The UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) has received another international MBA accreditation, taking the school one step closer to being triple-crowned. The accreditation confirms again that the best value-for-money MBA in the world, recognised as such by this year’s Financial Times (FT) Rankings, is also one of the best MBAs internationally.

The latest accreditation has been granted by the Association of MBA’s, the international impartial authority on postgraduate MBA education. The AMBA accreditation is considered the global benchmark for MBA, DBA and MBM programmes, and represents the highest standard of achievement. It is earned only by the best programmes.

“We welcome this accreditation and are proud of it because it confirms the value of our MBA offering at the school, building our reputation as a globally competitive institution, and it brings us closer to becoming a triple-crowned business school,” said director of the GSB, Professor Walter Baets.

“Not only is our MBA lauded, but our EMBA is also held in high regard,” he said.

The full-time MBA programme at the GSB moved up six places to be ranked 54^th in the latest FT of London’s Global MBA Top 100, released earlier this year. The school remains the only business school in Africa ranked in the FT MBA Top 100 for its full-time programme, and this is the eighth consecutive year that it has been listed.

The GSB already has EQUIS accreditation and now the AMBA. In order for it to become a triple-crowned business school it needs an accreditation from The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Out of 13 670 schools offering business degree programmes worldwide, only 57 are triple-crown accredited.

“It is our goal to be triple crowned. And there is a good chance that we will be if the feedback we received from AMBA is anything to go by,” said Baets.

He said that special recognition was given by AMBA to not only the GSB’s fulltime MBA but also to its Executive MBA programme (EMBA).