The Business Graduates Association employs a flexible educational membership model that clearly displays a business school’s status and achievements. The level of a business school’s achievement communicates transparency, and is at the forefront of our vision in promoting business schools who undertake quality assurance processes such as our continuous improvement, validation, and accreditation options.
View and compare the differences between the three tier membership levels available to business schools
Programme Consultancy Review
Mentorship from world-leading experts *additional fees apply for membership
Discounted rates on award-winning events all around the world
Facilitated networking
Free access to exclusive regional Capacity Building Workshops
Read and feature in Business Impact magazine
Business school listing on BGA’s School Search
Marketing and PR support
Business school development webinars
Student membership
Graduate membership
BGA Charter quality assurance review (validation)
International quality assurance recognition
Continous Impact Model for continuous improvement
Peer-review school consultation
BGA Gold Accreditation and certificate of accreditation and impact report
Business schools that register as educational members of BGA automatically become bronze members.
In order to achieve bronze membership, business schools must subscribe and commit to BGA’s Charter Principles, which are built around integrity, social responsibility, economic impact, and continuous improvement.
Educational membership is focused on giving business schools continuous improvement tools that will aid them in meeting the Charter. These comprise consultancy and development, networking, and access to proprietary research. Educational membership is the required stepping stone to achieve validation or accreditation.
Business schools can achieve silver status BGA membership upon completion of the validation process.
Validation is a concentrated quality assurance that assesses a business school’s ability to meet the principles in BGA’s Charter. This ensures that the business school can clearly demonstrate that it meets the demands of the economy.
Silver status allows business schools to transfer free student and graduate membership to up to two years of their graduated alumni.
Gold status is awarded to business schools that achieve full accreditation with BGA and can demonstrate that they have positive impact on student development.
The rigorous, yet highly rewarding, accreditation process requires business schools to meet a series of key principles, which demonstrate the business school’s level of quality, and involves assessment visits that thoroughly audit the business school and its programmes.
Gold status allows a business school to transfer free student and graduate membership for up to five years of their graduated alumni.
For questions about becoming a member, please contact:
