QUT Business School, located at the Gardens Point Campus in Brisbane, has once again been recognised as one of the best in the world, maintaining the rare honour of Triple Crown accreditation following its latest AACSB re-accreditation.
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The renewal, combined with a recent EQUIS re-accreditation and a 2023 AMBA re-accreditation, confirms QUT’s place among a group so exclusive that fewer than one per cent of business schools globally hold all three credentials simultaneously.
Back in 2005, QUT became the first business school in Australia to achieve Triple Crown status, a distinction it has maintained ever since.
Professor Sharon Christensen, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law, said the AACSB renewal was a reflection of the school’s ongoing commitment to excellence across teaching, research, and industry engagement — not simply a periodic compliance exercise. She noted that the rigorous peer-review process examined the depth of academic capability, the quality of student experience, and the real-world impact of the school’s research and partnerships.
The AACSB, founded in 1916, is the world’s largest standard-setting body for business education, counting more than 1,900 member organisations across over 100 countries and territories. Yet membership alone is no guarantee of accreditation. Only six per cent of institutions worldwide that offer business degrees have cleared the bar. In Australia, just 24 institutions carry the credential.
For prospective students weighing up their options, that context matters. Professor Christensen noted that accreditation provides meaningful assurance that QUT’s degrees meet internationally recognised standards, that the curriculum is demanding, future-focused, and built around genuine connections to business, government, and community.
The Triple Crown itself carries weight precisely because it is hard to earn and harder still to keep. Each of the three accrediting bodies, AACSB, EQUIS, and AMBA, conducts its own independent review process, making the simultaneous achievement of all three particularly demanding. Professor Christensen noted that the school viewed Triple Crown accreditation not as a destination but as an ongoing discipline, one embedded in how QUT Business School teaches, researches, and engages on a continuing basis.
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For a school based in the heart of Brisbane, with campuses at Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove, the international recognition carries local significance. It signals to students and partners, locally and internationally, that QUT meets the highest global standards in business education.
With the re-accreditation secured, QUT Business School has reaffirmed its standing among the world’s leading institutions, a position it has held, and worked to maintain, for two decades.
Published 9-March-2026
