FEB UIN Jakarta Targets AACSB Accreditation, Aims for Global Standards by 2029-2030
The Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) at UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta is preparing to pursue international accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) after its Doctoral Programme in Islamic Banking received an ‘Excellent’ rating from the Independent Accreditation Institute for Economics, Management, Business, and Accounting (LAMEMBA). The preparations include strengthening academic governance, lecturer quality, quality assurance systems, and updating the curriculum and dissertation guidelines.
Dean of FEB UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta Ibnu Qizam stated that the ‘Excellent’ rating from LAMEMBA serves as a foundation for raising academic standards towards international recognition. ‘We have established a strong institutional transformation vision to become a Global Islamic Business School. We are targeting the preparation of AACSB eligibility documents to be mature in the 2029–2030 period. For this, improvements in quality, supervision service discipline, and standardisation of doctoral student research quality must be implemented concretely immediately,’ said Ibnu Qizam in a statement on Friday (21/8/2026).
He said FEB UIN Jakarta is also targeting an increase in the proportion of lecturers with Scholarly Academic (SA) qualifications from around 20 percent to at least 60 percent by 2029. This target is necessary to meet the faculty sufficiency standards in AACSB accreditation.
Professor and Head of the Postgraduate Management Science Programme at FEB Universitas Indonesia Sri Rahayu Hijrah Hati said the international accreditation process needs to be built based on the institution’s conditions and uniqueness, not merely chasing document completeness. ‘AACSB assessors greatly appreciate institutional uniqueness. The dual regulatory limitations from the Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology at UIN Jakarta should be honestly narrated as the institution’s operational history. The most crucial point is how FEB UIN highlights its quality distinction, namely the integration of economic knowledge and Islamic values (Integration of Knowledge) concretely translated into the Curriculum and Graduate Learning Outcomes,’ explained Cici.
Cici also outlined several aspects that need strengthening, from mapping lecturer portfolios, an Assurance of Learning (AoL) system based on direct measurement, to financing needs to support institutional transformation.
Meanwhile, Head of the Islamic Banking Doctoral Programme Nur Hidayah said the programme is preparing several changes to the curriculum and dissertation guidelines to improve quality and accelerate doctoral students’ study completion. One change is the implementation of a special Systematic Literature Review (SLR) class. The programme allocates three of the eight scientific publication credits to the SLR method course in the first semester.
Through this method, students are targeted to have a publication draft ready for submission to reputable international journals before their results hearing. The programme targets doctoral students’ study period to reach an average of 3 to 3.5 years.
In addition, students will be encouraged to improve artificial intelligence (AI) literacy to support academic productivity. The use of various AI tools remains accompanied by reference verification through academic databases such as Scopus.
The programme is also preparing a dissertation format option based on a compilation of three journal article manuscripts connected under one umbrella research. This format serves as an alternative to the conventional five-chapter dissertation model.
In the new academic guidelines, FEB UIN Jakarta will also establish several writing standardisations, including limiting dissertation titles to a maximum of 14 words and requiring abstracts in Indonesian, Arabic, and English.
Beyond the curriculum, FEB UIN Jakarta will strengthen the governance of the supervisor-student relationship. The supervision model is encouraged to shift from a hierarchical relationship to a collaborative partnership (value co-creation).
The faculty is also preparing a temporary deactivation (grounding) policy for supervisors proven to neglect or obstruct the student supervision process. The distribution of supervisor allocations will be published through semester plenary meetings to prevent the accumulation of students under certain supervisors.
The programme will also implement an internal Commission Hearing SOP. Before the student examination begins, the examiner team and supervisor are required to hold a 15-minute closed meeting to align improvement instructions.
The draft revision of the Dissertation Writing Guidelines and Academic Supervision SOP will be presented to all lecturers for input in early September. This step is part of FEB UIN Jakarta’s preparation towards academic governance that meets international standards.