Sonoma State University's School of Business and Economics has earned an initial accreditation in business from AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
The University joins an elite group that makes up less than 10 percent of the world's business schools that have achieved business and/or accounting accreditation from AACSB.
"We now have been recognized for the quality of what the faculty, staff and students in the Department of Business Administration accomplish every day of the week," says James Robertson, Dean of the School.
"We have risen to a new plateau of continuous improvement and higher quality. A special thanks to all who labored so long and to the Administration for their support, our advisory boards for their input into our strategic planning and the donors who recently contributed a $5 million endowment for the School."
AACSB is the longest serving and largest global accrediting body for business schools that offer undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in business and accounting and is considered the highest achievement in business school accreditation.
"It takes a great deal of commitment and determination to earn AACSB accreditation," said Jerry Trapnell, executive vice president and chief accreditation officer of AACSB International. "Schools must meet rigorous standards of excellence, as well as make a commitment to ongoing improvement that ensures that they will deliver a high quality education to students."
As required by AACSB standards, all accredited schools must gothrough a peer review every five years in order to maintain their accreditation.
For further information, contact James Robertson, Dean of the School of Business and Economics, (707) 664-2220.
