ESADE
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ESADE (Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas) is a Business and Law School based in Barcelona, Spain.
It began operating as a Business School in 1958 at a time when Spain was just beginning to emerge from autarky and needed a professional business class to run the economy. The Jesuits seized the opportunity, founding ESADE in Barcelona.
The Law School was created in 1992 in order to meet the demands of the professional world: to train lawyers capable of coping with the challenges set by the modern legal profession.
ESADE is currently incorporated to the Ramon Llull University.
ESADE has over 6,000 students among its various training centres. The school offers Executive Education and MBA programs through the Business School, as well as undergraduate, post-graduate, and PhD programs in Business Administration and Law at ESADE University Faculties. Along with some of the best European universities, the Law School created the European Joint Degree in Business Law and is the only faculty in Spain to offer students the opportunity to obtain this degree, furthermore, it is the only Law School in Spain to have a Professional Council made up of representatives from all legal professions and over 30 internationally renowned Law firms.
ESADE provides a wide range of programs catering to the needs of diverse groups and has signed collaboration agreements with over 100 prestigious universities world-wide.
Several business publications consistently rank ESADE as one of the top 10 business schools in Europe. In 2006, ESADE was ranked by The Wall Street Journal as the number one business school internationally, and The Financial Times ranked its Master of Management and its MBA program sixth and eighth in Europe, respectively. Business Week ranks ESADE MBA program as one of the top 4 internationally.
[edit] ESADE and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Recently, the Aspen Institute recognised ESADE's efforts in incorporating CSR issues into its MBA curriculum and ranked the school 2nd in the world in this respect.
ESADE Law School enjoys high standing Law firms and scholars in Spain and its programs have been ranked number one in Spain by the Spanish legal media for the past years (2004, 2005 and 2006)
The school is headquartered in Barcelona and has offshoots in Madrid, Buenos Aires and Casablanca.
ESADE is accredited by the international AMBA, AACSB and EFMD organizations.
