The effect of international accreditations on students’ revealed preferences: Evidence from French Business schools

This paper evaluates how three different international accreditations for business schools (AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA) affect student preferences, expressed via enrollment decisions. Focusing on the French context, we build a relative preference indicator to compare using data collected by central clearinghouse that allocates students schools. We observe all positively significantly influence students, but impact of AACSB accreditation is larger than other two accreditations. Having an equivalent moving up four places in rankings L’étudiant magazine, whereas having or AMBA similar places. also find sizeable “triple crown” effect, meaning tend complement each other. Our results are robust ways assessing potential self-selection into accreditation.