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EIMT Accreditation, Membership and European Regulatory Framework
The European Institute of Management and Technology, Switzerland, known as EIMT, is an academic institution established in the Canton of Zug, Switzerland. EIMT specialises in business, management, leadership, technology, computer science, professional development, executive education, and related areas of applied higher education.
EIMT provides flexible learning opportunities through online, blended, onsite, and other approved modes of delivery, subject to the applicable academic regulations, institutional policies, programme requirements, quality assurance standards, and student eligibility criteria.
EIMT operates under the aegis of the Euro American Education Group which is a transcontinental education conglomerate. EIMT is committed to academic quality, learner support, professional relevance, international cooperation, digital learning innovation, and continuous institutional development.
EIMT also acts, where authorised, as an Education Support Services Institute for sister institutions within the Euro American Education Group and for selected external partner colleges, institutes, universities, awarding bodies, and academic organisations. In this capacity, EIMT supports academic coordination, learner support, digital learning facilitation, administrative assistance, student engagement, tutorial support, documentation support, programme information support, and related education support services.
EIMT’s own academic identity, memberships, certifications, quality recognitions, and institutional activities should be understood separately from the statutory licensing, accreditation, recognition, or degree-awarding authority of any sister institution or partner institution. Where EIMT supports another institution, the relevant awarding institution remains responsible for its own programmes, awards, academic regulations, admission decisions, student records, certification processes, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance.
In addition to its authorised role as an Education Support Services Institute for sister institutions and selected partner institutions, the European Institute of Management and Technology, Switzerland, may also offer its own private institutional programmes, certificates, diplomas, executive education programmes, professional development programmes, and institutional awards under its own academic regulations and quality assurance procedures.
EIMT’s own programmes are offered as private institutional programmes of EIMT Switzerland. EIMT does not claim to be a Swiss university, university of applied sciences, university of teacher education, or any other institution using a legally protected designation under the Swiss Higher Education Act unless such status is separately and expressly granted by the competent Swiss authority.
Accordingly, EIMT’s own private institutional awards should be distinguished from statutory degrees or qualifications awarded by institutions holding institutional accreditation under the Swiss Higher Education Act, and should also be distinguished from awards issued by Euro American Institute, Malta, Birchwood University, USA, London School of Management and Technology, United Kingdom, or any other sister or partner institution.
EIMT’s own programmes are governed by EIMT’s internal academic regulations, admission requirements, assessment procedures, quality assurance policies, certification rules, and student agreement terms. The recognition, acceptance, equivalence, professional use, employment value, immigration use, or further study acceptance of EIMT’s own awards shall depend on the policies of the relevant employer, institution, professional body, recognition authority, government department, credential evaluator, or receiving organisation.
Prospective students who require a qualification for a regulated profession, public sector employment, professional licensing, immigration, further study, or official recognition in a particular country should verify the acceptability of the relevant EIMT award with the appropriate authority before enrolling.
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Euro American Education Group
The Euro American Education Group brings together a number of educational institutions, academic entities, training organisations, and education support structures operating across different jurisdictions.
The Group includes, among others, the European Institute of Management and Technology, Switzerland; Euro American Institute, Malta; London School of Management and Technology, United Kingdom; Birchwood University, USA; and other sister institutions, academic initiatives, education support entities, and partner institutions associated with the wider Euro American educational framework.
The institutions within the Group may share a common vision, common educational values, group-level strategic oversight, academic cooperation, shared resources, and student-centred educational objectives. However, each institution remains legally and academically distinct and operates under its own institutional framework, legal status, regulatory position, quality assurance arrangements, and programme approval structure.
The recognition, accreditation, licensing, approval, membership, certification, or regulatory status of one institution within the Group should not be interpreted as automatically extending to any other institution unless expressly stated in the official documentation of the relevant competent authority, awarding institution, regulator, or recognised approval body.
The Group includes, among others, the European Institute of Management and Technology, Switzerland; Euro American Institute, Malta; London School of Management and Technology, United Kingdom; Birchwood University, USA; and other sister institutions, academic initiatives, education support entities, and partner institutions associated with the wider Euro American educational framework.
The institutions within the Group may share a common vision, common educational values, group-level strategic oversight, academic cooperation, shared resources, and student-centred educational objectives. However, each institution remains legally and academically distinct and operates under its own institutional framework, legal status, regulatory position, quality assurance arrangements, and programme approval structure.
The recognition, accreditation, licensing, approval, membership, certification, or regulatory status of one institution within the Group should not be interpreted as automatically extending to any other institution unless expressly stated in the official documentation of the relevant competent authority, awarding institution, regulator, or recognised approval body.
