 Financial Times releases its 2008 Business Schools ranking. EADA has climbed 6 steps up the scale with regard to 2007.
Barcelona, December 1st 2008. EADA belongs to the select group of Europe's most prestigious business schools according to the highly reputed economic newspaper, Financial Times which has just brought out its latest ranking, the FINANCIAL TIMES EUROPEAN BUSINESS SCHOOLS 2008 - The TOP GRADUATE BUSINESS SCHOOLS, the outcome of different analyses of full-time MBA's, Executive MBA's, open programmes and European Masters. More specifically, EADA ranks number 39 on the 2008 ranking of 65 schools. EADA has climbed 6 steps up the scale with regard to 2007 from number 45 on the ranking to number 39.
David Parcerisas, the President of the Foundation points to the fact that Spain and the city of Barcelona in particular, has managed to consolidate its leadership in this field, with three of the city's schools at the top, which effectively makes Barcelona a cluster of knowledge in this area.
Quality Certifications
Today, in addition to the rankings in publications such as the Financial Times and The Economist, there are also a number of widely recognised academic quality certifications. The two accreditations with the highest international prestige in the field of manager education are Europe's EQUIS and AMBA accreditations, which along with the North American AACSB accreditation, belong to the select club of "the three crowns". These quality standards represent a qualitative turning point in the business schools environment. The most talented professionals looking for a good programme suited to their needs together with recruitment companies seek out these accreditations as a quality guarantee. In Spain today only EADA, ESADE, IESE and IE have been awarded these accreditations out of a total of 113 schools worldwide.
EADA, Escuela de Alta Dirección y Administración, was set up in 1957 by a group of entrepreneurs and professionals as an economically and ideologically independent institution. |
