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Originally Posted by ladygreek
In my opinion FAMU has one of the best business programs in the nation, yet it is not accredited. The same holds true for other HBCUs that for some reason have not achieved accreditation. This has led to a decrease of the reputations among corporate recruiters.
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As a alum of the business school, let me give my understanding of why it was never accredited. Trust, it was not because it could NOT be accredited, but with accredidation you have to change and become aligned with whatever the standards are of the accrediting body. Dean Mobley created a gem at FAMU with Professional Development - at the time there was nothing like it at any business school. business schools such as Wharton and others were clamoring trying to figure it out - what is it that Dean Mobley is doing to prepare these AA students to take the business world by storm. We were just going to class and making presentations, we were interacting one on one with CEOs of companies. We were engaging them with stimulating well researched questions. We were/are prepared to sit at the table with any corporate exec and act and talk like we are supposed to be there. D. Mobley didn't want to jeapordize that by getting accredidation from a body that couldn't measure up to what she already had created . . why when top notch corporations were actively and still are actively seeking us out. My internships were with Pfizer HQ and Chamption International HQ . . .not some mom and pop stores. I interacted with the VP of HR of Pfizer ( a sister while I was there) and met and dialoged with the VP of Marketing at Champion . . .how many can say that? In my opinion, accredidation during that time would have done nothing but hurt the program - and it wasn't needed. NOw that D. Mobley is gone and more schools have incorporated Professional Development in their curriculum, it may be needed - there is a new sister and the helm of SBI and from all accounts she is doing a good job . . . but I think with the desire to get accredited, some brilliant people were let go (former Coporate Execs) and that, in my opinion, may end up doing more harm than good. So bottom line, I don't agree with your statement that the lack of accredidation at SBI made its graduates any less competitive than others. I know several graduates (some very recent) who have been accepted to Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and other Ivy League Business schools and others who have earned their MBA's from A&M and have been hired and the top accounting firms and corporations and the lack of accredidation wasn't even an issue.