Standards Compliance Review (AUP)

In 2005, MBA CSEA developed a Standards Compliance Review process (formerly known as AUP, or Agreed Upon Procedures), to increase knowledge of the Standards and improve interpretation by a diverse audience. Each year, member schools have the opportunity to enter data into our Employment Data System and elect to make it eligible for an external review. 20 schools are randomly selected from those who are eligible. A CPA firm reviews their data and data collection processes in comparison with the Standards to recommend ways the school can improve, as well as share best practices. MBA CSEA publishes the list of schools who elect to be eligible for a review. The list of the 20 schools who are selected and participate, and the results from the reviews, remain confidential and are not shared with other schools.

Schools who are eligible for a Standards Compliance Review are making an external statement that their data is collected according to the Standards and that they are open to their data collection processes being evaluated by an external review firm.

Schools that make their data eligible for a review benefit from...

• External acknowledgment that their employment data is collected using agreed upon Standards and is accurate and comparable with other schools
• Tips for how to improve data collection processes
• Public recognition by MBA CSEA, as well as rankings institutions such as U.S. News & World Report
• Schools eligible for a review have the option of purchasing a Standards Badge to include on their marketing materials, indicating their participation in the process. Contact our Executive Director for more information. 

For more information about the process, please contact our Standards Consultant, Derek Walker.

How to make your data eligible for a review

Enter your data into the MBA CSEA Employment Data System from October through December each year. On the "Basic Questions" page, you will see a question asking if your school would like to participate in the program. By checking this box, you are agreeing to participate in a Compliance Review, if selected. Please note that no exceptions are provided once the selections are made. Please be sure you are authorized to make this decision on behalf of your school. 

Class of 2017 Eligible Schools

 

Arizona State University             The Pennsylvania State University Asian Institute of Management The University of Alabama Auburn University The University of Arizona Babson College The University of Chicago Baruch College - The City University of New York The University of Georgia Baylor University The University of Iowa Boston University The Universtiy of Michigan Brandeis University The University of North Carolina at Chapel HIll Carnegie Mellon University The University of Texas at Austin Case Western Reserve University Tilburg University Chapman University Tulane University China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) University of Buffalo College of William and Mary University of Arkansas Columbia University University of California, Berkeley University of California, Davis Cornell University University of California, Irvine Dartmouth College University of California, Los Angeles Duke University University of California, Riverside Emory University University of California, San Diego ESADE University of Cincinnati ESMT European School of Management and Technology University of Colorado at Boulder Fordham University University of Connecticut Georgetown University University of Denver Georgia Institute of Technology University of Florida Graziadio School of Business and Technology University of Glasgow Harvard University University of Hawaii at Manoa IESE Business School University of Houston IMD University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign Indiana University Bloomington/ Indianapolis University of Kentucky Instituto Panamericano de Alta Direccion de Empresa (IPADE) University of Maryland Iowa State University University of Miami Johns Hopkins Carey Business School University of Minnesota Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Missouri - Columbia Michigan State University University of Notre Dame Mississippi State University University of Oregon New York University Universtiy of Pennsylvania North Carolina State University Universtiy of Pittsburgh Northwestern University University of Rochester Portland State University University of San Diego Purdue University University of San Francisco Rice University University of South Carolina Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey - Newark/New Brunswick University of Southern California Sabanci University University of Tennessee at Knoxville Saint Louis University University of Utah Southern Methodist University Unversity of Virginia-Darden Stanford University University of Washington Temple University University of Wisconsin - Madison Texas A&M University Vanderbilt University Texas Christian University Washington University at St. Louis The George Washington University Williamette University The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Yale University The Ohio State University York University