Business schools continue to face tremendous challenges and BGA believes it can play a significant part in helping them to address these challenges by providing both business schools as well as students and graduates high-quality guidance for self-improvement and continuous learning.
BGA rests its expertise and bases its key principles on more than 50 years of experience from AMBA, which accredits the top 2% of MBA programmes in the world, as well drawing on its network of industry professionals who have decades of experience in business and education.
The international business environment is changing at an unprecedented pace, with fresh disruptive innovations and new technologies redefining how people work and communicate. The landscape is becoming ever-more competitive, forcing organisations to compete on a global scale, while attempting to be more socially responsible.
This dynamic backdrop calls for future-proof business talent, leaders and managers who are ready to tackle the needs of the economy today and tomorrow. And this provides a unique opportunity for business schools in terms of creating, nurturing and developing leaders. But, keeping ahead of the curve and pre-empting future demands is no easy task.
Business schools play a vital role in preparing students for future employment; by giving them the technical tools and skills to succeed in their professional lives. And while this is a vital aspect of a business school, BGA believes that schools also need to focus on the personal growth of their students. This includes the cultivation of social skills, ethical behaviour, self-confidence, and humility, all of which form the foundation of socially conscious and responsible leaders.
Recognising the need for innovation in the industry, BGA has launched quality assurance processes, validation and accreditation in supporting business schools to direct their attention to the impact they have on a range of activities that will aid growth and develop students, faculty, programme design, and ultimately, overall value creation.
This trail-blazing network offers business schools the opportunity to profoundly increase their impact on students and the economy, improve their programmes and teaching methods, and play a considerable part in redefining the future of business education.
BGA’s mission is to ensure that business schools innovate and venture beyond conventional means of teaching. The impact and results of that teaching are stressed in our quality assurance process – the Continuous Impact Model (CIM) – structured to ensure business schools are continually seeking to improve and evolve their delivery to meet the latest demands of the economy.
Likewise, we have designed our platform towards students and graduates to support their professional growth, forming a powerful international network in which ‘leaders never stop learning’.
BGA members share a commitment for responsible management practices and lifelong learning, providing positive impact on their students, communities, and the economy as a whole. Business schools that are already members of BGA include:
Business schools that join BGA’s business school membership can make use of a wealth of consultancy-led membership services aimed at supporting programme development, increasing student recruitment numbers and implementing responsible management principles. Their students and alumni will also receive membership access to BGA.
We were originally founded in 1967 as the Business Graduates Association, before rebranding as AMBA – the Association of MBAs, in 1987 – to focus specifically on accrediting the world’s leading MBA and masters in management business school programmes, while also providing membership to AMBA schools’ students and graduates.
Now, in 2019, we are relaunching this powerful heritage brand name, which will stand out in a business education market. Our vision is clear: BGA will champion the crucial importance of lifelong learning, welcoming business schools as members who clearly demonstrate a passion for practical, entrepreneurial business education with a proven commitment to social responsibility and sustainability, across all their programme modules.
BGA will focus on providing educational membership, validation and accreditation across the entire programme portfolios of high-quality business schools. We will also offer free individual BGA membership to the students and alumni of our BGA Schools.
Geographically, we will encourage membership from some of the world’s most sophisticated business schools through to inspirational business schools in some of the world’s poorest countries, who can demonstrate evidence that they are making a real difference to the future of their countries’ economies.
The complexity of today’s environment demands business schools to tackle questions that transcend their traditional profit focus: What are the characteristics of responsible management practices? Which role can business play in solving pressing social issues? How can business contribute to achieving sustainability? How can entrepreneurship foster the development of communities? And how can managers best be enticed to embrace lifelong learning?
‘It is the mission of the Business Graduates Association to encourage business schools and their graduates to go beyond traditional topics and include societal impact metrics in their teaching. I am confident that the BGA can be an important “force for good” and proud and excited about the launch of BGA.
Business schools often have a local, a national and an international role, and a network of international business schools will enable individual schools to tap into a wealth of experience, knowledge, and prospective manpower that will benefit the wider community around them. At the same time business schools can ‘give back’ in a collaborative way that helps their peers.
BGA will offer us a platform that will assist us in continuing our development as a steadily growing international institute, and one that places an important emphasis on social responsibility and responsible management. The services offered to members, notwithstanding the process leading towards a new institutional accreditation, are focused on networking, collaborative sharing of data and ‘best practice’ and it’s great that students and graduates get access to the network, which will promote greater employability, and lifelong learning.’
BGA is different because it will focus on the business school in a balanced way that promotes a sense of ‘belonging’, through the services it offers, not only to deans, and managers, but to faculty, programme developers, marketing and student support staff, and of course students and graduates. The whole institute will benefit.
The UFS Business School is excited to be a BGA member; a great new endeavour. We offer many local scholarship opportunities to support our impact on our community. Aligning with BGA further cements our commitment to positive community impact.
The Business School of Yunnan University of Finance and Economics has achieved accreditation from the Business Graduates Association demonstrating its positive impact on students and
Newton University demonstrates commitment to excellent and sustainability with membership of prestigious Business Graduates Association Newton University is pleased to announce its membership of the
UCU Business School, Universidad Católica del Uruguay has officially received joint accreditation from AMBA & BGA UCU Business School, Universidad Católica del Uruguay has officially
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