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EIMT as an Education Support Services Institute
EIMT may act as an Education Support Services Institute for sister institutions within the Euro American Education Group and for selected external partner institutions, wherever such support is formally authorised and permitted under the applicable institutional, academic, contractual, legal, regulatory, and quality assurance framework.
EIMT’s role as an Education Support Services Institute may include the following areas:
For the avoidance of doubt, EIMT’s role as an Education Support Services Institute does not automatically make EIMT the awarding institution, degree-granting institution, accrediting body, licensing authority, regulatory authority, or recognition authority for the programmes of any sister institution or partner institution.
EIMT’s role as an Education Support Services Institute may include the following areas:
- Academic coordination and programme support
- Learner support and student engagement
- Digital learning and learning management system support
- Tutorial assistance and academic mentoring
- Programme information and student communication support
- Administrative facilitation and documentation assistance
- Research coordination and academic activity support
- Faculty coordination and academic resource support
- Continuing professional development support
- Student services support for approved academic pathways
- Quality documentation and institutional process support
- Education support services agreed with the relevant institution
For the avoidance of doubt, EIMT’s role as an Education Support Services Institute does not automatically make EIMT the awarding institution, degree-granting institution, accrediting body, licensing authority, regulatory authority, or recognition authority for the programmes of any sister institution or partner institution.
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Euro American Institute Malta
The Euro American Institute, Malta, is a licensed Higher Education Institution in Malta and is regulated by the Malta Further and Higher Education Authority under Licence Number 2024 032. The MFHEA is Malta’s national competent authority responsible for licensing, accreditation, quality assurance, and oversight of further and higher education providers and programmes in Malta.
The Euro American Institute, Malta, offers approved programmes within the Maltese Qualifications Framework and the European Qualifications Framework, as applicable to the programmes approved under its licence. The programmes, awards, admission requirements, assessment requirements, delivery arrangements, quality assurance procedures, certification processes, and student-related decisions of Euro American Institute, Malta, are governed by the applicable Maltese regulatory framework, MFHEA requirements, approved programme documents, institutional academic regulations, and quality assurance policies.
EIMT may act as an Education Support Services Institute for Euro American Institute, Malta, subject to the approval, academic oversight, quality assurance requirements, institutional regulations, and licence-related requirements applicable to Euro American Institute, Malta.
In this capacity, EIMT may support Euro American Institute, Malta in academic coordination, learner support, digital learning facilitation, student engagement, tutorial support, programme information support, administrative facilitation, documentation assistance, and other authorised support services.
For the avoidance of doubt, EIMT’s role as an Education Support Services Institute does not make EIMT the awarding institution for Euro American Institute, Malta, programmes. The awarding institution for MFHEA-approved programmes remains the Euro American Institute, Malta, subject to its licence conditions, approved programme documents, academic regulations, quality assurance procedures, and applicable Maltese regulatory requirements.
The Euro American Institute, Malta, offers approved programmes within the Maltese Qualifications Framework and the European Qualifications Framework, as applicable to the programmes approved under its licence. The programmes, awards, admission requirements, assessment requirements, delivery arrangements, quality assurance procedures, certification processes, and student-related decisions of Euro American Institute, Malta, are governed by the applicable Maltese regulatory framework, MFHEA requirements, approved programme documents, institutional academic regulations, and quality assurance policies.
EIMT may act as an Education Support Services Institute for Euro American Institute, Malta, subject to the approval, academic oversight, quality assurance requirements, institutional regulations, and licence-related requirements applicable to Euro American Institute, Malta.
In this capacity, EIMT may support Euro American Institute, Malta in academic coordination, learner support, digital learning facilitation, student engagement, tutorial support, programme information support, administrative facilitation, documentation assistance, and other authorised support services.
For the avoidance of doubt, EIMT’s role as an Education Support Services Institute does not make EIMT the awarding institution for Euro American Institute, Malta, programmes. The awarding institution for MFHEA-approved programmes remains the Euro American Institute, Malta, subject to its licence conditions, approved programme documents, academic regulations, quality assurance procedures, and applicable Maltese regulatory requirements.
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Birchwood University, USA
Birchwood University, USA, is a sister institution within the wider Euro American Education Group framework. Birchwood University, USA, is licensed by the Florida Commission for Independent Education, Florida Department of Education, under Licence Number 11386.
EIMT may provide education support services, academic support, learner guidance, administrative facilitation, student engagement, digital learning support, programme information support, tutorial assistance, and other support services for Birchwood University, where such support is formally authorised by Birchwood University and permitted under the applicable institutional and regulatory framework.
