About ACCBE

  • Why was the "Accreditation of Chinese Collegiate School of Business (ACCSB)" renamed to the Accreditation Council for Chinese Business Education (ACCBE)?

    Since 2012, the Chinese Management Association (CMA) has been officially recognized by the Ministry of Education as a qualified "domestic professional evaluation institution." The "Accreditation of Chinese Collegiate School of Business (ACCSB)" launched by CMA was the first professional accreditation for Chinese higher business and management education. Starting in 2018, in response to changes in the Ministry of Education's evaluation policies, the work of recognizing departmental quality assurance systems was launched. Therefore, since August 1, 2020, it has been renamed as the "Accreditation Council for Chinese Business Education (ACCBE)" under the CMA.

  • What are the differences between ACCSB and other international accreditations (e.g., AACSB and EQUIS)?

    1. Compared to the AACSB and the EFMD's EQUIS accreditation, ACCSB is designed specifically for the characteristics and current status of Taiwan's higher education system to assist accredited units in conducting quality assurance work. In particular, university and graduate education in Taiwan is executed by "departments/institutes," unlike foreign business education which operates at the "college/school" level. Therefore, the ACCSB review committee carefully examines the documents of departments/degree programs and conducts in-depth interviews with the heads of each unit to understand the educational objectives, positioning, requirements for graduates' core competencies, and related formal and informal curriculum of each degree program. Afterward, it proposes specific and feasible improvement suggestions for the difficulties encountered by each unit during organizational and institutional adjustments and execution, and urges each unit to implement them within the accreditation validity period.
    2. ACCSB is particularly concerned about whether the design of formal and informal curriculum is linked to the talent cultivation goals of the college/department/degree program, and whether students' core competencies can be genuinely cultivated according to the original goals before graduation.
    3. ACCSB will invite well-known senior domestic scholars to serve as Mentoring Professors based on the attributes of the accredited schools. During the accreditation application period, Mentoring Professors will provide continuous and close guidance and offer professional and concrete suggestions based on the positioning and conditions of the applicant unit.

  • What are the features of ACCSB accreditation?

    1. Emphasis on continuous refinement and quality improvement.
    ACCSB requires colleges/departments to establish continuous improvement mechanisms, ensuring continuous enhancement of teaching quality through regular reviews of educational outcomes and feedback corrections.
     
    1. Focus on the connection between business education and workplace needs.
    Driven by workplace needs, ACCSB requires that talent cultivation goals, curriculum design, and core competencies clearly correspond to target workplace roles, cultivating students with practical and employability skills.
     
    1. Balancing academic and practical faculty.
    ACCSB values the consistency between teachers' expertise and their teaching content, and encourages introducing a certain proportion of practical teachers with industry experience to bring workplace experience into the classroom.
     
    1. Emphasis on character and business ethics education.
    ACCSB emphasizes that management education should not only cultivate professional skills but also value business ethics and character development, guiding students to establish correct values and social responsibility.
     
    1. Emphasis on logical consistency among indicators.
    ACCSB requires rigorous connections among educational objectives, curriculum planning, learning outcomes, and improvement mechanisms, forming a consistent and verifiable quality assurance system.
     
    1. Ensuring graduates possess core competencies.
    ACCSB values core competency assessment before and after graduation. Through diverse methods such as capstone courses, practical projects, professional certifications, internships, employer feedback, and even student self-assessments, it confirms that students possess the skills required by the workplace.

  • What are the goals of ACCSB accreditation?

    1. To assist business schools in reviewing the educational objectives, development strategies, educational content, operational systems, execution effectiveness, and the operation of quality assurance mechanisms of their affiliated departments and degree programs.
    2. To provide public quality assurance for business education, prompt colleges to build the capacity to continuously improve the professional quality of business education, and establish public trust in professional business education.

  • Who are the target applicants for ACCSB accreditation?

    1. Business schools affiliated with universities (including universities of technology) in Taiwan recognized by the Ministry of Education, and universities outside Taiwan that use Chinese as their primary language of instruction. These must be departments and degree programs approved by the local government to grant official degrees.
    2. Partial departments or degree programs within a business school.

  • What is the procedure for ACCSB accreditation?

    1. Eligibility Review:
    Determines whether the applicant unit is suitable to participate in the accreditation review and defines the scope of accreditation.
     
    1. Accreditation Review:
    Determines whether the applicant unit can obtain accreditation and what the accreditation result will be. The procedure includes:
    A. Mentoring guidance
    B. Document Review
    C. On-site Review
    D. Accreditation Working Committee (AWC) Review
    E. Accreditation Steering Committee (ASC) Review
     
    1. Re-accreditation Review:
    Determines the re-accreditation results for accredited units. The procedure includes:
    A. Document Review
    B. On-site Review
    C. Accreditation Working Committee (AWC) Review
    D. Accreditation Steering Committee (ASC) Review

  • What are the differences between the ACCSB and ACCPB accreditation? And why haven’t we seen any ACCPB accreditations issued so far?

    Since the authority to confer degrees at universities in Taiwan lies with individual departments, the courses and faculty of each department are essentially independent. However, due to varying development timelines among different departments, and the fact that some schools have not established independent business and management colleges, certain business-related departments might be affiliated with other colleges. 

    Therefore, in addition to the existing ACCSB accreditation that targets all units of the college, we have also introduced the ACCPB accreditation. This accreditation exclusively centers on the suitability of the educational goals, development strategies, educational content, operational systems, educational effectiveness, and quality assurance mechanisms of individual departments. 

    However, due to ACCSB accreditation’s longer history and stronger reputation in Taiwan, widely acknowledged by the public, departments/programs tend to give priority to applying for ACCSB accreditation. Even those departments that perform less favorably against accreditation standards make efforts to collaborate and enhance their performance to attain college-wide accreditation. Moreover, for business-related departments not affiliated with a business college, if all departments can meet the conditions required for accreditation, they remain eligible for ACCSB accreditation. Consequently, as of now, no ACCPB accreditations have been granted.