Newsroom :: UMT MBA Program Gains Recognition from the Hong Kong Education Bureau

ARLINGTON, Virginia, June 19, 2008 – The University of Management and Technology (UMT) is pleased to announce that its Master of Business Administration (MBA) program has gained official recognition by the Education Bureau (formerly Education and Manpower Bureau, EMB) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.

The application process to gain such recognition from the HK Education Bureau was accomplished through the joint effort of the UMT and the Interactive Education (HK) Ltd, UMT’s Hong Kong Representative Office. Under the leadership of Mr. Charles Huang and Mr. Tony Hui, the application team demonstrated that the UMT MBA program meets the rigorous standards set by Section 10 of the Non-local Higher and Professional Education Ordinance. UMT’s MBA is now registered at the Education Bureau and the EMB registration number is 261825.

The MBA program's recognition was received 11 months after UMT’s Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) program gained recognition by the EMB.

With the recognition of the Hong Kong Education Bureau, UMT is allowed to recruit MBA students in Hong Kong to enroll in its US based online degree programs. Hong Kong students will also be eligible to receive government funding to study in the UMT MBA program.
For more information about the UMT programs in Hong Kong, please visit: www.umthk.com.

UMT is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC, www.detc.org). The Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council is listed by the U.S. Department of Education as a nationally recognized accrediting agency. The Distance Education and Training Council was founded in 1926 to promote good educational standards and ethical business practices in the institutions in the United States. In 1955, DETC established its independent eleven-member Accrediting Commission, which shortly thereafter gained the recognition from the U.S. Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

UMT is an institutional member of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (www.chea.org). CHEA is a private, nonprofit national organization that coordinates accreditation activities in the United States. CHEA is the largest institutional higher education membership organization in the United States with approximately 3,000 accredited colleges and universities and more than 60 participating national, regional, and specialized accrediting organizations.

UMT's Project Management degrees earned Specialized and Professional Accreditation by the Global Accreditation Center (GAC) for the Project Management Institute (PMI, www.pmi.org).

UMT is also a Global Registered Education Provider of PMI. With over 200,000 members worldwide, the PMI is the leading nonprofit professional association in the area of Project Management. PMI also is recognized as a specialized accreditation body by the ASPA.

ASPA is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a specialized accreditation body and has a membership of over 60 accrediting agencies representing 45 professions. (www.aspa-usa.org)

UMT is authorized to operate an institution of higher education, to enroll students, and to award associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (www.schev.edu).

UMT is approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of U.S. Department of Homeland Security to accept F-1 visa international students to study at UMT’s campuses in the United States.

UMT is approved by U.S. Department of State to accept J-1 visa international exchange students to study at UMT’s campuses in the United States.