Where Birchwood University is the awarding institution or responsible academic institution for a programme, the final responsibility for admission, academic regulations, programme delivery requirements, assessment, progression, certification, transcripts, records, and student related decisions rests with Birchwood University.
EIMT’s support role should not be interpreted as EIMT becoming the awarding institution for Birchwood University programmes or as transferring Birchwood University’s licensing, approval, or regulatory status to EIMT.
EIMT may provide education support services, academic support, learner guidance, administrative facilitation, student engagement, digital learning support, programme information support, tutorial assistance, and other support services for Birchwood University, where such support is formally authorised by Birchwood University and permitted under the applicable institutional and regulatory framework.
Where Birchwood University is the awarding institution or responsible academic institution for a programme, the final responsibility for admission, academic regulations, programme delivery requirements, assessment, progression, certification, transcripts, records, and student related decisions rests with Birchwood University.
EIMT’s support role should not be interpreted as EIMT becoming the awarding institution for Birchwood University programmes or as transferring Birchwood University’s licensing, approval, or regulatory status to EIMT.
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London School of Management and Technology
The London School of Management and Technology, United Kingdom, is a sister institution within the wider Euro American Education Group framework. EIMT may provide education support services, academic coordination support, learner support, digital learning support, administrative facilitation, programme information support, tutorial assistance, and related academic support services for London School of Management and Technology, where such support is formally authorised and permitted under the relevant institutional and regulatory framework.
Where London School of Management and Technology is the relevant institution for a programme, course, certificate, diploma, award, student record, or academic process, the final academic, administrative, and certification responsibility remains with London School of Management and Technology unless official documentation expressly provides otherwise.
EIMT’s support services do not create automatic recognition, credit transfer, admission, progression, award, professional licensing, employment acceptance, immigration acceptance, or further study acceptance in any country. Students must refer to the official programme documents, admission requirements, academic regulations, and student agreement of the relevant institution.
Where London School of Management and Technology is the relevant institution for a programme, course, certificate, diploma, award, student record, or academic process, the final academic, administrative, and certification responsibility remains with London School of Management and Technology unless official documentation expressly provides otherwise.
EIMT’s support services do not create automatic recognition, credit transfer, admission, progression, award, professional licensing, employment acceptance, immigration acceptance, or further study acceptance in any country. Students must refer to the official programme documents, admission requirements, academic regulations, and student agreement of the relevant institution.
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Education Support Services for External Partner Institutions
In addition to its role within the Euro American Education Group, EIMT may act as an Education Support Services Institute, academic support centre, learner support centre, or education facilitation partner for selected external partner colleges, institutes, universities, awarding bodies, professional organisations, and academic institutions that are not part of the Euro American Education Group.
Such relationships may include academic cooperation, learner support, digital learning support, administrative facilitation, student engagement, programme information support, faculty coordination, research support, continuing professional development support, executive education support, articulation support, or other agreed education support services.
Any such relationship is subject to formal agreement, institutional approval, academic governance, legal requirements, quality assurance procedures, and the regulatory framework applicable to the relevant partner institution.
EIMT does not claim that its support services create automatic recognition, equivalence, credit transfer, admission, progression, graduation, professional licensing, immigration acceptance, employment acceptance, or further study acceptance in any country.
Students, applicants, agents, partners, and stakeholders should always refer to the official documentation of the relevant awarding institution or partner institution before making academic, professional, immigration, or financial decisions.
Such relationships may include academic cooperation, learner support, digital learning support, administrative facilitation, student engagement, programme information support, faculty coordination, research support, continuing professional development support, executive education support, articulation support, or other agreed education support services.
Any such relationship is subject to formal agreement, institutional approval, academic governance, legal requirements, quality assurance procedures, and the regulatory framework applicable to the relevant partner institution.
EIMT does not claim that its support services create automatic recognition, equivalence, credit transfer, admission, progression, graduation, professional licensing, immigration acceptance, employment acceptance, or further study acceptance in any country.
Students, applicants, agents, partners, and stakeholders should always refer to the official documentation of the relevant awarding institution or partner institution before making academic, professional, immigration, or financial decisions.
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Academic Cooperation, Progression and Pathways
EIMT may cooperate with sister institutions and partner institutions in areas such as academic development, learner support, credit transfer, recognition of prior learning, progression pathways, faculty engagement, research activities, continuing professional development, executive education, and international student support.
Where available, students may explore academic pathway opportunities, progression arrangements, credit transfer possibilities, recognition of prior learning, articulation routes, dual award possibilities, joint academic initiatives, or further study routes with sister institutions and partner institutions.
