ESADE
| Escola Superior d'Administració i Direcció d'Empreses | |
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| Motto | Inspiring Futures |
|---|---|
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1958 |
| Dean |
Alfons Sauquet (ESADE Business School) Eduardo Berché(ESADE Law School ) |
| Director | Eugènia Bieto Caubet |
Academic staff | 1,117 [1] |
Administrative staff | 377 [1] |
| Students | 8,452 (Business & Law)[1] |
| Location | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | ESADE |
The Escola Superior d'Administració i Direcció d'Empreses (ESADE) is a Jesuit educational institution within the Ramon Llull University, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. ESADE runs two schools of the university, ESADE Business School and ESADE Law School, as well as a language center, the ESADE Executive Language Center.
ESADE follows an applied teaching methodology, which is based on the development of professional and management skills with campuses in Barcelona Pedralbes, Barcelona Sant Cugat, Madrid, and Buenos Aires.
ESADE Business School is one of the best business schools in the world, according to numerous rankings. In 2006 and 2007 ESADE was listed as the world’s best business school by The Wall Street Journal.[2] In 2012, the Financial Times (FT) ranking of the best European business schools ranks the school 5th of 80 selected top business schools.[3] On top of that, ESADE Business School is ranked 13th worldwide in the eduniversal ranking.[4] As one of 57 business schools worldwide, ESADE has been awarded the Triple accreditation by EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA.
ESADE has collaboration agreements with over 100 universities worldwide, among them the Wharton School, Cornell Law School, UC Berkeley, Emory University, Georgetown University and Northwestern Kellogg.[1] The school has also formed a strategic alliance with the Ramon Llull University in its undergraduate programmes in Law and Business.
Overview
History
The ESADE project was conceived in the spring of 1954 by a group of Spanish professionals and entrepreneurs who later founded the university. The school signed an agreement with the Jesuits (Societas Iesu) in October 1958 and started offering its first academic programs in a small building in the district of Sant Gervasi, Barcelona.[5]
In 1958, ESADE was ultimately founded. Two years later, in 1960, executive education programmes were introduced. In 1964 the college's MBA programme was established. A year later, in 1965, ESADE's Barcelona campus (Av. Pedralbes) opened (Building I), as well as the Executive Language Centre. In 1993, ESADE Law School opened. In 2001, the school inaugurated its campus in Madrid (Chamartín), and two years later its campus in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Both are primarily used for executive education. In 2009 ESADE opened a new campus in Sant Cugat (Barcelona) as well as ESADE Creapolis, a technology park based on open innovation and situated on the new Sant Cugat campus.[5]
Today ESADE's campuses, if the premises in both Madrid and Barcelona are included, cover an area of 30,000m2.
Rankings
ESADE offers a variety of degrees, including bachelor's degrees in Law and Business, Master Programmes in Management (MSc), MBAs, EMBAs, as well as Executive Language Education.
The Master's in International Management has been ranked 7th worldwide by the Financial Times in 2012,[6] the Master's in Finance 5th worldwide in 2013.[7]
The ESADE MBA has been ranked 16th worldwide by the magazine The Economist in 2013 and 21st worldwide by the Financial Times in 2012.[8][9] The magazine Business Week currently ranks the ESADE MBA 4th among all non-U.S. MBA programmes.[10]
The Financial Times ranks ESADE's Customized Executive Education Programmes 4th in the world in 2013.[11]
ESADE Business School is ranked 5th out of 80 selected top business schools in the Financial Times' (FT) ranking of 2012.[3]
ESADE Creapolis
ESADE Creapolis is a joint venture between ESADE, a consortium of Spanish financial institutions, local government institutions and business associations. The organisation manages a technology and innovation park on the ESADE campus in Sant Cugat, Barcelona.
It is an open innovation center promoted by ESADE business school, where companies, students, the academic community and scientists come together with the aim of promoting both creativity and innovation. ESADE Creapolis also has a Business Incubator, a place where new business ideas and market opportunities are given all necessary support to create new companies and to accelerate them.
Between 2005 and 2008 ESADE Creapolis invested €70 Million in its facilities in Sant Cugat[12] and has since become home to various start-ups.
ESADE Creapolis acts as a knowledge broker, bringing together the ideas of the participating organisations and the ESADE research community. The methodology for knowledge creation and transfer is based on the principles of Open Innovation.[13]
Alumni
ESADE's counts over 48,000 alumni of 105 different nationalities. They live in 115 different countries, with many of them holding posts of responsibility in an array of companies and organizations.[14] The objectives of ESADE's official alumni association include contributing to the improvement of alumni professional skills, favouring social relationships and cooperation among members, and orienting members' career development.
The ESADE alumni association is self-governing, with 33 international chapters and 20 functional/sector-specific clubs. Each of the chapters and the clubs is organized by a board of ESADE alumni in the respective country or sector.[14] In 2014 celebrated its 25th anniversary and awards Martin Winterkorn, chairman of Volkswagen automobile group.[15] Coordinates: 41°23′N 2°11′E / 41.383°N 2.183°E
References
- 1 2 3 4 "ESADE Annual Report" (PDF). ESADE. Retrieved July 2013. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ Wall Street Journal, business school ranking
- 1 2 Financial Times European business school ranking
- ↑ Eduniversal ranking
- 1 2 "ESADE History". ESADE. Retrieved July 2013. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ Financial Times Master in Management Ranking
- ↑ Financial Times pre-experience ranking Master in Finance
- ↑ "Full Time MBA Ranking". The Economist. 2013.
- ↑ Financial Times MBA Ranking
- ↑ Ranking of Bloomberg Businessweek
- ↑ Financial Times Customized Executive Education Ranking
- ↑ "ESADE Creapolis invests €70 Million in Sant Cugat del Vallès". 2005-10-27. Retrieved July 2013. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "ESADE Creapolis Methdology". ESADE Creapolis. Retrieved July 2013. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - 1 2 ESADE Alumni
- ↑ "Esade Alumni premia al presidente del grupo Volkswagen por su trayectoria". La Vanguardia. 2014-05-14.
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