CEU Business School

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The CEU Business School is part of the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. It was founded in 1989 (under the name International Management Center, or IMC) by George Soros and a number of business, academic and political leaders.

The School offers a full-time, part-time and executive MBA, as well as an MSc in IT Management. The School is very international, recruiting students from all over Central and Eastern Europe. Many students from the US and Western Europe attend as well. MBA students at the school may also study on exchange in western Europe and North America.

In 2001 the IMC become part of Central European University, while retaining a semi-independent status, and was renamed CEU Business School. It now runs a one-year full time MBA program as well as a weekend executive MBA program, a Masters of Science in Information Technology program, the joint CEU-Boconni undergraduate program, and several smaller programs.

Until 2002, all degrees were granted jointly by IMC and its Western partner universities which included the University of Pittsburgh and Tulane, Emory, Manchester, Vanderbilt and York Universities. From 1996–2002 the IMC granted its MBA degree exclusively with the Weatherhead School of Management of Case Western Reserve University.

Since 2005, the School has offered undergraduate degrees in business administration. This is offered in cooperation with SDA Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Students spend their first two years at CEU in Budapest and their final two years at SDA Bocconi in Milan. Both the American BBA and the Italian Laureate are awarded at the end of the studies.