SBS Swiss Business School

SBS Swiss Business School is a private business school, located in Zurich, Switzerland, with affiliated campuses in Latvia, Kazakhstan, the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Argentina, India, Myanmar and Spain.

History

SBS Swiss Business School was founded in 1998 as a private institution.

Academic programs

SBS Swiss Business School offers a variety of programs. All academic programs are taught in English. SBS delivers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs such as Bachelor, Master and Doctoral degrees.
Undergraduate and graduate programs are proposed in several disciplines, including Business administration, E-Commerce and Science.
An Executive MBA, an Online MBA and a Doctorate Program in Business Administration are also available.

Accreditation status

SBS Swiss Business School has received institutional accreditation in accordance with the Swiss Higher Education Act.
The Swiss Accreditation Council has accredited SBS as a University of Applied Sciences Institute after a comprehensive quality assessment process conducted by the Agency for Accreditation and Quality Assurance.
SBS Swiss Business School is additionally accredited by the British Accreditation Council, and professionally accredited by Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs as well as the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education. IACBE and ACBSP are U.S. based accreditation bodies that are accredited by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, a recognized accrediting organization that is recognized by the U.S Department of Education.
Furthermore, SBS Swiss Business School holds a Swiss Quality Assurance Certificate for providers in the field of Adult Learning and is certified by SWISS LABEL, a protected trademark symbol in Switzerland that is granted to members with genuine Swiss high-quality services and products.
SBS's Cross-Border Accreditation
SBS Swiss Business School is considered a case study in cross-border accreditation, a model recognized by international higher education organizations.
According to the MACCA Manual – Mercosur Accreditation Agency, “cross-border accreditation plays a significant role in higher education.” UNESCO and the OECD define cross-border education as education in which “the teacher, student, program, institution/provider, or course materials cross national borders.”
Although not accredited by the Swiss Accreditation Council, SBS Swiss Business School has obtained institutional accreditation from the Distance Education Accrediting Commission of the United States, an agency recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the U.S. Department of Education.
This model confirms the practice already consolidated in international higher education: accreditation agencies, whether institutional or programmatic, do not limit their activities to their national territory of origin, and can evaluate and accredit universities in different countries.

Memberships

SBS Swiss Business School is a member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the Swiss Adult Education Association, the Swiss Federation of Private Schools, and the Swiss Private School Register

Rankings

Since 2012, the MBA programs of SBS Swiss Business School have been ranked as tier one MBA academic programs by the CEO Magazine Global MBA Rankings. SBS Swiss Business School has been ranked by CEO magazine for the year 2021 for the following programs: – #3 Global Online MBA, #3 Global Executive MBA, Tier One Global MBA and a Premier DBA Program.
Furthermore, SBS Swiss Business School has been ranked by:

Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2021 as the only private academic institution out of the five higher education institutions in Switzerland. The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings are the only global performance tables that assess universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
QS Quacquarelli Symonds, which lists the top 57 Online MBA programs across the world for the 2021 edition of the QS Online MBA Rankings. SBS Swiss Business School is the only higher education institution ranked from Switzerland.

In March 2025, SBS Swiss Business School achieved significant recognition in the CEO Magazine 2025 Global MBA Rankings. The institution's Executive MBA program was ranked 5th globally, while its Online MBA program secured the 6th position worldwide. Additionally, SBS was acknowledged as a Tier One Global MBA provider, and its Doctor of Business Administration program was listed among the top global DBA programs.

Partner institutions

SBS Swiss Business School has affiliated academic partnerships with the following academic institutions worldwide:

Al Tareeqah Management Studies in U.A.E,
Hong Kong Management Association in Hong Kong, China
Pacific Prime School in Myanmar,
BA School of Business and Finance in Riga, Latvia,
EurAsia Business School in Almaty, Kazakhstan
Swiss Business School Chine Center, China
IILM Institute of Higher Education in New Delhi, India
Institute Development & Exchange for Applied Sciences in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Notable alumni

Randy Abbey, Ghanaian media personality and sports administrator.
Fatema Al Harbi, Bahraini author and peace activist
Kurt Maloo, singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer.
Albert Rau, Kazakh politician and economist, Deputy Chairman and Member of the Mäjilis.
Rolf Theiler, businessman