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| Motto | Do Good. Do Better. |
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| Type | Private university |
| Established | 1958 |
| Dean | Eduardo Berché, Josep Franch |
| Director | Koldo Echebarría |
| Students | 7674[1] |
| Address | Av. Pedralbes, 60-62 ,08034Barcelona ,,41°23′29″N2°06′42″E / 41.3914°N 2.1118°E /41.3914; 2.1118 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | http://www.esade.edu/ |
ESADE Business School is a privategraduate-levelbusiness school located inBarcelona,Spain. It is part ofESADE (Catalan:Escola Superior d'Administració i Direcció d'Empreses, Spanish:Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas) and is associated withRamon Llull University. ESADE has been awarded thetriple accreditation byEQUIS,AACSB andAMBA, and is ranked among the world's top business schools and law school programs by theFinancial Times,The Economist,Forbes,QS World University Rankings and more.[2]
The ESADE project was conceived in the spring of 1954 by a group of Spanish professionals and entrepreneurs during the period of isolation or autarchy initiated by the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Linked from the beginning to the Society of Jesus, they saw the need to professionalize the training of businessmen.[3]
The school signed an agreement with theJesuits (Societas Iesu) in October 1958 and started offering its first academic programs in a small building in the district ofSant Gervasi, Barcelona.[4] In 1958, ESADE was ultimately founded. Two years later, in 1960, executive education programmes were introduced as the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. In 1964 the college'sMBA programme was established. A year later, in 1965, ESADE's Barcelona campus (Av. Pedralbes) opened (Building I). In 2001, the school inaugurated its campus inMadrid (Chamartín), and two years later its campus inBuenos Aires,Argentina. Both are primarily used for Executive Education. In 2009 ESADE opened a new campus in Sant Cugat (Barcelona) as well asESADE Creapolis, atechnology park based onopen innovation and situated on the new Sant Cugat campus.[4] In 2014, it ranked fourth in the international business school ranking compiled by the Financial Times.[5]
ESADE Business School offers a range ofundergraduate andgraduate degrees, as well as adoctoral program.
The ESADE Business School offers an accelerated, customizable full-timeMBA programme. Students can choose among a 12, 15 and 18-month track.[6] The 12-month program is completed with classes from September to September, while the 15- and 18-month programs allow for either summerinternships, exchanges with other MBA programmes worldwide, or both. In the first eight months students are divided into three sections, with whom they complete a significant portion of their studies in a team format. In the remainingterms, classes are completed on anelective basis. Thestudent body is highly international, with 95% international students who represent 48 nationalities.[7]
| Business school rankings | |
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| Europe MBA Rankings | |
| QS (2025)[8] | 6 |
| FT (2025)[9] | 10 |
| Global MBA Rankings | |
| QS (2025)[10] | 13 |
| FT (2025)[11] | 34 |
ESADE Business School offers a range of programmes aimed at executives and experienced professionals. These programs include Executive MBAs, Executive Master Programmes, Open Programmes, and Custom Programmes. The Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) is taught in cooperation with theMcDonough School of Business and theEdmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service atGeorgetown University inWashington D.C. The course follows amodularstructure, withmodules taught in the United States, Spain,Brazil,Argentina, India, and Russia. ESADE also offers an International Executive Master in Marketing & Sales (emms) inpartnership withSDA Bocconi School of Management, Milan (Italy).
The ESADE Business School offers a PhD programme that consists of two parts:
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
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| QS - World University Ranking for Master's in Management[12] | - | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 6th | 6th |
| QS - World University Ranking for Master's in Finance[13] | - | 6th | 7th | 10th | 11th | 14th | 15th |
| QS - World University Ranking for Master's in Business Analytics[14] | - | - | 5th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 12th |
| QS - World University Ranking for Master's in Marketing[15] | - | - | 4th | 7th | 4th | 6th | 6th |
| Financial Times - World University Ranking for Master's in Management[16] | 8th | 11th | 11th | 14th | 16th | 16th | 8th |
| Financial Times - Master's in Finance[17] | 13th | 14th | N.A. | 18th | 15th | 18th | N.A. |
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