What is the EQUIS MBA?
EQUIS is a quality assurance scheme which is run as a service to worldwide management education by EFMD – which is the European Foundation for Management Development. EQUIS aims to be the leading international system of accreditation, quality assessment and improvement for higher education institutions that specialize in business and management administration. The fundamental objective of EQUIS is linked to EMFD’s mission, which is to raise management education standards worldwide. This means that standard setting, mutual learning, benchmarking and good practice dissemination is facilitated by EQUIS across all borders. Whilst being global in its scope, EQUIS is European in its inspiration. It was designed by Europeans and managed by Europeans. European values and practices underpin EQUIS. But the framework that is used for assessing quality in the highly diverse cultural and institutional contexts is a global one. EQUIS counts diversity as a value to live by. They also feel that there
