SBS Swiss Business School

SBS Swiss Business School
About the School
Type:	Private
President:	Dr. Craig Shoemaker (Honorary President)
Vice President:	Marijana Karanfiloska
Dean:	Bert Wolfs, Ph.D.
Faculty:	35
Students:	307 [1]
Location:	Zurich, Switzerland
Website:	www.sbs.edu
Accreditation:	ACBSP/IACBE

SBS Swiss Business School is a private business school located in Zurich.^[2]

History

SBS Swiss Business School was founded in 1998.^[3] SBS Swiss Business School was founded as a private^[4] institution dedicated to foster academic excellence and student achievement on the graduate and undergraduate level in business and management. Its mission therefore is to provide students with a strong academic foundation with access to various specialized knowledge bases and prepare them to become competent professionals, and responsible citizens in a global arena. It defines higher education from its beginning as the experience of thinking internationally. To do this it maintains a multi-cultural student body on its home campus along with its international centers.^[5]

Academic Programs

SBS Swiss Business School offers a variety of programs. All academic programs are taught in English. SBS delivers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs such as Bachelor, Master and Doctoral degrees.

Undergraduate and graduate programs are proposed in several disciplines, including Business administration, E-Commerce and Science.

An Executive MBA, an Online MBA and a Doctorate Program in Business Administration are also available.^[6][7][8][9]

Accreditation Status

SBS Swiss Business School programs are accredited by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP)^[10] and the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE),^[11] both US-wide accreditation body recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). SBS Swiss Business School is certified by the Swiss Quality Certificate for Adult Education Institutions (eduQua).^[12]

SBS is not accredited by the Swiss OAQ, indicating it is not recognized as state university in Switzerland.^[13] SBS has the status of H- Institution ohne Hochschulrang in the German Anabin database, indicating it is not accredited as state university in Germany.^[14]

Memberships

SBS Swiss Business School is a member of the Swiss Adult Education Association (SVEB),^[15] the Swiss Federation of Private Schools (VSP),^[16] the Swiss Conference of Higher Education,^[17] the Swiss Private School Register,^[18] and a member of the Central and East European Management Development Association (CEEMAN) but not accredited,^[19] Slovenia.

Rankings

SBS Swiss Business School was awarded as "Most innovative Business School in Switzerland" offering the "Best Remote Learning Programme in Europe by European CEO 2012,^[20] its MBA Program has been ranked 14th in Europe by CEO Magazine 2012 and the Online MBA has been listed in the Financial Times 2009 online MBA list.^[21]

Partner Institutions

SBS Swiss Business School is a partner institutions with the Russian-Armenian State University in Yerevan - Armenia, the Acelin Institute of Business in Adelaide - Australia, the International Business School in Almaty - Kazakhstan, the Ramaiah Institute of Management Studies in Bangalore - India, the BA School of Business and Finance in Riga^[22] - Latvia, the Academy of National Economy in Moscow - Russia and St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa - USA.

References

External links

• Official homepage