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Established | 1973 |
Type | Private business school |
President | Diego del Alcázar |
Dean | Santiago Iñiguez |
Students | 7,800 |
Location | Madrid, Spain |
Campus | Urban |
Website | Ie.edu/business |
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IE Business School is an independent, non-profit business school founded in 1973 by Diego del Alcázar. The School runs master's degree programs, executive master's degrees, executive education programs, and Ph.D. and DBA programs. Approximately 7,800 students from 88 countries undertake degree programs at IE each year. There are approximately 5,600 annual participants in the school's executive education programs.
In 2008, 48.5% of the professors were of non-Spanish origin, and there were 81 nationalities on campus.[citation needed]
Top recruiters include: Accenture, Adecco, Amadeus, Banco Santander, Banesto, BBVA, Chrysler, Daimler AG, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Ernst & Young, Ford, Google, Heineken, Indra Sistemas, Johnson & Johnson, KPMG, L'Oreal, Landwell, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, Pfizer, Siemens and Telefónica.[citation needed]
The School has offices in 22 countries and approximately 40,000 alumni residing in 102 countries.[citation needed]
The IE Business School campus is in the center of Madrid.
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IE Business School has MBA student exchange programs with 53 international universities. The School is one of the founding members of SUMAQ, a network comprising business schools in Spain and Latin America. IE has an agreement with Northwestern University School of Law,[citation needed] with whom it runs a Master of Laws, and the Fletcher School at Tufts University,[citation needed] with whom it runs a dual degree in the fields of business management and international relations. The school also has an agreement with University of Chicago Graduate School of Business[citation needed] to run the Global Senior Management Program (GSMP).
The School has an agreement with Babson College[citation needed] to run joint executive education programs in the field of entrepreneurship, and partners with the Wharton School in the Global Consultancy Program.[citation needed]
IE Business School has a dual degree option in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[citation needed]
IE is currently developing research and teaching opportunities with Brown University,[citation needed].
IE runs the ICEVED-International Center for Entrepreneurship and Ventures Development (http://www.iceved.com), a portal for member schools, investors and entrepreneurs.
IE is the Spanish arm of the GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) Report, which studies the relationship between levels of innovation, the creation of new businesses and economic growth worldwide.
The School's Venture-Lab (V-lab) is a support framework for students' business projects.
Business plan development is a core component of all master degree programs.
25% of IE MBA graduates set up their own companies.
IE's full-time MBA runs for 13 months, from either November or April to December or May, respectively, of the following year. The IMBA 2008 intake comprised 91.5% international students and 68 nationalities.[citation needed]
The program is divided into five modules and a pre-program covering quantitative methods and financial accounting.
The International MBA Program has a Spanish version and an English version with electives in English or Spanish.
The Global MBA at IE is an online program that runs for 15 months. Participants also attend blended sessions or community integration events in Shanghai, New York, London or Madrid, among other cities. The English version of the program (September 2009 intake) has 65 students comprising 34 nationalities.
The IE International Executive MBA program is a thirteen-month program run in English. It is based on a blended format combining in-person sessions in Madrid and Shanghai with periods of online learning and team collaboration. The average age of program participants is 36 and average number of countries of origin is 26.[citation needed]
IE Master in Management Programs comprise:International Management, Marketing Management, Telecom & Digital Business and Biotechnology Management. In 2007, the aggregate class profile of these programs comprised 38 nationalities, with an average age of 23 years and an average of 2 years' of professional experience. 49% of the students were women. The different Master in Management Programs include periods abroad in Shanghai, London and Silicon Valley. IE Master in Management Programs partners are Accenture (global), Grupo Telecinco (marketing), Cisco, Nokia, and Telefónica (telecom & digital).[citation needed]
Approximately 5,600 participants attend open and in-company programs at IE Business School each year.
The English edition of the Advanced Management Program (AMP) was created in 2003, and the Global Senior Management Program (GSMP) in 2004. The GSMP is a joint venture with the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
IE is accredited by the three leading accreditation entities for business education: AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA.[1][2] [3]
IE Business School is situated in Madrid's financial district. The IE campus currently occupies a total surface area of some 23,700m2 (including garage space). This includes 43 lecture halls with an average capacity of 50 students each, 5 computer rooms, 73 breakout rooms (with an average capacity of 10 students per room), a main auditorium ("Aula Magna"), and the IE library. The lecture halls and breakout rooms are not all centralized in one building. They are mostly spread across different parts of Calle Maria de Molina (between metro stations Gregorio Marañón and Avenida de America). The main building lies at the junction of Calle Serrano and Calle Maria de Molina.
The Media Campus is IE Higher Education's tube site, where media items are uploaded for viewing by members of the IE community.
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