Accreditation

The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University is a fully accredited institution of higher education. 

Claremont Graduate University is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) and holds the prestigious classification of Doctoral Research University – Extensive, granted by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.  In 2002, WASC gave the University an unconditional ten-year reaccredidation.  This is the longest possible reaffirmation WASC can give an institution. 

The Drucker School is fully accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).  The AACSB is a not-for-profit corporation of educational institutions, corporations, and other organizations devoted to the promotion and improvement of higher education in business administration and management.  AACSB accreditation is the standard to which all major undergraduate and graduate schools of business hold themselves.

In April 2008, the Drucker School received a Reaffirmation of its AACSB Accreditation. In addition to the formal extension of reaccreditation, the School earned strong praise for its "best practices" in, among other things, our excellent faculty-student relationships, our emphasis on the Drucker Difference, and the service orientation of the staff. To read Dean Ira A. Jackson's full report on the Drucker School's reaccreditation, click HERE. 

Additionally, our MBA and Executive MBA academic programs are members and participants in their respective professional associations: the Graduate Management Admissions Council and the Executive MBA Council.