UBI BUSINESS SCHOOL received the ‘Highly Commended’ Award in two categories at the AMBA & BGA Excellence Awards 2026:
- Best Lifelong Learning for the Professional Postgraduate Certificates
- Best Partnership, with Publicis, for the development of Alexandria, the AI platform for learning
UBI BUSINESS SCHOOL is proud to announce that, following nominations in four categories at the AMBA & BGA Excellence Awards 2026, the School received the ‘Highly Commended’ Award in two: Best Lifelong Learning Initiative and Best Business School Partnership.
These honours reflect UBI’s sustained focus on quality, innovation, professional orientation, and impact within global business education. In particular, the School’s HyFlex learning model, our new Professional Certificates , and its strategic collaboration with Publicis Commerce to develop Alexandria, UBI’s advanced AI learning platform.
In addition to these achievements, UBI BUSINESS SCHOOL was also shortlisted for Best Digital Transformation and BGA Student of the Year (2026).
Results and Recognitions
- Highly Commended – Best Lifelong Learning Initiative
For UBI’s HyFlex delivery and professional postgraduate certificates, enabling MBA specialisations and upskilling of individuals, providing access to British-accredited education for working professionals. This continues the recognition of high quality by the EFMD EOCCS certification achieved in 2025, confirming the quality and consistency of our virtual/online education. - Highly Commended – Best Business School Partnership
Honouring UBI’s collaboration with Publicis Commerce, resulting in “Alexandria” , UBI’s AI learning platform, designed to support personalised learning progress while aligning with academic standards and forward-looking industry practice. Here we are doing what companies asked us, to train their future employees to use AI in a productive and responsible way. The School’s graduates are AI-ready, they learn how the technology strengthen/creates existing/new business models, and also how it can create new income streams. - Shortlisted – Best Digital Transformation
This shortlisting recognises UBI’s digital strategy, centred on access, inclusion and educational impact. Through HyFlex, students at our Brussels campus, our associated campus in Madrid, and online in more than 40 countries learn together in real time, supported by purpose-built hybrid classrooms and digital learning systems. - Shortlisted – BGA Student of the Year
Facundo Biffi represents UBI BUSINESS SCHOOL in the individual awards. A senior government official in Mendoza, he applies MBA learning directly to public service—strengthening public institutions, building international academic partnerships, and widening access to higher education for disadvantaged communities through UBI’s HyFlex delivery.
“Being nominated in four categories and achieving ‘Highly Commended’ in two—precisely those that embody our distinctive education model—confirms that we are building for the future,”
– said Gaston Fornes, Dean UBI Business School.
“With HyFlex and specialisations via our Professional Postgraduate Certificate British degrees, we make lifelong learning flexible, rigorous and globally accessible. And with Alexandria, developed with Publicis Commerce, we are shaping a Human-firstAI learning ecosystem where human insight and responsible AI accelerate impact for our students, partners, and communities.”
UBI BUSINESS SCHOOL also warmly congratulates the winners and applauds all finalists whose achievements continue to elevate global business education.
