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AACSB Membership Past and Present number of women are enrolling in PhD programs and teaching at busi- ness schools. More schools are plac- ing a stronger emphasis on research. More schools are effectively creat- ing more memorable brands. One of the strongest general trends in management education over the past ten years has been the push toward globalization. Schools have developed international partnerships, recruited heavily from overseas, and built their own campuses in foreign countries. And schools from around the world have stepped forward to become major players. For instance, ten years ago, only 22 percent of AACSB's educational members were located outside the U.S. By 2011, that number had risen to 47 percent. The greatest change has been in Asia, where there's been an 882 percent jump. Membership has also surged in Europe and Oceanic countries. There has been similar growth in numbers of non-U.S. schools that have achieved AACSB accredi- tation. In 2001, not quite 6 percent of the accredited schools were from outside the U.S. In 2011, that number rose to almost 24 percent. Again, the greatest concentration of new accreditations occurred in Asia and Europe. More schools in the U.S. also are globalizing in terms of the stu- dents they enroll and the faculty they hire. According to AACSB data that relied on a sample of approximately 100 schools, only 4 percent of the MBA students in 2001 Percent of Schools… With master's programs Considered small (with 35 or fewer full-time faculty) With high emphasis on teaching With high emphasis on discipline-based research With named or distinctly branded schools Percent of Faculty Who Are… Full-time with tenured or tenure-track positions Full-time Full-time equivalent or part-time Full-time with doctoral degree Academically qualified Professionally qualified Percentage of Women Among… Faculty Deans Undergraduate degree recipients Generalist master's degree recipients Specialist master's degree recipients Doctoral degree recipients 88% 33% 91% 41% 35% 83% 82% 17% 86% (data not collected) (data not collected) 23% 16% 46% 36% 56% 34% in 2011 94% 31% 88% 64% 48% 65% 80% 19% 76% 62% 32% 30% 18% 45% 36% 48% 38% How has AACSB membership evolved in the past ten years? One major change reflects the makeup of the membership itself. In 2001, the association's Business School Questionnaire only collected data from U.S. members; in 2011, responses reflect data from a much more global membership pool. Thus, information shown in these tables might not necessarily indicate trends among business schools internationally as much as they reflect trends among AACSB members. The sharpest changes are visible in two areas. In 2011, a larger proportion of member schools reported an emphasis on discipline-based research, likely reflecting the priorities of new schools added since 2001, rather than changes within existing member institutions. In addition, there has been a noticeable drop in the percentage of full-time faculty with doctoral degrees, most likely arising from the increased number of professionally qualified faculty that can be found in today's business schools. (Source: AACSB International Business School Questionnaire) TEACHING & LEARNING WORDS OF WISDOM "Regardless of how comfortable administrators, faculty, and students may be with the traditional functional silos, most recognize that an inte- grated approach to learning is more relevant to the challenges businesses now face." — Stephen A. Stumpf and Walter G. Tymon Jr., "Connecting the Dots," January/February 2002 (then and now, both with Villanova University in Pennsylvania) BizEd November/December 2011 53