ESADE

ESADE

The Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ESADE) is a college and graduate school 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.

ESADE Business School is one of the best business schools in the world, according to numerous rankings. In 2006 and 2007 ESADE was listed as the world’s best business school by The Wall Street Journal. The Financial Times (FT) ranking of the best European business schools ranks the school 7th in 2011. On top of that ESADE Business School is ranked 13th world-wide in the eduniversal ranking. As one of 57 business schools world-wide ESADE has been awarded the Triple accreditation by EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA.

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. 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.