FIBAA Assessment Guide for Programme Accreditation

 

To assist HEIs in accreditation procedures in accordance with the international oriented FIBAA quality requirements, FIBAA has developed an assessment guide for programme accreditation, which contains the FIBAA quality requirements (in total 60) in the form of questions and definitions of the benchmarks. The guide serves as the basis for the generation of the self-documentation by the HEIs. 

The FIBAA assessment guide for accreditation of study programmes in economics, law and social sciences was developed in line with: 

  • the European Standards & Guidelines (ESG), 
  • the European quality frame (EQF) and the Dublin Descriptors (DD) contained therein, 
  • the specialist standard (e.g. EQUAL MBA Guidelines) as well as
  • the basic requirements for introduction of credit systems and modularisation of study programmes. 

Owing to the peculiarities of distance study programmes, FIBAA has developed an additional assessment guide specifically for accreditation of these study programmes. The Distance Study Assessment Guide for Programme Accreditation is a comprehensive assessment guide, supplemented by criteria specific to distance study programmes . Therefore, it is also suitable for programmes that are offered both as on-campus and distance study programmes.

 All FIBAA Assessment Guides for Programme Accreditation can be downloaded here. 

FIBAA Quality Profile

 

Each and every quality criterion in the FIBAA Assessment Guide for Programme Accreditation is reviewed by assessors. The assessment is not only recorded in the assessment report, but also in a quality profile made up of five distinct assessment stages. 

The findings on the specific evaluation criteria are described in the assessment stages, taking the relevant national requirements of each case into account. 

The assessment stages define the extent to which the FIBAA quality requirements are fulfilled: