Mode Selection of Business Education Accreditation under “Double First-class” Initiative

To meet the requirements of national “Double first-class” construction plan, business schools strive to focus resources on establishing characteristic and preponderant disciplines as the “Double first-class” development goal during the 13th Five-Year Plan or even longer periods. In the trend of globalization, improving discipline construction in virtue of international accreditation in business education has become an important tool for business schools to improve education quality and enhance domestic and international reputation. Considering the effects of accreditation effort on school reputation and student skill improvement, this paper mainly studies accreditation mode selection for domestic business schools in the process of business education accreditation. The results show that: 1) accreditation effort across different accreditation modes shows performance of significant differences in improving school reputation; and 2) business education accreditation has positive impact on both school reputation and student skill improvement, thus uplifts the competitiveness of business school. This paper appears to be the first to study business education accreditation of business schools with quantitative analysis, and provides significant theoretical guidance for domestic business schools to promote the construction of first-class disciplines.