European Foundation for Management Development (EFDM) is a global, non-profit, membership driven organisation dedicated to management development. Recognized globally as an accreditation body for business schools, business school programs, and corporate universities. Members come from education, industry, non-profit organization and management elites in various fields. They come from more than 70 countries. There are more than 600 institutional members and more than 15,000 individual members.

EFMD was created to act as a bridge between academia and industry, to enhance the education quality of the member schools, and offer an interactive platform for professionals, institutions and international organizations of business management. EFMD provides a wide range of targeted learning, networking and professional development services, including various business school accreditation certificates (EQUIS and EPAS), corporation accreditation certificates (CLIP) and online course accreditation (EOCCS).

For business schools accreditation, EQUIS accreditation ensures a rigorous quality control, benchmarking your school against international standards in terms of governance, programs, students, faculty, research, internationalization, ethics, responsibility and sustainability, as well as engagement with the world of practice. It is an elite certificate and only 170 schools have received EQUIS accreditation,