Such opportunities are not automatic. They depend on the eligibility of the student, the academic regulations of the relevant institution, the approved programme documents, the applicable quality assurance requirements, the admission criteria of the receiving institution, and any regulatory requirements that may apply.
The final decision regarding admission, exemption, credit recognition, transfer, progression, assessment, award, certification, or graduation shall rest with the relevant awarding institution or receiving institution.
No statement on this website should be read as creating an automatic right to admission, exemption, credit transfer, award, dual degree, joint award, progression, graduation, recognition, professional licensing, employment acceptance, immigration acceptance, or further study acceptance by any sister institution, partner institution, regulatory authority, recognition authority, employer, professional body, or external agency.
Where available, students may explore academic pathway opportunities, progression arrangements, credit transfer possibilities, recognition of prior learning, articulation routes, dual award possibilities, joint academic initiatives, or further study routes with sister institutions and partner institutions.
Such opportunities are not automatic. They depend on the eligibility of the student, the academic regulations of the relevant institution, the approved programme documents, the applicable quality assurance requirements, the admission criteria of the receiving institution, and any regulatory requirements that may apply.
The final decision regarding admission, exemption, credit recognition, transfer, progression, assessment, award, certification, or graduation shall rest with the relevant awarding institution or receiving institution.
No statement on this website should be read as creating an automatic right to admission, exemption, credit transfer, award, dual degree, joint award, progression, graduation, recognition, professional licensing, employment acceptance, immigration acceptance, or further study acceptance by any sister institution, partner institution, regulatory authority, recognition authority, employer, professional body, or external agency.
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European Higher Education Area, MQF, EQF and ECTS
The European Higher Education Area and the Bologna Process provide important reference frameworks for higher education transparency, comparability, mobility, and quality assurance in Europe. The European Qualifications Framework and national qualifications frameworks, including the Maltese Qualifications Framework, provide level based reference systems for qualifications across participating jurisdictions.
Where a programme is approved by Euro American Institute, Malta under the Maltese regulatory framework, the relevant MQF and EQF level, ECTS value, learning outcomes, assessment structure, award title, admission requirements, and certification process are determined by the approved programme documentation and applicable MFHEA requirements.
EIMT recognises the importance of European educational frameworks and aligns its academic development, quality culture, international cooperation, and learner support activities with principles of transparency, learning outcomes, academic integrity, student mobility, and quality enhancement.
However, such alignment should not be understood as a substitute for formal statutory accreditation, licensing, programme approval, or degree awarding authority in any jurisdiction.
Where a programme is approved by Euro American Institute, Malta under the Maltese regulatory framework, the relevant MQF and EQF level, ECTS value, learning outcomes, assessment structure, award title, admission requirements, and certification process are determined by the approved programme documentation and applicable MFHEA requirements.
EIMT recognises the importance of European educational frameworks and aligns its academic development, quality culture, international cooperation, and learner support activities with principles of transparency, learning outcomes, academic integrity, student mobility, and quality enhancement.
However, such alignment should not be understood as a substitute for formal statutory accreditation, licensing, programme approval, or degree awarding authority in any jurisdiction.
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Recognition of Qualifications
The recognition of any qualification is normally determined by the competent recognition authority, professional body, employer, education institution, government department, immigration authority, credential evaluation agency, licensing body, or receiving institution in the relevant country.
Recognition decisions may depend on several factors, including the awarding institution, legal status of the institution, programme approval status, level, credits, mode of study, admission route, assessment structure, professional requirements, local law, regulatory requirements, and the policies of the receiving authority.
EIMT does not guarantee automatic recognition, equivalence, professional licensing, employment acceptance, immigration acceptance, public sector acceptance, or further study acceptance in any specific country or by any specific authority.
Students who require a qualification for employment, professional licensing, immigration, public sector service, regulated professions, further study, or official recognition in a specific country should verify acceptance with the relevant authority before enrolling.
Recognition decisions may depend on several factors, including the awarding institution, legal status of the institution, programme approval status, level, credits, mode of study, admission route, assessment structure, professional requirements, local law, regulatory requirements, and the policies of the receiving authority.
EIMT does not guarantee automatic recognition, equivalence, professional licensing, employment acceptance, immigration acceptance, public sector acceptance, or further study acceptance in any specific country or by any specific authority.
Students who require a qualification for employment, professional licensing, immigration, public sector service, regulated professions, further study, or official recognition in a specific country should verify acceptance with the relevant authority before enrolling.
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