Quality development
We educate responsible professionals and conduct research with high societal impact.
Karlstad Business School is actively working with quality development. One step in this work is that we have become accredited to AACSB. Our mission is to provide education for a responsible leadership, which is why Karlstad Business School has signed on to the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME).
AACSB
Karlstad Business School is accredited to AACSB.
AACSB International is a association of educational institutions, business, not-for-profit, and government organizations devoted to the advancement of higher education in business.
Responsible management education
Karlstad Business School has signed on to the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME). The PRME initiative is the first organised relationship between the United Nations and management-related academic institutions, business schools, and universities. Launched at the 2007 UN Global Compact Leaders Summit in Geneva, the Principles provide an engagement framework for academic institutions to advance corporate sustainability and social responsibility through the incorporation of universal values into curricula and research. To date, over 600 leading business schools and management-related academic institutions from more than 80 countries across the world are signatories of PRME. Even more, over one third of the Financial Times' top 100 business schools participate in PRME.
Student interaction - assessment for quality
Students views and experience of courses, study programmes, exams and services are of vital importance to the quality development at Karlstad Business School. Students' feedback on completed courses and the student-student as well as student-faculty interactions in relation to the course syllabus and learning goals, is collected via the university's semi-automated system. The teacher responsible for the course (course instructor) analyzes the result based on student comments. The course analysis is published at the course web page and is sent to the Head of Karlstad Business School. The program directors discuss and evaluate each course together with student representative in the Study Program Committee, which can lead to improvements and further development. Notes from the Study Program Committee are presented and discussed in the Subject Committee each semester and give impact on the next instance of the course. One student is representing at the next level, in the Department Committee where all directors of studies are participating among other faculty members.
Three students are members of the External Advisory Board; those are also invited to the Karlstad Business School KBS student team. The student team is a cross degree program advisory board in addition to student representing their own degree program type in different Student Associations, directed by the Student Union at the university. Thus, students are involved in interactions with particularly those faculty members who have primary responsibilities for program development, course development, course delivery, and evaluation to assure quality. The KBS student team provides a direct channel between the Management Team to student representative.
Articles on quality development at Karlstad business school
Karlstad Business School is accredited to AACSB
Karlstad Business School to be reviewed for international accreditation
Karlstad Business School has been a member of AACSB since 2010, which is about a systematic approach to development and change, learning as well as collaboration and external engagement. Now the review for accreditation is approaching.
Bo Edvardsson ranks high on prestigious list from Stanford University
The list ranks two percent of the world’s most prominent researchers. Among almost 160,000 researchers, whose publications have accelerated progress in their respective fields, there are ten representatives from Karlstad University. Bo Edvardsson ended up on an impressive 32nd place in the category marketing.
Karlstad Business School is one step closer to accreditation
Karlstad Business School has qualified for a final review by AACSB, a non-profit organisation that works with quality enhancement and accreditation of business schools around the world. The review will be performed in connection with a site visit late 2020 or early 2021.
Business administration students provided valuable input to Karlstad Business School’s quality enhancement activities
Marketing Strategies is a course for business administration students who are in their final year of the bachelor's programme or the third year of the Programme in Business and Economics . The course offers students an opportunity to work with real-life cases to improve the marketing strategies of companies or organisations. In the autumn of last year, Karlstad Business School acted as the client and received important input for their continued quality enhancement activities.
Karlstad Business School is one step closer to accreditation
Karlstad Business School has qualified for a final review by AACSB, a non-profit organisation that works with quality enhancement and accreditation of business schools around the world. The review will be performed in connection with a site visit late 2020 or early 2021.
Eight researchers from Karlstad University at top 100 list
Eight researchers from Karlstad University are included in the list of the 100 most cited researchers according to the Swedish news magazine Fokus. The list include the researchers in Sweden who have been most frequently cited in international scientific journals.