IE Business School

IE Business School is a graduate school located in Madrid, Spain. It was founded in 1973 under the name Instituto de Empresa.

According to Financial Times IE has one of the most competitive MBA programs in the world offering both full-time and executive MBA programs. Financial Times ranked the MBA program 8th worldwide in 2012 and Forbes ranked the MBA program 3rd worldwide in 2011 in the ranking of non-US schools. The Executive MBA program was ranked 1st worldwide by The Economist in 2010, 4th worldwide by America Economia in 2011, and 1st in Europe by The Wall Street Journal in 2010. Bloomberg BusinessWeek ranked IE 3rd worldwide in their non-US school ranking in 2010. The Master in Finance program offered by the school is one of the most competitive worldwide, and it was ranked No. 2 globally by the Financial Times 2012 Masters in Finance (Pre-experience) ranking.

IE Business School is among only 57 institutions worldwide (i.e. less than 1% of business schools globally) to be granted the prestigious Triple accreditation: EQUIS by the EFMD, AMBA and the AACSB. It is also the first European institution to form part of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society. The School runs master's degree programs, executive master's degrees, executive education programs, PhD and DBA programs. Approximately 1,900 students from 88 countries undertake degree programs at IE each year. There are approximately 5,600 annual participants in the school's executive education programs. In 2008, 48.5% of the professors were of non-Spanish origin, and there were 81 nationalities on campus. The School has offices in 22 countries and approximately 40,000 alumni residing in 102 countries.