school.