| ESADE | |
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| Established | 1958 |
| Type | Private |
| Dean | Alfons Sauquet (ESADE Business School), Pedro Mirosa (ESADE Law School) |
| Director | Eugènia Bieto Caubet |
| Admin. staff | 1,215[1] |
| Students | 8,527 (Business & Law)[1] |
| Location | Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | http://www.esade.edu/ |
The Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ESADE) is a college associated with the Ramon Llull University located in Barcelona, Spain. ESADE is composed of three departments; the ESADE Business School, the ESADE Executive Language Center and the ESADE Law School. ESADE follows an applied teaching methodology, which is based on the development of professional and management skills and abilities. ESADE has campuses in Barcelona Pedralbes, Barcelona Sant Cugat, Madrid, and Buenos Aires.
As of summer 2008, ESADE had over 11,000 students (University Programmes: 3,073, Business School: 5,454, Executive Language Center: 3,190) and had collaboration agreements with over 100 universities worldwide.[1] Most notably, ESADE has formed a strategic alliance with the Ramon Llull University in its undergraduate programmes in Law and Business. In 2005, ESADE Creapolis, the world's first technology park based on open innovation, was founded and now houses some 1200 professionals from more than 50 organisations.[2]
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The ESADE project was conceived in the spring of 1954 by a group of Spanish professionals and entrepreneurs who later founded the university. The school signed an agreement with the Jesuits (Societas Iesu) in October 1958 and started offering its first academic programs in a small building in the district of Sant Gervasi, Barcelona.
Since then, ESADE has steadily grown in size and the range of courses has led to the extension of its installations to create a campus which, if the premises in both Madrid[3] and Barcelona[4] are included, currently covers an area of 30,000m2. A new executive centre was opened in 2003 in Buenos Aires, Argentina[5]: the Foundation for Business and Social Development. ESADE has also inaugurated the ESADE Creapolis,[6] a new campus situated in Sant Cugat del Vallès.
In 1958, ESADE was ultimately founded. Two years later, in 1960, executive education programmes were introduced; and in 1964, the college's MBA programme was established. A year later, in 1965, ESADE's Barcelona campus (Av. Pedralbes) opened (Building I), as well as the Executive Language Centre.
In 1993, ESADE Law school opened, and in 2000, the college's Madrid (Chamartin) campus opened. Three years later, in 2003, a campus was opened in Buenos Aires opened; and in 2009, ESADE opened a new campus in Sant Cugat (Barcelona).[7]
ESADE has four campuses: Barcelona Pedralbes, Barcelona Sant Cugat, Madrid, and Buenos Aires.
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| Business School | 1958 |
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| Law School | 1992 |
ESADE is a college associated with the Ramon Llull University located in Barcelona, Spain. ESADE is composed of three departments; the ESADE Business School, the ESADE Executive Language Center and the ESADE Law School.
ESADE Career Services is a dedicated department which provides career advisory and guidance services to ESADE students and alumni and manages the worldwide employer network of ESADE. Every year the ESADE Career Services manages 2.500 job offerings from 1.200 prestigious international organisations.[8] The work of the ESADE Career Services has been consistently recognised by internationally renowned organisations: In 2006 the ESADE Full-time MBA was ranked 1st in The Wall Street Journal’s Recruiter’s Scorecard,[9] and in 2007, Financial Times ranked the ESADE MSc in Management programme 1st in terms of placement success.[10]
ESADE Creapolis is a joint venture between ESADE, a consortium of Spanish financial institutions, local government institutions and business associations. The organisation manages a technology and innovation park on the ESADE campus in Barcelona. Between 2005 and 2008 ESADE Creapolis invested €70 Million in its facilities in Sant Cugat.[11] As of 2009, the park houses more than 50 organisations with more than 1200 professionals.[12] ESADE Creapolis acts as a knowledge broker, bringing together the ideas of the participating organisations and the ESADE research community. The methodology for knowledge creation and transfer is based on the principles of Open Innovation.[13]
A community of 42,000 alumni of 105 different nationalities have studied at ESADE as of 2010. They live in 114 different countries, with many of them holding posts of responsibility in an array of companies and organizations. Many alumni work in fields such as investment banking, marketing, operations, finance, and general management. Up to 15 countries around the world are home to over 100 ESADE alumni. The list is headed by Spain and followed by the US, France, Germany, Canada, Italy, Chile, Norway, Mexico, Switzerland, Belgium, the UK, Andorra, the Netherlands, Brazil, Sweden and Argentina.[14]
ESADE has had an official alumni association since 1989. It's objectives include contributing to the improvement of alumni professional skills, favouring social relationships and cooperation among members, and orienting members' career development. The ESADE alumni association is self-governing and has 15,400 members as of 2010, with 32 international chapters and more than 20 business/industry clubs.