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According to the latest Bloomberg Businessweek’s biennial ranking, IE Business School is third among international programs.

IE Business School’s full-time International MBA is a 13 month program taught in both English and Spanish (with bilingual opportunities) and is designed for professionals who average five years work experience and are seeking an intense learning opportunity in a major European capital.  The student body hails from around the world.  This year, the International MBA program includes 87 percent foreign students from 76 countries.  The diverse campus, combined with IE’s innovative and entrepreneurially focused curriculum, results in a truly unique MBA experience that prepares students to become the globally-minded leaders of tomorrow.

The Bloomberg Businessweek ranking further consolidates IE Business School’s position in the field (see the School’s position in other business school rankings here.)

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The Bachelor in Business Administration will comprise two sections run in Madrid and Segovia as from the 2012-2013 academic year.

IE University’s Bachelor in Business Administration will have a section based in Madrid for the coming 2012-2013 academic year in addition to that of Segovia. The Madrid-based option is the latest addition to IE University’s business administration programs, which to date have been run exclusively at the University’s Segovia campus. Both sections will offer a degree program with a markedly international slant and a special focus on entrepreneurship, with the same faculty, program content, and extracurricular activities.

The launch of this new section marks a new development phase for IE University designed to offer new options to students. IE University students can now opt for the Madrid-based campus situated in the city’s financial district, or the historic Segovia campus housed in the Santa Cruz la Real convent built in the 12^thcentury, with 1,100 students from 75 countries.

The Bachelor in Business Administration, recently accredited by international management education accrediting agency AACSB, will be run in both English and Spanish in both Madrid and Segovia. It is an officially recognized degree program with 200 students from 52 countries who receive a solid education oriented to doing business in a global arena.

The differentiating feature of the program is that it combines management education with a solid grounding in humanistic values in an international environment. Students undertake highly diverse activities such as the Social Impact Project internship program, whereby they work with NGOs and Spanish and international institutions on innovative projects focused on social development in different areas of the world.

“IE University’s commitment to a dual campus will benefit future students by providing broader educational options,” said Salvador Carmona, Rector of IE University.

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The mayor of Madrid, Ruiz-Gallardon, signs a collaboration with IE Business School which addresses four key areas: entrepreneurship, economy, innovation and worldwide promotion.

IE Business School is to produce management education tools based on the public administration model of the city of Madrid, including keys to the social and economic transformation achieved by the city in recent years.  The collaboration agreement signed today by Madrid Mayor, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, and President of IE Business School, Diego del Alcázar, also includes a plan for employees of Madrid City Hall’s Tourism City-branding Department to undertake IE programs. Moreover, IE Business School will be providing support in the design and management of the content of a Chair in New Technologies, set to be inaugurated in the near future, as well as providing consulting services for startups in the business incubator run by City Hall, where IE students will be able to place their business startups free of charge.

With this agreement the two institutions, one public, one private, will join forces to promote economic recovery in Spain’s capital. The Mayor commented that “this mutual support has come at a time when it is most needed, and will hinge on four key areas: economic analysis, innovation and technology, tourism, and entrepreneurship.  

Ruiz-Gallardón talked about how both IE Business School and the city of Madrid had evolved since the 1970s, saying that “Economic recovery is possible”. In 1973, the total value of all goods and services produced in the city of Madrid stood at less than 4,000 million Euros and a large part was centered around public administration. Madrid’s metro network covered just 50 kilometers at the time, the city was a full day´s journey from Spain’s coastal regions, and Madrid’s Barajas airport received some 3 million passengers. That year, a group of entrepreneurs, headed by Diego del Alcázar, founded an private business school to provide top-tier postgraduate programs in the field of management education in Spain, which until then had only existed in Barcelona.  

The Mayor continued by saying that today the average per capita income of a citizen of Madrid has multiplied by 16, production stands at more than 120,000 million Euros, and business activity no longer revolves around the public sector, “because we are now Spain’s main business hub.” Gallardon also remarked that the Madrid Metro is six times larger than in 1973 and one of the most extensive and effective underground transport networks in the world. High-speed trains can now reach Malaga or Barcelona in little more than a couple of hours, and Barajas receives 50 million travelers each year.

In much the same way, over the last 37 years IE Business School has gone from being a small business to become a worldwide leader in management education. IE’s first annual intake comprised fewer than a hundred students, whereas now there are almost 8,000 each year, with more than 40,000 alumni living and working in 102 countries around the world. Ruiz-Gallardón rounded off by saying that “the school’s original program is now one of the best one-year MBA programs in the world, according to the Wall Street Journal, as well as the best online MBA program in the world, according to The Economist, or the best Executive MBA in Europe, according to BusinessWeek”.

Mutual support

The Mayor went on to comment how IE enjoys its current position in large part thanks to its location in the unique city of Madrid, which has afforded the School enormous prestige. But he also noted that a substantial part of Madrid’s transformation was thanks to IE. He argued that business schools play a pivotal role in stimulating the economies of the cities in which they are located. They generate employment and wealth, foster social progress and professional development, and work in tandem with public policies from the private sector to attract and create talent, and strengthen the city’s image.

The Mayor declared that these were all very good reasons for establishing closer collaboration that will bring substantial benefits for the city, serving as an engine for growth and knowledge. Said benefits will be the end result of a series of actions based on four key areas:

Economic analysis. IE is interested in using the management model used for the social and economic transformation of the city of Madrid over the last ten years to design new teaching tools for its programs. The Mayor added that “We are proud that the best business school in Spain, which is also one of the best in the world, is using Madrid as a model for public administration”.

Innovation and technology. The agreement will serve as a platform for both parties to work together in this field, and for IE to design and manage the design and content of a Chair in New Technologies, which will be constructed in the Boetticher hanger and launched in the near future.

Tourism and city branding. Employees from the Tourism Department of City Hall will undertake programs run by IE. A prestigious business school like IE plays a key role in showcasing the city to the world, “Which is why Madrid City Hall is going to work together with IE on international campaigns aimed at promoting the school and thereby helping to sell the city”.

Entrepreneurship. Finally, Madrid City Hall will work with IE to promote entrepreneurship in three ways. Firstly by providing support in the drafting of a document about entrepreneurship in Madrid that will form part of the GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) report, a benchmark in comparing levels of entrepreneurial activity around the world. The GEM report normally focuses on countries, but this will be the first year that Spain will provide specific information on a city. Secondly, IE will provide counsel for new businesses in the City Hall start-up incubators, and thirdly, the incubator facilities will be available free of charge to entrepreneurs studying at IE.

Madrid stands for quality of life. The capital is up two positions in the annual ranking of the 25 most liveable cities published by the British magazine Monocle, taking the tenth position. The Urban Quality of Life Index, featured each year in Monocle’s July edition, has become a world standard used to measure the urban parameters that define each of the cities that make it into this prestigious list.

Madrid has jumped up the scale for the third year in a row after taking the 13th and 12th positions in 2008 and 2009 respectively. Of the 25 cities included in the Index, only seven have improved their position in 2010 compared to the previous year, and only three of them stand among the top ten.

By making it into the top ten of the world’s most liveable cities, Madrid now shares a privileged status that only includes three other capitals with over three million inhabitants: Tokyo, Paris and Melbourne. Despite the general Spanish context, the capital is still an appealing place to live in and invest in.

For more information on Madrid, please visit esmadrid.com

… found @ Inside España Newsletter