Updated on: Monday, October 03, 2011
Globsyn Business School, with an AICTE approved fully residential campus in the outskirts of Kolkata and a city campus in the electronic complex in Sector V, Salt Lake announced its membership to AACSB-the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Globsyn Business School is the only second B-school in West Bengal after IIMC to become a member of AACSB and the sixth business school in the entire eastern region to be accepted as a member.
AACSB International is a membership association of educational institutions, businesses, not-for-profit and government organisations devoted to the advancement of higher education in business administration and management. Membership does not imply accreditation.
Established in 1916, AACSB International provides its members with a variety of products and services to assist them with the continuous improvement of their business programs and schools. AACSB International members are located in more than 70 countries around the world. Members range from educational institutions offering business programmes to corporate, non-profit, and public sector organizations that desire to connect with and/or support business education worldwide. Today, there are nearly 1,200 members around the globe.
Bikram Dasgupta, chairman and CEO, Globsyn Group, said “Being accepted as a member B-School by AACSB is an important step in our endeavor to leverage best-in-class resources offered by premier global bodies to develop GBS as a global class business school. The membership opens up the opportunity for our faculty and academicians to participate in their conferences, seminars, symposiums; share their papers and gives them a platform to connect with the world’s leading educators and thinkers.”