The Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA) is recognised accreditation body in all

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(Germany-Switzerland-Austria), FIBAA was founded in 2002 to accredit schools of

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. Since the launch of the European

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, along with the transition to bachelor's and master's programs and the growing independence available to

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institutions (HEIs) in designing their degree programs, the call for the HEIs to establish and advance sound and transparent quality assurance systems has grown continuously. When the accreditation system was established in

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, FIBAA was founded in 1994 and hence became one of the first agencies to be accredited by the German Accreditation Council. Since 2002, it has been entitled to award the Seal of the Accreditation Council for degree programs in Germany. The FIBAA is organized as a non-profit organization and is headquartered in

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as well FIBAA is registered in

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The FIBAA Foundation Council is the leading board of the foundation. It defines and represents the common interests of the founders and decides on the economic and strategic baselines of FIBAA's work. The FIBAA Foundation Council assures that FIBAA's mission is well established in society and its institutions and promotes FIBAA's overall values of transparency, quality and internationality in the field of higher education.

International activities

FIBAA is recognised as a quality assurance agency in: *Germany – Accreditation by the German Accreditation Counci

*Switzerland – Recognition by the Federal Department of Economics Affairs FDE

*Netherlands – Recognition by the Nederlands Vlaamse Accreditatie Organisatie (NVAO

*Kazakhstan - Recognition by the Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhsta

*Austria– Recognition by the Federal Ministry for Science and Researc

Europe-wide – Full membership in European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA

Europe-wide-Listed in the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR

History

Even before the Bologna Declaration announced by the European ministers responsible for higher education in 1999 and the resulting introduction of today's quality assurance systems, it became necessary to develop a suitable form of quality testing due to the confusing range of

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programs that had developed in

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and

. Hence, the leading organisations of Swiss, Austrian and German industry established the Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA) in autumn 1994 as an international non-profit foundation. Right from day one, the intention was to develop a strict assessment guide for quality assurance in the field of management training. Since its founding, FIBAA has established itself as a quality assurance agency which assesses degree programs, HEIs and their quality management. It examines and promotes German and foreign state and state-recognised private HEIs and

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Accreditation objectives

The accreditation of degree programs is an internationally established quality assurance process in the higher education sector. It serves to maintain fundamental

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in terms of the content and structural design of educational offerings, to secure the comparability of various study offerings at national and international level, and to facilitate the international recognition of academic achievements and degrees. FIBAA's work is shaped by an intensive quality process in close cooperation with the HEIs, whose goals are, on the one hand, to improve their quality and, on the other, to provide a successful, accreditation, certification or evaluation process. FIBAA considers itself a non-profit quality assurance agency committed to the following goals: * Securing and improving quality in the higher education sector, * Contributing to the transparency of studies offered for the employment market, for students, companies, and for the HEIs themselves, * Collaborating in the elaboration of principles for the quality process in the national and international education sector, * Taking into consideration European and international concepts and guidelines in the field of quality assurance in the higher education sector, and * Applying transparent combinations of information, quality standards and procedural principles.

Accredited institutions

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Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin; also known as Berlin Institute of Technology and Technical University of Berlin, although officially the name should not be translated) is a public university, public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was the first ...

* Berlin School of Economics and Law *

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* FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management * Munich Business School *

RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University (), in German ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen'', is a German public research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With more than 47,000 students enrolled in 144 study prog ...

Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin (SHB) (or Steinbeis University) is a private, state-approved university in Germany, well-known for its focus on applied research and industry-oriented education. It is primarily known for its cooperative education prog ...

Stuttgart Technology University of Applied Sciences The Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart - University of Applied Sciences (, HFT Stuttgart) is one of ten institutes for higher education in Stuttgart. It was founded in 1832 as a school for construction craftsmen (Winterschule für Bauhandwerker) a ...

University of Bayreuth The University of Bayreuth (German: Universität Bayreuth) is a public research university located in Bayreuth, Germany. It is one of the youngest German universities. It is broadly organized into seven undergraduate and graduate faculties, with ...

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University of Marburg The Philipps University of Marburg () is a public research university located in Marburg, Germany. It was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Prote ...

Wisconsin International University in Ukraine Wisconsin International University (USA) in Ukraine (WIUU) is a liberal arts institute located in the center of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The WIUU was established in 1997 as a private Higher Education Institution (HEI) ''Ukrainian-American Li ...

WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management is a private German business school with campuses in Vallendar and Düsseldorf, Germany. As of September 2024, there are 2,007 students (including doctoral students) at WHU, about 251 employees and 5 ...

Wittenborg University Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences (abbreviated as ''WUAS''; ) is a Dutch government accredited private Vocational University established 1987 in the centre of the Netherlands, offering bachelor's and master's degrees - vocational educatio ...

of Applied Sciences

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