The Positive Impact Rating
In a time of increasing societal and environmental challenges, it is crucial for business schools to cultivate responsible leaders and ensure positive, measurable outcomes.
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Discover PIR: the most trusted and relevant rating used by over 100 business schools worldwide to measure and enhance their societal impact.
The PIR uses a unique 5-level system to help schools benchmark their performance and accelerate their progress in sustainability and social responsibility.
Enhance your AACSB, EQUIS and PRME accreditation with PIR
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Empower
future's leaders
How PIR Works
Your path to Societal Impact
PIR is a student and faculty driven assessment that helps business schools worldwide evaluate their commitment to sustainability and ethical practices.
Developed in collaboration with global NGOs like WWF, Oxfam, UN Global Compact, and international student associations, PIR is designed to transform business education by cultivating responsible leaders.
Evaluate
your
Impact
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Strengthen your Reporting
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Support your change Process
PIR includes the PRME SIP Report Add-On, AACSB compatible questions, EQUIS Report Add-on and options for school-specific questions, enabling institutions to measure their societal impact and align with responsible management principles Many schools use PIR for accreditation and reporting on their societal impact.
PIR in numbers
Why PIR
Discover how PIR can elevate your business school
SHOWCASE
YOUR SCHOOL
We are the only global rating highlighting business schools focused on societal purpose.
ADD EVIDENCE TO YOUR ACCREDITATION REPORT
Most schools use our data to report their progress to AACSB, EQUIS, and PRME.
DRIVE
INTERNAL CHANGE
Students' feedback drives ongoing improvements in your school's societal impact.
COMPARE
YOUR PROGRESS
Our online PIR Dashboard provides downloadable reports and visualized data.
WE CARE AND
PROTECT YOU
We only publish schools with 3, 4, or 5 stars and offer guidance for improvement.
JOIN A GLOBAL
COMMUNITY
Connect globally through PIR-hosted webinars and events to share best practices.
Customizing your PIR
All the features you can opt-in for PIR 2025 edition
AACSB
Relevant Questions
Use four pre-defined questions on your school’s focal topic.
EQUIS Additional Report
Add another dimension to your EQUIS Self-Assessment Report.
PRME
SIP
Report
Request your results to be given in the format PRME requires for reporting.
School
Specific Questions
Dive more deeply into a topic of your choice, with four customizable questions.
Faculty
Survey
Addition
Add the Faculty as a second stakeholder for a completely new dimension.
Multiple
Language
Addition
Choose French, Spanish or German to make your survey more accessible.
Reviews
Our Partner schools believe in PIR
"Before we started with the PIR we had no other means to get insight from our students, as we have no student organizations. And when we learned what our students had to say about what we were doing well and what we could improve, it was very revealing for us. This has really helped us to focus our attention."
Prof. Snehal Shah
Associate Dean, Academics & Research, SP Jain IMR, India
102 business schools
across 34 nations worldwide are rated
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Are you a PRME signatory?
Thanks to a collaboration between PIR and PRME, all schools that are PRME signatories can now receive a 10% discount on a three-year PIR subscription starting this year!
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