ESADE Business School


ESADE Business School is a private business school located in Barcelona, Spain. It is part of the ESADE and is associated with the Ramon Llull University. ESADE has been awarded the triple accreditation by the EQUIS, AACSB, and AMBA, and is ranked among the world's top business school programs by the Financial Times, The Economist, Forbes, QS World University Rankings, and more.

History

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 Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Linked from the beginning to the Society of Jesus, they saw the need to professionalize the training of businessmen.
The school signed an agreement with the Jesuits in October 1958 and started offering its first academic programmes in a small building in the district of Sant Gervasi, Barcelona. 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 university's MBA programme was established. A year later, in 1965, ESADE's Barcelona campus opened. In 2009, Sant Cugat del Vallès campus was inaugurated. In 2025, the school inaugurated its campus in Madrid.

Programmes

ESADE Business School offers a range of undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as doctoral programmes.

Bachelor's Programmes

  • Bachelor in Business Administration
  • Bachelor in Trasformational Leadership and Social Impact
  • Bachelor in Global Governance, Economics and Legal Order
  • Bachelor in Business and Artificial Intelligence
  • Double Degree in Business Administration & Law
  • Double Degree in Law + Global Governance, Economics & Legal Order
  • Double Degree in BBA & Business and Artificial Intelligence
  • Double Degree in Business Administration + Global Governance, Economics & Legal Order

    MSc Programmes

  • Global Master in International Management
  • Global Master in Finance
  • Master in Sustainability Management
  • Master in Marketing Management
  • Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  • Master in Business Analytics
  • Master in Finance

    Full-Time MBA

The ESADE Business School offers an accelerated, customisable full-time MBA programme. Students can choose between 12, 15 and 18-month tracks. The 12-month programme has classes from September to September of the following year, the 15-monts programme has classes from September to December of the following year and the 18-month programme has classes from September to March of the following year. They allow for either summer internships, exchanges with other MBA programmes worldwide, and 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 remaining terms, classes are completed on an elective basis. The student body is highly international, with 95% international students who represent 48 nationalities.

Executive Education

ESADE Business School offers a range of programmes aimed at executives and experienced professionals. These programmes include Executive MBA, Executive Master Programmes, InOn Programmes, Online Programmes, Open Programmes, and Blended Programmes.

PhD

The ESADE Business School offers a PhD programme aimed at training business school academics. It consists in two parts:
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Notable alumni