The institution has received accreditation from the Council on Higher Education (CHE) in South Africa and the Association of MBAs (AMBA) internationally.

[2] In 2012, the GIBS DBA became the first South African doctoral program in business to receive international accreditation from AMBA.

Sir Donald Gordon (24 June 1930 – 21 November 2019) was a South African businessman and philanthropist.

He was educated at King Edward VII School in Johannesburg[11] before doing his articles to be a Chartered Accountant at the firm Kessel Feinstein (now Grant Thornton).

Past and present faculty members include Gill Marcus (ninth Governor of the South African Reserve Bank) and Nick Binedell.