INSEAD

INSEAD (the name was formerly an acronym for the French "Institut Europen d'Administration des Affaires" or European Institute of Business Administration) is one of the worlds largest and most prestigious graduate business schools[citation needed], with campuses in Europe (Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore) and the Middle East (Abu Dhabi), as well as a research center in Israel. Academic offers include a full-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme, a Master of Finance programme, a PhD in management programme, and several executive education programmes (including an executive MBA). INSEAD MBA students and PhD candidates have the chance to study in three continents (through a multi-campus structure,[2] an alliance with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania[3] and a student exchange programme with the Kellogg School of Management[4]). INSEAD also has reciprocal agreements with Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Kellogg School of Management to share career services. Alumni of the four schools have exclusive access to job opportunities databases of each other.[5] Campuses INSEAD has three campuses. The original campus (Europe Campus) is located in Fontainebleau, near Paris, France. INSEAD's second campus (Asia Campus) is in the Buona Vista district of the city-state of Singapore. The third and newest campus (Middle East Campus) is located in Abu Dhabi and serves only open enrollment executive education programmes. The MBA programme is taught on both European and Asian campuses, with most participants spending part of their curriculum on both campuses. INSEAD has a North Americas office in New York City, and a Research Centre in Caesarea, Israel.[6] MBA The INSEAD MBA curriculum comprises a range of required core courses and electives. The core courses cover traditional management disciplines including finance, economics, organizational behaviour, accounting, ethics, marketing, statistics, operations management, international political analysis, supply chain management, leadership and corporate strategy. There are approximately 80 electives on offer in the Accounting and Control, Decision Sciences, Economics and Political Science, Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise, Finance, Marketing, Organisational, Strategy and Technology and Operations Management areas. The INSEAD MBA starting in September only takes 10 months to complete and is two months shorter than the one-year MBA programs at Oxford's Sad Business School and Cambridge Judge Business School. INSEAD also offers a 12 month MBA starting in January for students who want the opportunity to complete a summer internship. Rankings INSEAD is currently ranked as the #1 global business school by several leading publications including Bloomberg Businessweek and QS Global 200 Business Schools Report.[12][13][14] The Financial Times ranked it #4 in the world at 2011 (tied with Stanford Graduate School of
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Business), and #6 in the world at 2012. Moreover, it has been the highest ranked one-year MBA programme on the list of Financial Times for several years in a row. Post MBA Careers The INSEAD Career Services team[15] assists companies wishing to recruit INSEAD MBAs and participants. Approximately 120 companies/firms visit the Asia and Europe campuses during each recruitment season. Career Services organises company presentations and bi-annual career fairs on both campuses, sources jobs on its internal platform CareerLink and publishes a CV book for each graduating class. Main employers of 2010 class MBA participants and the number of graduates employed were McKinsey & Company (127), Boston Consulting Group (60), Bain & Company (48), Booz & Company (40), Roland Berger Strategy Consultants (15), A.T. Kearney (14), Google (13), Johnson & Johnson (10), Standard Chartered Bank (9), Accenture (8), LVMH (8), Groupon (8), Barclays Capital (8), Eli Lilly (7), L'Oreal (7), Samsung (7), Goldman Sachs (6), HSBC (6), UBS (6), Morgan Stanley (5), Credit Suisse (5), etc.[16] INSEAD has a reciprocal agreement with Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Kellogg School of Management to share career services. Alumni of the four schools have access to job opportunities database of each other.[5] INSEAD also participates in the MBA Global Career Forum, together with other leading business schools.[17]