FIBAA
the FIBAA (F oundation for I nternational B usiness A dministration A ccreditation) is one of the six accreditation agencies, which carries the technical-contentwise investigation out of courses of studies with the conclusions Bachelor/Bakkalaureus and masters/Magister in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on behalf the accreditation advice.
It is a trinational donation with donation seat in Zurich and the head office in Bonn. It has its chief work field in the investigation of economiceconomics oriented courses of studies. It is recognized of the German accreditation advice as of the Netherlands accreditation advice.
After own stating is: “the FIBAA is an international, forwardseverything in Europe active quality and accreditation agency, which support universities with the advancement of their Bachelor, master and PhD courses of studies. She does this by an intensive quality process together with the university, whose goals are on the one hand the quality improvement and on the other hand the accreditation of the course of studies. This quality processcontain consultation to the quality management, investigation of the course of studies concerning contents and structure as well as with fulfilment of the conditions the award of the FIBAA Qualitätssiegels. “
procedure and quality standard
- fundamental consist a consultant team of at least four persons, of it two from the range of the science (university and professional school), onefrom the professional experience (enterprise representative (in) and a student.
- Of the study offerers statements expected to the conceptional bases and goals of the course of studies, for positioning in science and practice, to the training body, to program contents and their switching, to the student development process from the permission to the Examinierung, to thatResources and to the management.
- Task of the investigation is the representation and evaluation of a study program as complete work. View of single criteria serves to found the evaluation and provide the quality profile. Collecting procedures for several study programs („bundled accreditation “) become increasingly usual. They must at least in Germanyprescribed accreditation of the individual course of studies to the full extent with ensure.
- FIBAA compiles a course of studies profile in the accreditation procedure by the regulation of development stages of the quality elements. The profile puts the evaluations on on minimum standard of the Akkreditierngsrat, which form the lower reference framework, during simultaneous above the base line to a clear document of identificationthe strengthening and weakness profile lead. Informative for studying above all transparency is by description of profile, which is reached with the FIBAA appraisal procedure.
- Altogether the evaluation spectrum contains approximately 100 quality criteria, from which the profile of the study offer forms.
international network
the anchorage of the FIBAAin international networks (z. B.ENQA, ECA, EQUAL) leads to a better comparability of the German-language university landscape with the international.
Economiceconomics oriented courses of studies and their organizer as well as students, enterprises and the associated accreditation sector receive supranational transparency. So also the permanent advancement is thatQuality standards and the procedure in international perspective ensures.
At present approximately 300 study offers by the FIBAA (conditions are: April 2006) in Germany, Austria, which accredits Switzerland and the Netherlands.
