AMBA, the Association of MBAs from the United Kingdom, provides a network for MBAs, business schools, and employers and offers an important forum for the exchange of knowledge, ideas, and best practices.
AAPBS, the Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools, provides leadership and representation to advance the quality of business and management education in the Asia-Pacific region. It does so by collaborating in research and teaching and working in partnership to improve business school standards and quality.
Comprised of educational institutions, corporations, and other organizations, the AACSB International formed in 1916 to promote the improvement of higher education in business administration and management. The AACSB fills an important role as an accrediting agency for bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degree programs in business administration and accounting.
As an international management development association that formed in 1993, CEEMAN focuses on accelerating and improving management development in Central and Eastern Europe.
Based in Brussels, the efmd serves as Europe’s forum for information, research, networking, and discussion on innovation and best practices in management development. It also serves as an accrediting body for the EQUIS accreditation.
Then more than 1,200 students in five countries took the exam. Throughout the years, those numbers have grown exponentially to an average of 250,000 GMAT exams each year to nearly 200,000 test takers, according to the GMAC 2013-2014 Report to Schools. Three-year average data includes the following statistics:
• 212 member schools
• 6,100 programs
• 113 countries
• 771,000 score reports
• 600 test centers Read more...
“GMAC has grown beyond being a provider of the GMAT alone to a global organization that provides insights, research, and professional development to the graduate management industry,” says Sangeet Chowfla, GMAC president and CEO in the report.
“We value our partnership with GMAC,” says Michael Desiderio, EMBAC executive director. “GMAC co-sponsors our popular Marketing and Admissions Program, which has continued to attract record numbers of participants, and supports our annual conference. GMAC helps our schools identify quality candidates and our members bolster their professional development.”
GMAC’s mission focuses on helping schools discover, assess, recruit, and admit talent from throughout the world. Its members come from schools that offer a master’s program in business administration, management subjects, or the equivalent, and that use the GMAT exam. It continues to move forward with its mission with efforts in four key areas:
To those ends, GMAC conducts a variety of outreach activities and uses diverse communication tools, including blogs, electronic newsletters, social media, and media relations. A redesign of the mba.com web site continues to attract more than one million unique visitors, generating more than 6.4 million page views. GMAC also sponsors professional development opportunities and spearheads numerous research projects, including eight core survey research studies. It sponsors grants to support innovation in graduate management education, as well as donating to charities and community causes.
“GMAC is a truly remarkable asset to management education and to each of our schools,” says Dina Dommett, executive director, Leadership Programs, London Business School, and 2013-2014 GMAC chair. “From the GMAT exam to gmac.com and mba.com, from research to promotion, from helping us navigate our changing marketplace to helping us lead that change, GMAC makes a difference.” Less...
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