[International Reaccreditation Achieved] Chuo Business School Successfully Maintains AMBA Accreditation

On September 5, 2025, Chuo University’s Graduate School of Strategic Management (Chuo Business School, CBS) successfully renewed its international accreditation from AMBA (The Association of MBAs), a UK-based global accreditation body for business education.

International business education accreditation guarantees the quality of a business school’s educational and research activities through evaluation by an independent third-party organization. With this reaccreditation, CBS has confirmed that it continues to maintain educational and research standards on par with the world’s leading business schools, and its ongoing commitment to improving the quality of education has been highly evaluated.

AMBA, established in 1967 in the UK, is one of the three major international accreditation organizations alongside AACSB (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, USA) and EFMD (The European Foundation for Management Development, Belgium). As of 2025, only 316 business schools worldwide—approximately 2% of all business schools—have been accredited by AMBA, and in Japan, only a few schools, including CBS, hold this prestigious accreditation.

During this reaccreditation process, CBS’s continuous evolution of practical educational programs focused on the growth of working graduate students, the active and extensive CBS alumni community nationwide, and the university’s longstanding tradition of emphasizing not only knowledge education but also practical application based on its founding spirit of "Fostering the Ability to Apply Knowledge to Practice," were highly praised.

Through this reaccreditation, it is expected that CBS will further strengthen its collaboration with AMBA’s international network of world-class business schools. Taking this opportunity, CBS will continue to work as a whole university to further enhance the value provided to current students, alumni, and its educational programs.

●About AMBA
AMBA is an international accreditation body for business education established in the UK in 1967. For more information regarding AMBA, please visit the following website.
[AMBA website]
https://www.associationofmbas.com

●About CBS
CBS is a graduate school dedicated to business professionals, and its primary focus is experienced businesspeople (average age 40-years old). Please refer to the following links for an overview of the features and curriculum of CBS.
[CBS English webpage]
https://www.chuo-u.ac.jp/english/academics/professional/business/

[CBS Feature (Japanese only)]
https://www.chuo-u.ac.jp/academics/pro_graduateschool/business/features/

[CBS Curriculum (Japanese only)]
https://www.chuo-u.ac.jp/academics/pro_graduateschool/business/mba/