The QA Department's role is to develop and maintain BIBF's quality framework and to support teaching Centres in their delivery of high quality education and training. The Department works to develop awareness and assist implementation of explicit BIBF policies and international good practice by all faculty, staff and management.

BIBF works within an Academic Infrastructure (AI) formulated by the QA department, which is a set of internationally–accepted benchmarks that provides all Centres with reference points for setting, describing and assuring quality and standards for their programmes. The Academic Infrastructure is composed of four ‘pillars’ – Code of Practice (COP), Frameworks for Higher Education Qualifications (FHEQ), Subject Benchmark Statements and Programme Specifications.

BIBF uses a peer review process where teams of academics/professionals conduct reviews of BIBF programmes. Apart from BIBF management and senior faculty members, select members are drawn from Bahrain’s financial services industry. Several committees and boards have been formed with external and student representation to create a framework that is fair, transparent and representative of the various stakeholders of BIBF.

All programmes are monitored through an annual academic review process at course/subject level