Accreditation and Awards
Social Entrepreneurship is Affiliated with the Top International Business Organizations
Dive into these organizations' rigorous quality standards and principles below.
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AACSB-International Accredited
Rollins is the first social entrepreneurship major in the world accredited by AACSB-International. Fewer than 5% of business programs worldwide have attained this accreditation; this means that the social entrepreneurship major is the highest quality global business program.
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PRME Affiliated
Demonstrating our commitment to international principles of responsible management education, the social entrepreneurship major is affiliated with PRME. This is the largest organized relationship between the United Nations and business schools around the world.
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Ashoka U Changemaker Campus
Rollins is one of only 46 colleges & universities around the world to have this designation, illustrating our international leadership in social entrepreneurship education.
AACSB-International
Advancing Quality Management Education Worldwide
AACSB provides internationally recognized, specialized accreditation for business and accounting programs at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral level. The AACSB Accreditation Standards challenge post-secondary educators to pursue excellence and continuous improvement throughout their business programs. AACSB Accreditation is known, worldwide, as the longest standing, most recognized form of specialized/professional accreditation an institution and its business programs can earn.
AACSB-accredited schools must pass very rigorous quality standards. They have been proven to provide the best in business education worldwide. AACSB-accredited schools...
- are recognized worldwide by top employers and other universities.
- have employers that only hire their graduates. have more access to recruiters.
- have graduates that receive higher, more competitive salaries.
- say being accredited improves the quality of their business programs.
- say being accredited helps them hire and retain the best professors and researchers.
- have students that are more international and are likely to earn higher levels of education.
- have students with high-graduating GPAs
- are challenging and teach the best skills that give a distinct advantage in the real world.
AACSB-accredited schools have the highest-quality faculty, deliver relevant and challenging curriculum, and provide educational and career opportunities that are not found at other business schools.
AACSB Accreditation represents the highest standard of achievement for business schools worldwide. Less than 5 percent of the more than 16,000 schools worldwide granting business degrees have earned AACSB Accreditation. AACSB-accredited schools produce graduates who are highly skilled and more desirable to employers than other non-accredited schools.
PRME
Principles for Responsible Business Management Education
The Social Entrepreneurship major has incorporated the 6 principles of responsible management education (PRME) into its curriculum, and Rollins College is a formal participant in the PRME global network. PRME's mission, as supported by the United Nations Global Compact, "is to transform management education, research and thought leadership globally by providing the Principles for Responsible Management Education framework, developing learning communities and promoting awareness about the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals"
Principle 1 | Purpose: We will develop the capabilities of students to be future generators of sustainable value for business and society at large and to work for an inclusive and sustainable global economy.
Principle 2 | Values: We will incorporate into our academic activities and curricula the values of global social responsibility as portrayed in international initiatives such as the United Nations Global Compact.
Principle 3 | Method: We will create educational frameworks, materials, processes and environments that enable effective learning experiences for responsible leadership.
Principle 4 | Research: We will engage in conceptual and empirical research that advances our understanding about the role, dynamics, and impact of corporations in the creation of sustainable social, environmental and economic value.
Principle 5 | Partnership: We will interact with managers of business corporations to extend our knowledge of their challenges in meeting social and environmental responsibilities and to explore jointly effective approaches to meeting these challenges.
Principle 6 | Dialogue: We will facilitate and support dialog and debate among educators, students, business, government, consumers, media, civil society organizations and other interested groups and stakeholders on critical issues related to global social responsibility and sustainability.
Ashoka U
Ashoka U Changemaker Campus is the leading designation for social innovation and social entrepreneurship in higher education.
Changemaker Campus is a community of leaders and institutions who work collectively to make social innovation, social entrepreneurship, and changemaking the new norm in higher education and beyond. The Changemaker Campus program selects diverse institutions who:
- Represent higher education globally,
- Model campus-wide excellence in social innovation and changemaking; and
- Are committed to transforming the field of higher education through collaboration and thought leadership.
These institutions collaborate with each other and Ashoka to transform higher education and leverage their individual and collective power to advance changemaking in all sectors.
Currently over 40 colleges and universities globally are recognized as Changemaker Campuses. These institutions differ in terms of size, institutional type, geographic location, religious affiliation, and age, but are united in the extraordinary social innovation education they provide their students. Changemaker Campuses are the global leaders in social innovation and changemaking in higher education, and represent a vision of what education and universities can be.