From October 4th to October 6th, 2021, the National Economics University worked with the ACBSP accreditation team to conduct an official assessment for 10 majors of the Excellent Programs, Advanced Programs and POHE Programs. Due to the impact of the COVID -19 epidemic, the working sessions took place online on the Microsoft Teams platform.
Attending the official assessment were Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Hong Chuong – NEU President; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bui Duc Tho - Chairman of the University Council; Prof. Dr. Tran Tho Dat - Chairman of Science & Training Council, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bui Huy Nhuong - Vice President together with representatives of Heads of NEU departments, faculties, NEU lecturers and students.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Hong Chuong - NEU President in the interview by ACBSP
Prof. Dr. Tran Tho Dat - Chairman of Science & Training Council in the interview
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bui Duc Tho - Chairman of NEU Council in the interview
For accreditation, accrediting majors would need to meet 6 standards and 27 criteria of level 1 and 61 criteria of level 2 required by ACBSP. 6 standards set by ACBSP are Leadership, Strategic Planning, Students and Stakeholders Focus, Measurement & Analysis of Student Learning & Performance, Faculty & Staff Focus, Educational & Business Process Management.
Standard 1: Leadership:
- The leader of the business unit is to be accountable for the development, execution and continuous improvement of the programs and processes in the business unit, and for their compliance with the ACBSP Standards and Criteria.
- Social Responsibility
Standard 2: Strategic Planning
- The business unit must have a formal process by which its strategic direction is determined, its action plans are formulated and deployed, and innovation and creativity are encouraged
- Strategy Deployment
Standard 3: Student and Stakeholder Focus
- Business programs must determine (or target) the student segments its educational programs will address.
- The business unit will have identified its major stakeholders, and found methods to listen and to learn from its stakeholders in order to determine both student and stakeholder requirements and expectations.
- The business unit will periodically review listening and learning methods to keep them current with educational service needs and directions.
- The business unit will have a process to use the information obtained from students and stakeholders for purposes of planning educational programs, offerings, and services; marketing; process improvements; and the development of other services.
- The business unit should have processes to attract and retain students, and to build relationships with desired stakeholders.
- The business unit should have a process to seek information, pursue common purposes, and receive complaints from students and stakeholders.
- The business unit should have a system to determine student and key stakeholder satisfaction and dissatisfaction.
- The business unit should present graphs or tables of assessment results pertinent to this standard.
Standard 4: Measurement and Analysis of Student Learning and Performance
- The business unit shall have a learning outcomes assessment program.
- To identify trends, the business programs should report, at a minimum, three successive sets of periodic assessment results.
- Assessment plans should be designed to yield comparative information and data both over time and with respect to benchmarks and intended outcomes.
- The business unit shall make use of the learning outcomes assessment results analyzed in criterion 4.2 to improve its educational processes in the interest of continuously improving student learning outcomes. The business unit must describe specific improvements it has made to its programs, based on information obtained from its learning outcomes assessment results, for a minimum of three improvement cycles.
Standard 5: Faculty and Staff Focus
- Human Resource Planning
- Employment Practices
- Faculty Qualifications, Workload, and Coverage
- Faculty Deployment
- Faculty Size and Load
- Faculty Evaluation
- Faculty and Staff Operational Procedures, Policies and Practices, and Development
- Scholarly and Professional Activities
Standard 6: Educational & business process management.
- Education Design and Delivery
- Management of Educational Support Service Processes and Business Operation Processes
- Enrollment Management
Representatives of School of AEP in the interview
Virtual site visit
With the goal of constantly improving the quality of teaching and learning and contributing more value to the education, National Economics University has step by step bettered the quality of education to achieve rigorous accreditation standards of ACBSP in particular and international accreditation standards in general.
ACBSP has a large membership in 60 countries with 1200 branches and 1300 lecturers.