What are the criteria for choosing a business school?

You want to join a business school next year. You have already met some schools but you find it difficult to assess their real quality and to identify the elements that distinguish them from one another.

You have appreciated the welcome you received during the Open Days and the atmosphere you felt when visiting the campuses, but you would like to have tangible elements to guide your choice. We suggest that together we analyse various indicators that could help you find your future Business School.

UK recognition

CMI

EM Normandie Oxford campus is an approved study centre of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), a prestigious UK organisation which was established in 1947 as the British Institute of Management. 

CABS

EM Normandie UK joins the elite of UK-based business schools as a full member of the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS), a prestigious UK-based membership body that exclusively admit top business schools as their members.

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International accreditations

These prestigious labels guarantee the quality of Business Schools with regard to international standards. There are four of them: 

• EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System). This European label awarded by the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) distinguishes schools for their teaching methods, the quality of their teaching, their capacity for innovation, their research, their links with the world of work and their international dimension. Less than 200 universities and business schools in the world hold EQUIS. 
• AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business). This American label awarded to Grandes Écoles guarantees the quality of teaching, a high level of supervision for students and a highly qualified teaching staff. 
• AMBA (Association of MBAs). A British label, a guarantee of quality for the best MBAs (Masters of Business Administration). It can also be used for MBMs (Masters in Business and Management) and DBAs (Doctorate of Business Administration). 
• EFMD Accredited. A new label from the EFMD (EFMD Programme Accreditation System) launched in August 2019, it allows an EQUIS-accredited institution to focus on one of its programmes that it considers particularly strategic. 

EM Normandie is triple accredited with EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA. Less than 1% of the world's business schools hold this triple crown.