Accreditation

Association of Collegiate Business Schools and programs - ACBSP

ACBSP is the leading specialized accreditation association for business education supporting, celebrating, and rewarding teaching excellence. The association embraces the virtues of teaching excellence and emphasizes to students that it is essential to learn how to learn. ACBSP acknowledges the importance of scholarly research and inquiry and believes that such activities facilitate improved teaching. Institutions are strongly encouraged to pursue a reasonable mutually beneficial balance between teaching and research. And further, ACBSP encourages faculty involvement within the contemporary business world to enhance the quality of classroom instruction and to contribute to student learning.

PSG Institute of Management is the first B-school in India to be granted candidacy for accreditation on 26th June, 2009. Accreditation committee has nominated Mr. Bijoy K .Sahoo. Ph.D, Dean, School of Business, North Carolina Central University, as the mentor for PSG IM. The Preliminary visit from the Executive Director of ACBSP, Mr. Douglas Viehland along with the mentor had taken place on 24th August, 2009. The accreditation team has accepted the preliminary questionnaire and updation on the questionnaire are in progress. The proposal to ACBSP is to be sent on September, 2010. The final accreditation is expected on November, 2010.

ACBSP Steering Committee
1. Dr. R . Nandagopal
2. Mr. P. Varadharajan
3. Dr. R. Swamynathan
4. Mr. Ajith Sankar R. N
5. Mr. M. Sathish
6. Mr. Anand Subramanian
7. Dr. N. Ramkumar