Solvay Business School

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The Solvay Business School (SBS) is a management school accredited by the European Quality Improvement System and Association of MBAs, and is part of the Brussels University, in Belgium. It was founded in 1903 by Ernest Solvay as the Solvay School of Commerce. In 2003, it was re-named the Solvay Business School. More than 2,000 students attend some thirty programmes at the School today, including a Bachelor 's Degree in Management Sciences and a Master of Science in Management, the Solvay MBA and more than thirty Executive Education programmes.

Since 1990, the Solvay Business School has developed a network of more than 50 partners in 17 countries, with whom some 160 student exchanges are organised each year. The Solvay Business School is the only school in Belgium to oblige its students to undertake a six-month exchange programme in a university abroad. Such exchanges take place principally in Europe, within the framework of the SOCRATES and ERASMUS programmes, but also in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, India, Japan, Thailand and Singapore.

The Union of Solvay Business School Alumni(SBS Alumni) is an association that represents all those men and women who have graduated from the Solvay Business School or one of its satellite institutions. The considerable recent expansion of the SBS alumni thus also reflects the SBS’s own success. Within the particular context of Belgium, a country marked in the past by religious and ideological rifts, alumni associations play an extremely important role, especially for the universities.

Its current president is Philippe Biltiau.

[edit] Rankings

The SBS was ranked

13th in Europe for its Master in Management by the Financial Times Masters in Management European Ranking 2005 and 3rd in finance [1]
1st in Belgium and 26th in Europe by the Times Global European Business School ranking
20th in Europe and 90th in the world for its MBA [2]