2018年7月，华南理工大学广州学院顺利通过IACBE正式会员资格评审，国际经济与贸易等4个专业获得正式会员资格，我校成为中国第一所获得IACBE国际商科认证的大学。

IACBE（International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education，国际大学商学院教育认证委员会）成立于1997年，是一所非营利性质的学术机构。2011年1月获美国高等教育认证委员会（CHEA）的肯定与许可。其认证的宗旨是：不以相关投入和资源的硬性规定为标准，而是遵循以人才培养目标、培养过程和结果为标准的一个认证过程。旨在为国际上办学优秀的大学商学院提供专业认证。

通过IACBE认证需要完成三个阶段：1.申请成为教育会员；2.取得候选人资格；3.申请认证。我校已于2013年11月完成了认证过程的第一阶段，率先成为IACBE在中国大陆的第一校所教育会员单位。2016年12月，学校成功通过候选人资格评审，2018年7月，我校4个专业获得正式会员资格。
     华工广州学院在全国率先申请并成功获得IACBE认证，反映出学校在商科教学质量管理以及教育国际化方面取得显著成绩，显示出学校在国际认证处于国内领先地位，申请国际认证不仅符合国家与广东省鼓励高校开展专业认证的政策方向，也提升了我校商科教学质量，增强了学校办学竞争力和国际知名度，有利于实现我校创建“省内一流、国内知名”的应用型大学的发展目标。

IACBE Accreditation

    July 2018 – Announced by the Board of Commissioners of the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE), Guangzhou College of South China University of Technology (GCU) in Guangzhou, China has been granted first-time accreditation of the business and management programs offered through School of Management and School of Economics, and GCU is the first university in China with IACBE accredited programs.
    
    About the IACBE – The International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE) was founded in 1997 and is nationally-recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). The IACBE is the leader in mission-driven and outcomes-based programmatic accreditation in business and management education for student-centered colleges, universities, and other higher education institutions throughout the world. The IACBE has hundreds of member institutions and campuses worldwide, and has accredited over 1,500 business and business-related programs in the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Central America, and South America.

    About GCU’s IACBE application process – The application for the IACBE accreditation mainly goes through three stages: educational member, candidacy and accredited member. GCU has been educational member of the IACBE since November 2013 and is the first member institution of the IACBE in China. From 20115-2016, GCU completed the Outcomes Assessment Plan and handed in candidacy application in May 2016. Candidacy site-visit was accomplished in September 2016 and four business programs have successfully been granted candidacy status in December 2016. In July 2018, GCU has been successfully granted first-time accreditation of the business and management programs.

     Our school has successfully obtained the official membership of IACBE this time is beneficial to the continuous improvement of the quality and academic level of teaching for commercial majors, and increase of the school’s competitiveness and international popularity.