The Association of MBAs is the advocate for the MBA and was established in 1967. The Association's accreditation service is internationally recognised as the global standard for all MBA, DBA and MBM programmes. We also offer the only professional membership association for MBA students and graduates.

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The Association of MBAs now accredits MBA programmes at 142 business schools in 67 countries worldwide.

Click on the links below for a list of all accredited:

• MBA programmes
• DBA programmes
• MBM programmes

To access the archives of Business Leadership Review, the forum for leadership and best practice in postgraduate management education, please click here.

Visit the Accreditation homepage for more information about our accreditation service.

For all upcoming business school events please visit the School Forum homepage. Alternatively please click on a link below for information on a specific event:

China Conference for Deans and Directors

Lisbon Deans and Directors Conference

Knowledge Bank
This resource provides details of previous events run by the Association.

Membership benefits

Students and graduates from accredited programmes can join our unique world-wide contact network and take advantage of a full range of benefits and services, as well as gaining access to high profile business and academic speakers at our events.

Regional Events

The Association organises a wide range of events for MBA students and graduates. All our events (unless stated) are open to members and non-members.
Members can attend all events at a discounted rate.

The first of the Association of MBAs' Deans and Directors conferences in 2008 will take place at the Lisbon Marriott Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal, between the 28 and 30 of May 2008.

You can view the poster for this event and download the programme here.

Winner of The Independent MBA Student of the Year Award 2007 Announced
The Association of MBAs awards this prestigious accolade yearly. 2007 marked the 10th anniversary of this competition.

This year's winner is Bart Knols, a representative of the Open University Business School and a highly accomplished biologist, who used his MBA to learn key managing skills necessary in his fight against diseases like malaria.

You can read more about Bart and the other finalist here.

New Members of the International Management Board Announced
The result of the elections for the IMB was announced at our Annual General Meeting, held on 29 November 2007. The two new members of the IMB were named.
They are Steve Hooker and Bryony Moore.

To read their candidate profiles, click here.

Some Changes to Your World Business Subscription
It has been one year since we subscribed all our members to World Business magazine. We hope you have found this subscription to be a valuable benefit.

We are constantly seeking to improve our service to members, so we are currently working with World Business to add some exciting benefits to your membership package. By making these changes, we hope to enhance our provision of MBA knowledge and information for members. According to your response to our 2006 membership survey, this is one of the elements of membership you most value.

Whilst this new package is under development, World Business will not be producing a September issue of the magazine. The next issue of World Business will be sent to you in October.

'PEMM' changes to 'MBM'
We have recently decided to rename our PEMM (Pre-Experience Masters in Business and Management) accreditation service to provide greater clarity. These programmes will now be referred to as MBMs (Masters in Business and Management).

The name change has been made since these programmes are not necessarily ‘pre-experience’. The term Masters in Business and Management (MBM) has been chosen as it reflects the wider subject area of business and management, as well as allowing for a wider scope in terms of the aims and pedagogy of the particular programmes.

However, all programmes that achieved our PEMM accreditation continute to be accredited by us as MBM programmes. For more information about our MBM accreditation, or the programmes that we accredit as MBMs, please click here.