Full Time MBA
Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas
Av. Pedralbes, 60-62
Barcelona ,
Spain
Program Web site:
Status:
Private Institution
Program e-mail address:
Graduate business school is accredited by:
AACSB International
Association of MBAs (AMBA)
European Foundation for Mgt. Development (EFMD)
Years in which the following programs were founded:
Full-time MBA: 1976
Part-time MBA : 1964
Undergraduate business program: 1958
Executive MBA: 2001
Executive Education (non-degree): 1960
PhD program: 1995
Total direct costs (tuition and required fees) of the entire MBA program:
Resident : $ 70,000
Nonresident : $ 70,000
Recommended annual budget (Resident): $ 104,000
Recommended annual budget (Nonresident): $ 104,000
Full-time program (months):
18
Graduate business school enrollment
Total graduate business school: 1017
Full-time MBA: 302
Part-time MBA: 248
Executive MBA: 177
PhD program: 64
MS: 141
Undergraduate business school enrollment
1,254
Graduate degree programs:
Master of Finance
master of Human resources
Master of international Management/Business
Master of Marketing
Other graduate degree programs:
Executive Master in Marketing & Sales; Master of Operations & Logistics; Executive Master in Public Administration
Application Deadlines
31/10/2008 16/01/2009 10/04/2009 17/07/2009
Does the program have rolling admissions?
No
Is proficiency in English required for admission?
Yes
Is a minimum score on an English language proficiency test required?
Yes
Which English language proficiency tests are accepted?
IELTS
TOEFL Computer Based
TOEFL Internet Based Test
TOEFL Paper-based Test
Other: N/A
Minimum paper-based TOEFL score required for MBAs:
600
GMAT Score:
Very Important
Resume/Work Experience:
Very Important
Application Essays:
Important
Interviews:
Very Important
Recommendations:
Important
Undergraduate Transcripts:
Important
Applications (admitted and denied) to the newest class:
498
Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class:
45 %
Admitted applicants who enrolled in the newest class:
61 %
Applicants who were re-applicants from prior years:
1 %
Applicant interviews are:
Required
Applicants (admitted and denied) who were interviewed:
85 %
Admitted applicants who were interviewed:
100 %
International applications received:
86 %
Applications from women received:
28 %
Mean base salary forgone:
$ 49,518
Median base salary forgone:
$ 49,518
Full-time students in newest entering class (2008-2009) that are:
Female: 27
%
International: 78
%
Ethnicity/US Students in Program
Students from following regions:
Africa : 2
%
Asia: 16
%
Eastern Europe and Central Asia: 2
%
Latin America and the Caribbean: 16
%
Middle East: 3
%
North America: 21
%
Oceania : 0
%
Western Europe: 40
%
Entering North American citizens by region:
Mean months of work experience of newest entering class:
70
Middle 80% range of work experience of newest entering class in months:
From:
30
To:
108
Median age of entering class:
29
Mean age of entering class:
28
Full-time MBAs apply for financial aid through:
Dedicated financial aid office at the B-school
Full-time MBAs applied for financial aid for the current academic year:
95 %
Full-time MBAs receiving financial aid through school:
85 %
Median MBA financial aid package for the current academic year:
$ 80,000
On what basis are scholarships awarded?
academic merit
Full-tuition scholarships school will award during the upcoming academic year:
0
How does an applicant apply for scholarship consideration?
Unique scholarship application
Mean scholarships awarded to full-time MBAs in the previous academic year:
$ 12,000
Percentage of second-year students receiving the same or more amount of money in their second year of study:
95 %
Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all MBAs regardeless of nationality?
Yes
If so, what is the maximum amount a student can borrow per year?
$ 40,000
Applicants required to take the GMAT?
Yes
Mean : 660
Middle 80% range GMAT scores:
From:
600
To:
750
Average students in a full-time MBA core class:
60
Average students in a full-time MBA elective class:
20
Elective courses available to full-time MBA students:
50
Electives that have been added to the full-time program since June 30, 2008:
Real Estate Finance
Leadership Power and
Influence
Investment Management
Family Business Management
Successful Enrtepreneurship in R&D
Year of last major change or significant overhaul to the core curriculum:
2008
Concentrations and specializations offered to full-time MBA students:
Entrepreneurship
Finance
General Management
Health Care Administration
Human Resource Management
Marketing
Operations Management
Public Administration
Strategy
Does the school offer an accelerated full-time MBA program?
