Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, has gained the prestigious AACSB accreditation, considered among the world’s leading accreditations for Business Schools.Founded in 1916, AACSB is the longest-serving global accrediting body for business schools and is the world’s largest business education alliance, connecting educators, learners, and business.
In addition to AACSB, Great Lakes, Chennai, already has AMBA (UK), NBA and SAQS accreditations. With this milestone, Great Lakes joins a select group of 10top b-schools in India to have ‘Double Crown’ ofglobal accreditations.
Commenting of receiving the accreditation, Prof. Suresh Ramanathan, Dean, Great Lakes Institute of Management, said “The AACSB accreditation is a recognition of the high standards that we have set over the years in delivering rigorous, innovative and industry relevant content in the classroom and preparing world-class future ready business talent."
Mr. Mohan Lakhamraju, Chairman, Great Lakes, while congratulating and thanking all stakeholders said “The AACSB accreditation is a further testament to our commitment of offering global quality education in India. It is the result of continuous efforts of our fantastic team as well as constant support from our industry partners, students and alumni.”
Prof. Vishwanathan Iyer, Director of Accreditations at Great Lakes said that “the rigorous AACSB accreditation process and inputs from Deans around the world that are part of the peer-assessment will further help us in following global best practices.”