Degree

The MBI program is a complete master program leading to the degree of an "International Master of Business Informatics".

The master's degree is formally awarded by the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) in Germany in cooperation with VGU (example of MBI certificates). While the latter one provides expertise and teaching for the program, EUV is responsible for ensuring that the academic and educational standards of the program are maintained at an appropriate level. This cooperation ensures that the master's degree awarded is an official degree fully recognized by German law.

MBI accreditation

The Master of Business Informatics program is double accredited.

ACQUIN, the Accreditation, Certification and Quality Assurance Institute, accredited the MBI program on March 24, 2006 (ACQUIN certificate). ACQUIN is a non-governmental accreditation agency for wide range of study programs, assessing both academic quality and practical relevance of such programs. Until this time, the MBI program was accredited by FIBAA, the Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA certificates).

Accreditation by dedicated accrediting agencies, as an additional quality-assurance step, is quite a new thing in Central Europe. It started only in 2001. ACQUIN was one of the first agencies at all to obtain government authorization in Germany to do accreditations.

The other accredition process - and still the more important one today - is a multi-level quality assurance process passing several university committees, and finally leading to an official act of government approval (or not). The MBI program went through that process successfully in 2001 already and received the ministerial act on September 6, 2001.