Yes
Faculty employed by the B-school:
152
Full-time faculty
Tenured: 68
Non-Tenured: 22
Adjunct/Visiting Faculty
Tenured: 27
Non-Tenured: 35
Women on Faculty
Tenured: 13
Non-Tenured: 10
Minority Faculty
International Faculty
Tenured: 19
Non-Tenured: 25
Faculty with PhDs
Tenured: 65
Non-Tenured: 39
Faculty who are also members of company boards of directors or advisors:
68 %
Faculty who have owned their own business:
41 %
Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:
Business Ethics
Consulting
Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Investment Banking
Marketing
Nonprofit
Other
Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual
Hispanic Student Organization
International Club
Partners/Family
Volunteer
Wine
Women in MBA
Teaching methods used
Case study: 30
%
Distance Learning: 15
%
Experiential Learning: 0
%
Lecture: 30
%
Simulations: 5
%
Team Project: 20
%
Requirements for graduation:
Students must write a complete business plan
Students must have attended a minimum number of classes
Students are required to be fluent in more than one language by graduation
Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/Letter grade average
Is there a wireless network in main B-school buildings?
Yes
Technology improvements in the last three academic years:
New teaching support platform (Moodle). Medialabs. State-of-the-art audiovisual equipment in 34 classrooms. New University ID card that can be used to access facilities, add e-signatures and as a debit card. CRM. Teaching activity and research management platform. Introduction of ITIL methodology in technological support areas. Balanced Scorecard.
Amount spent:
$ 8,148,000
Living MBA alumni:
6,747
Active MBA alumni clubs
47
Countries in which MBA clubs exist
29
Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in past academic year?
No
Does the main university offer career placement services for alumni?
Yes
Does the main university have an alumni networking Web site?
Yes
University alumni networking site:
Does the B-School have an alumni networking site:
No
Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database?
Yes
Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 76
%
Graduates not seeking employment: 24
%
Graduates for whom you have no information regarding employment: 0
%
Of grads not seeking employment: Percentage of graduates not seeking employment
who were company-sponsored, or already employed: 29
%
Percentage who were continuing their education (after graduation): 3
%
Percentage who were postponing their job search: 25
%
Percentage who were starting their own business(es) : 43
%
Percentage who were not seeking employment for other reasons: 0
%
Annual job-searching trips that the school coordinates or participates in:
Destination: NSH MBA, USA
Month: October
Amount Paid By School: None
Destination: Top MBA Careers Fair, UK
Month: October
Amount Paid By School: None
Destination: London Banking Days
Month: November
Amount Paid By School: None
Destination: MBA abd Masaters Conference
Month: November
Amount Paid By School: None
Destination: Orlando
Primary Source of Job Offer
School-facilitated activities: 60
%
Graduate-facilitated activities: 24
%
No information provided by graduate: 16
%
Companies that recruited second-year MBAs on campus in 2007-08:
NA
Companies that posted full-time job offers for MBAs on the school's job boards in 2007-08:
NA
Job Offers for 2008 graduates:
Received first job offer by graduation: 84
%
Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 13
%
Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 0
%
Did not report having received a job offer: 3
%
Top recruiting firms and the number of full-time MBAs hired in the past 12 months:
|
Barclays Bank PLC |
3 |
||
|
Citigroup Inc. |
2 |
||
|
J&J |
8 |
||
|
DUPONT |
3 |
||
|
NOVARTIS |
3 |
||
|
TECH DATA |
3 |
||
|
ALTAIR |
2 |
||
|
ARCELOR MITTAL |
2 |
||
|
LOUIS VUITTON |
2 |
||
Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus:
25 %
Mean and median base salary, signing bonuses and other compensation for most recent employed graduates:
Mean base salary for most recent graduates: $ 90,033
Median base salary for most recent graduates: $ 85,590
Mean signing bonus for most recent graduates: $ 20,565
Median signing bonus for most recent graduates: $ 15,596
Mean other guaranteed compensation for most recent graduates: $ 28,001
Median other guaranteed compensation for most recent graduates: $
16,059
Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:
Consulting: 20
%
Finance/Accounting: 17
%
General Management: 17
%
Human Resources: 4
%
Marketing/Sales (Public Relations, Product Management, Market Research,
Advertising, etc.): 35
%
Management Information Systems (MIS): 3
%
Operations/Logistics (Logistics, Purchasing, Engineering, etc.): 4
%
Other: 0
%
Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:
Government (Federal, State, Local, Military): 0
%
Consulting: 20
%
Consumer Products: 7
%
Financial Services: 17
%
Manufacturing: 20
%
Media/Entertainment: 0
%
Non-Profit: 0
%
Petroleum/Energy: 1
%
Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health care Products: 20
%
Real Estate: 4
%
Technology: 5
%
Other: 0
%
Graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:
Africa: 0
%
Asia: 4
%
Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia: 0
%
Latin America and the Caribbean: 13
%
Middle East: 3
%
North America: 10
%
Oceana: 3
%
Western Europe: 68
%
Within North America, graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:
Northeast: 25
%
Mid-Atlantic: 0
%
South: 0
%
Southwest: 0
%
Midwest: 63
%
West: 13
%
