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��ɫ�� has maintained its accounting accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International). Founded in 1916, AACSB International is the longest serving global accrediting body for business schools that offer undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees in business and accounting.

AACSB accreditation is the hallmark of excellence in business and accounting education and has been earned by less than 5 percent of the world’s business programs. Today, there are 672 business schools in 44 countries and territories that maintain AACSB accreditation. Of these, 178 institutions maintain an additional specialized AACSB accreditation for their accounting programs.

“AACSB congratulates Dean Deborah Spake, of the College of Business Administration, along with Associate Professor and Accounting Chair Linda Zucca for maintaining AACSB accreditation for the school’s accounting program,” says Robert D. Reid, executive vice president and chief accreditation officer of AACSB International. “Dean Spake and the accounting faculty and staff at ��ɫ�� are to be commended for their exemplary work in maintaining the highest honor in business school accounting accreditation.”

To realize accounting accreditation, an institution must maintain AACSB business accreditation. Then, in addition to developing and implementing a mission-driven plan to satisfy the business accreditation quality standards, accounting accreditation requires the satisfaction of an additional set of standards that are specific to the discipline