CEU Business School

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The CEU Business School is a US accredited business school in Budapest, Hungary. It was founded in 1988 by a group around the Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist George Soros and was the first institution in Central Eastern Europe whose management training led to an American MBA degree. The training is strongly based on US methods; the language of instruction is English throughout .

History and location

The CEU Business School was founded in 1988 as the International Management Center (IMC). After she had awarded her degrees together with various American business schools for a while, she became part of the Central European University (CEU), also based in Budapest and founded by Soros, in 2002 . To this day, Soros is closely connected to the university; Among other things, he personally hands over their diploma to each graduate. At the moment (January 2011) the CEU Business School is located in its own building on the Buda side of the Danube; the address is Frankel Leó út 30-34. As part of the current campus redesign of the Central European University, the business school will be relocated to the inner-city main campus (Nádor utca 9-15). In the fall of 2010, Mel Horwitch, a former program director at MIT's Sloan School of Management , was named the new dean of the CEU Business School.

Course offer

The CEU Business School offers an 11-month full-time MBA, a part-time Executive MBA on weekends and, together with 3 other business schools, a renowned Executive MBA called International Master's of Management (IMM), whose participants all visit several locations and the is ranked 21st of all Executive MBA programs worldwide by the current Financial Times Ranking (2010). Due to the accreditation of the Central European University by both the Hungarian authorities and the US Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, the degrees of the CEU Business School are recognized in both the US and the EU . The full-time and executive MBA programs are accredited by the Association of MBAs ; the IMM program from the AACSB .

A formerly existing Master of Science in IT Management program and two undergraduate programs (Bachelor of Science and Dual Degree in International Business with Luigi Bocconi University of Economics in Italy) have been discontinued; also the Executive MBA program in Romania.

Partner universities

The CEU Business School offers a range of exchange programs and double degree programs with partners in Europe, North America and Asia, including the Stern School of Business in New York, the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto and the CEIBS in Shanghai. In Germany there are exchange programs with the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management , the EBS University for Economics and Law , and the TU Bergakademie Freiberg , with the latter also offering a double degree program.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Financial Times EMBA Ranking 2010

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