Accreditation

PSG, Who?
A relatively obscure B-school from South India has become the first B-school campus to cross first stage two of the best global accreditation certification processes including the coveted AACSB Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business accreditation process, considered as gold standard in global B-school benchmarking. PSG Institute of Management Coimbatore surpassed the much bigger and more well known B-schools like Indian School of Business (ISB) and ICFAI School of Business (IBS) both based at Hyderabad who are also in the race for AACSB accreditation and got a mentor appointed to oversee the AACSB induction process. "We have also received the mentor appointment for the Association of Collegiate Business Schools ACBSP accreditation", Dr.N.Nandagopal says proudly. Appointment of mentor marked the crossing of the first stage of the rigorous five year accreditation process.

PSG's mentor, Dr. Bijoy Sahoo, assistant vice chancellor of North Carolina Central University, US, is satisfied that PSG has its processed in place. "PSG working can be easily benchmarked with the global standards, except that the school should scale up on the faculty number and quality, infrastructure, new course introduction etc" Bijoy K. Sahoo, the mentor says. "our biggest advantage is the legacy of the school being part of the nearly eight decade old charity PSG which runs a host of higher education institutions including an arts college, engineering college and medical college", explains C.R.Swaminathan, chief executive officer of PSG group. It is a sweet irony that the relatively obscure B-school from south has emerged as the best benchmark for a global business school in India.

• The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business - AACSB (click to view details)
• Association of Collegiate Business Schools and programs - ACBSP (click to view details)