IIM-A India’s 1st to get Equis

AHMEDABAD: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), announced on Wednesday the acquisition of the prestigious European Quality Improvement System (Equis) accreditation. IIM-A is the first and only B-school in India to obtain the accreditation.

Equis is a leading international system of quality assessment, improvement and accreditation of higher education management and business administration institutions. There are 113 Equis-recognised schools in the world, in 33 countries.

IIM-A has been granted the three-year accreditation with two other B-schools – Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, PR China and Bentley College, US.

Director of quality services, European Foundation for Management Development, Julio Urgel said, “This is a special milestone for Equis with the very first accreditation in India and new schools joining the Equis community from China and the US. We embrace the diversity new schools bring to the network and believe this is what makes Equis the most sophisticated and benchmarking tool for management education.”

The IIM-A campus is celebrating as the accreditation brings global recognition with it. IIM-A director Samir Barua said, “With Equis accreditation, the institute enters a totally different bracket. This should make the institute more attractive for international students for the PGPX course and even help attract international faculty.”

Barua said the Equis process of granting accreditation was extremely rigorous and it was, therefore, a true achievement for IIM-A.