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FIBAA accredits TAG-College?s MBA program
Dr. Hashem: ?A quality academic accomplishment achieved within a short period to be added to the record of the Arab educational institutions.?
AMMAN --- November 15th, 2009 - The MBA program at Talal Abu-Ghazaleh College of Business/German Jordanian University (TAG-College) has recently received accreditation by the Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA). The accreditation procedure has verified and confirmed that the program has all the quality elements required by a Master program, including those specified in the European MBA Guidelines.
The MBA program at TAG-College has achieved this prestigious accreditation notwithstanding being one of the most recently introduced programs in the Arab region. The program was unconditionally accredited for 5 years; which is the highest rank of initial accreditation that is only granted to programs which fully satisfy all requirements and quality standards.
TAG-College?s MBA program was accredited by FIBAA in the Arab world despite of its young age. The first batch of graduates from the program was during summer 2009.
Commenting on the accreditation, Prof. Dr. Saleh Hashem, Secretary General of the Arab Universities Union said that this accreditation is a quality academic accomplishment achieved within a short period. He confirmed that it will be added to the record of the Arab educational institutions.
?We congratulate TAG-College on this great achievement, and we are proud to see an Arab academic program that has been fully developed and implemented by an Arab academic institution capable, within a record time period, of competing with equivalent programs in Europe and the world. We hope to see more similar achievements from our academic institutions in the Arab world,? Dr. Hashem added.
FIBAA is a an International Accreditation Agency mainly active in Europe. In Germany, FIBAA has been entitled to bestow the seal of the German Accreditation Council for academic programs in the fields of economic studies, management, law and social sciences. 60% of all study programs in business administration and economics are accredited by FIBAA. In Switzerland, FIBAA has been acknowledged as a quality assessment agency by the Federal Department of Economic Affairs (FDEA). In the Netherlands, FIBAA has been acknowledged as a quality assessment agency by the Netherlands-Vlaamse Accreditatie Organisatie (NVAO). Furthermore, FIBAA quality seal is offered to programs conducted in the USA, Northern and Eastern Europe, Africa, China and India among others.
FIBAA has been awarded "full membership" in the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE). Furthermore, it enjoys full membership at the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) and is included in the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR), which list quality assurance agencies that operate in Europe and have proven their credibility and reliability.
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Talal Abu-Ghazaleh College of Business/ German Jordanian University (TAG-College) represents a unique partnership between the private sector (Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization) and the public sector (the German Jordanian University ?GJU?). GJU was established by the Government of Jordan in 2005 and later invited Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization to set up a school of business as one of the faculties of the University. An agreement was signed in February 2006 and classes started in the fall of 2006. All MBA program offered by TAG-College were accredited, including Marketing, Accounting, Management, Banking and Finance, Quality Management, Human Resources Management.