The NBEAC re-accreditation process provides the accredited business schools to re-examine their vision as a university and explain what they are doing to achieve it. For accredited business schools, the NBEAC re-accreditation is vital. It is also an enormous undertaking. A university must compile and submit an in-depth self-study, addressing the standards of the NBEAC and how they have met them since the last visit.

Keeping this in view, NBEAC effectively completed an accreditation visit at the University Of Management & Technology (UMT), Lahore on the 22^nd, 23^rd and 24^th of November 2017. After a very warm welcome by the business school, brief discussions were held regarding the distinctive characteristics and features of the NBEAC accreditation process. This was followed by a tour of the business school, which was later followed by six sessions on NBEAC standards with the heads of the of the business school on the first day. The objective of this visit was to obtain in-depth information concerning all administrative and educational aspects of the program and a thorough review of the Business School based upon the nine key standards of NBEAC. 

The three day extensive review involved meetings, discussions and interviews with management, faculty, students, alumni, Industry representatives, support staff, and observing the course delivery methods. The objective of Peer Review Team (PRT) is to make recommendations through gap analysis for the improvement of Business School.

The Peer Review team comprised of Dr. Shahid Mir (Director QEC IBA Karachi), Dr. Imran Wazir (Associate Professor, IMSciences, Peshawar), Mr. Adil Amin Kazi (Assistant Professor, FAST _NU Islamabad), Dr. Qaiser Malik (Associate Professor, Foundation University, Islamabad) and Mr. Usman Tahir, Director Advisory Services, Grant Thornton Consulting, Lahore and Ms. Sania Tufail ( Program Manager, NBEAC).

A detailed report along with the accreditation decision will be communicated to the business school after the next meeting of the council which is expected to be held in December 2017.