An MBA can boost your career and professional networks. It gives you the management toolkit and confidence to climb the ladder to leadership in your own profession, switch careers, or be entrepreneurial and start up a new business. To make a success of this professional, financial and personal investment, you need to be sure you are enrolling in a quality MBA.

The Association of MBAs Student of the Year sums up what impact the degree had him. “The MBA has equipped me with comprehensive knowledge, tools, experiences, networks and lifelong friendships,” says Husameldin Elnasri from Lancaster University Management School.

“Today’s MBA programmes are helping students understand and appreciate diversity, exchange cultures and to rediscover their leadership potential,” saya Elnasri. “With organisations becoming increasingly global and diverse, the latter set of skills is particularly important for the managers of tomorrow.”

Elnasri chose to study for a full-time MBA to further his management career having moved from the not-for-profit sector to the corporate sector in his homeland of Sudan. His plans are to return home and set up a business or social enterprise. Elnasri left his family back home while he studied for his MBA full-time at Lancaster University Management School. He says accreditation was an important factor in choosing where he studied for his MBA.

“Studying for an MBA involves a lot of commitment both financially and personally and so I wanted to choose a business school that I could trust and who offered a programme that was of recognised high quality.”

Association of MBAs accreditation ensures that an MBA programme is of the highest quality and relevant to the changing world of business. The criteria for accreditation ensure the MBA programme meets rigorous standards of management training and that the faculty, students and curriculum are of the highest quality. The Association of MBAs detailed assessment process is conducted by an independent panel of senior business school academics who focus purely on the business school’s MBA programme.

The criteria upon which MBA programmes are judged are constantly revised and updated by the Association’s International Accreditation Advisory Board to reflect the changing nature of management and business. The Association’s research and partnerships also help inform its accreditation criteria, which then ensure that accredited schools are including the latest social, environmental and cultural management requirements in their courses.

Today’s MBA programmes are helping students understand and appreciate diversity, exchange cultures and to rediscover their leadership potential LS

Professionals interested in an MBA can choose from the 700 MBA programmes at 199 business schools worldwide that have received accreditation from the Association of MBAs. These business schools offer the highest standards of academic excellence in all their MBA programmes. They also offer flexibility for professionals choosing to study for an MBA with part-time, full-time or modular types of learning and some of them offer international exchange programmes and partnerships.

As an impartial authority on postgraduate business education, the Association of MBAs is committed to the development of the MBA. Its accreditation ensures that an MBA programme is of the highest quality, relevant to the dynamic world of business, and that the programme reflects the latest trends and innovation in management training.

The Association of MBAs offers quality assurance and an exclusive global network throughout the MBA journey by providing students with a list of guaranteed quality MBA programmes, graduates with an assurance that their MBA will retain its value at a time when the market risks saturation, employers with a recognised pool of talented graduates from which to recruit, institutions with a distinct market advantage, international visibility for their programmes and opportunity for external peer review. Created by MBAs for MBAs, it also connects the MBA community through a membership network in more than 110 countries.

Potential MBA students are supported in their search by the Official Guide to Choosing an MBA, the Association’s yearly publication containing information on scholarships and financing your MBA, the application process, what to expect during your degree and what to do after you have graduated. This guide and a list of accredited MBA programmes are available at www.ambaguide.com.

Selecting an MBA programme from the 199 Association of MBAs accredited business schools is a guarantee for both the student and the prospective employer of a top quality MBA from a world-class institution.