History
The Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management was founded in 2008 as a result of the merger of the Department of Economics (founded in 1899) and the Solvay Business School (founded by Ernest Solvay in 1903 under the name of Ecole de Commerce Solvay) of the Université libre de Bruxelles. More than 2,000 students attend some thirty programmes at the School today, including Bachelor 's Degrees in business engineering and economics and Masters (M.S./MSc – Master of Science) in both disciplines, the MBA and more than thirty Executive Education programmes. Its current Dean is Bruno van Pottelsberghe.
The Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management has developed a network of more than 70 partners in 32 countries, with whom some 160 student exchanges are organised each year. The School is the only in Belgium that requires 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, Turkmenistan, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Egypt, Israel, South Africa, India (IIM Ahmedabad), Korea, Japan, Thailand, China, Taiwan and Singapore.
The Solvay Alumni is an association that represents all those men and women who have graduated from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management or one of its satellite institutions. 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.
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