European International University

[Eleanor]

- the ACBSP only accredits programs (programmatic accreditation). It is recognized by CHEA. ACBSP does not accredit institutions. It only accredits programs from institutions, which hold regional institutional accreditation. Outside the US, institutions of ACBSP Region 8 (Europe, Africa, Asia) must be institutionally accredited by their governments' official accreditation body.

Given that EIU-Paris has achieved ACBSP accreditation for three programs (BBA, MBA, DBA) delivered via its Dubai Regional Campus and associated online delivery, that is of material significance from a programmatic quality-assurance standpoint.

This would reasonably imply that EIU-Paris meets ACBSP’s institutional eligibility requirements, which include lawful establishment and recognition for operation in its home country. 

not necessarily. The ACBSP has had a long history of turning their head away from their own statutes, criteria, and rules. There is for example a long list of institutions in Switzerland, which do not possess official Swiss institutional accreditation, yet these institutions hold ACBSP accreditation. For this and other reasons, the ACBSP has been exposed to repeated investigation and scrutiny by CHEA and never managed its way into the US Department of Education.

I want to emphasize that institutions holding programmatic accreditation in absence of institutional government/state accreditation are not recognized (including its degrees) within the European Higher Education Area and abroad (at large).

Yet, from a quality assurance perspective ACBSP accreditation has value. I would definitely not label an ACBSP-accredited institution an intentional degree mill or scam. The effort to obtain and maintain this accreditation is too high for a bad player.