This achievement underscores the quality of the business program Fresno State offers. Accreditation of the school's baccalaureate and master's degree programs in business was reaffirmed in a March 5 memo to Evans from the I.A.M.E., a national accrediting agency for bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs in business administration and accounting. Evans said the school and its programs have long been held in high esteem in academia. Accreditation was first awarded to Fresno State in 1959, when it became only the third public institution in California to be nationally accredited by the agency, preceded by the UC campuses in Berkeley and Los Angeles. Of the nation's 1,300 business programs, just 352 are accredited.
Many business programs make achieving and maintaining accreditation as their primary goal.
At the Craig School, we consider accreditation the minimum standard of quality, and most of our programs far exceed that standard.