Possessions and territories: 0
%
Canada: 0
%
Top Companies - Internships:
|
Nestle |
3 |
||
|
American Express |
2 |
||
|
Goldman Sachs Group |
2 |
||
|
J&J |
5 |
||
|
DSM |
3 |
||
|
ACEROID |
3 |
||
|
LA REAL STATE |
2 |
||
|
CAIXA CATALUNYA |
2 |
||
|
VODAFONE |
2 |
||
|
IMG |
2 |
||
Internships awarded that are paid:
93 %
Mean and median intern compensation per week:
Mean :
851
Median:
750
Average internship length in weeks:
12
School Comments:
N/A
Very international program (in my class 28 different nationalities out of 90 students), very team oriented, very prestigious, excellent career services. -- Consulting
I enjoyed the experience. The b-school has the right size and gives you the chance to be in direct contact with the teachers and departments. I met a fantastic group. -- Finance
Small and flexible program, very international and students receive a lot of attention from faculty and career service office. -- Finance
All I can say is that ESADE is a small b-school but my experience was that it was very professionally run and a school, which clearly has a clear plan for the future to continually improve and better itself. I was very happy with my choice of school and would certainly recommend the course that I attended. -- Consulting
The MBA at ESADE was so far the greatest experience I have embarked in. Apart from being a good school in terms of quality of teaching, it generates a wonderful environment where students are competitive, but at the same time, they never put their personal interests before the group's. Furthermore, the quality of the students really raises the bar. Overall, being an engineer, I felt that the program definitely made my horizons wider and allowed me to zoom out in many things. -- Consulting
I loved ESADE. Everybody knew everybody, administration mixed with students and vice versa including the janitors. This was a direct function of the relatively smaller size of the program. The program focused around the core themes of strategy, aspects of international business and finance. Finally, the quality of students was incredible both intellectually as well as street smarts/their previous work experience. What i appreciated most was that each student literally "brought something different to the program." While some students may not have earned the stellar 700+ GMAT grades, ESADE proved to me that the GMAT is a limited tool (For evaluation of applicant capability) since I encountered extraordinarily talented, experienced, and passionate students. -- Consulting
ESADE is without a doubt the best MBA program for having fun, meeting interesting international and diverse people, and learning about yourself. Where you suffer is job placement and academics, but many have been able to network their way into excellent jobs, and the soft skills attained at ESADE will serve them better than any other school. -- Information Technology
My MBA from ESADE was a life changing experience in numerous ways. The cultural exposure to different management styles from around the world; the vanishing concept of aggressive, selfish students; the openness of knowledge sharing and camaraderie among students, faculty, alumni and visiting professionals; the closeness of the group after graduation, among the most important. -- Consulting
ESADE offers a very interesting ONE YEAR MBA Program, specially meant for those candidates with strong professional experience (7-9 years). -- Marketing
ESADE MBA is the right choice to develop yourself as a person and as a professional. -- Marketing
I think ESADE is a great school with a lot of potential and for someone coming from Latin America, it opens a world of options as well as an interesting personal experience. -- Consulting
The experience I had was one of the best of my life -- mainly due to my colleagues in the program. Their diverse nature, intelligence, and open-mindedness made it a sure fact that I will continue to keep in contact with many of them for the rest of my life. -- Consulting
I will recommend the same program to those people that are looking for a new challenge in their life. MBA is not just a professional experience, I would say it's more personal maturity rather than professional. It's a good stop on your professional and personal life to start thinking what you really want for your future, rather than keep going with any opportunity you could have achieve before starting an MBA. -- Marketing
Strong emphasis on team work, which I consider very important in today's business environment, in addition to business knowledge and skill set. -- Marketing
Depending on one's international focus I would definitely recommend the ESADE MBA, as I found it's small school size coupled with a high-achievement and international atmosphere very stimulating. -- Investment Banking
If someone is searching for an international MBA experience, I would definitely recommend ESADE. Barcelona is a cosmopolitan city where expats can lead a comfortable life, my class consisted of a wide array of nationalities, and the school provides a many interesting international opportunities. -- Finance
ESADE is probably one of the very few schools who still believe in co-operative MBA and not competitive MBA. They consistently preach ethics and team work and do lead by example. I also believe ESADE has a huge human part in its MBA program and has the most flexible mechanism to cater to student's needs. I'm sure they are one of the very few schools where the entire MBA faculty and office folks know all of the students by name. -- Finance
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