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IE Business School MBA Snapped Up By Elite Firm Bain & Co!
IE Business School MBA Snapped Up By Elite Firm Bain & Co! Fabio Gastaldi's decision to revive his stalling career by taking an MBA was proved right when the prestigious US management consultancy Bain & Co hired him shortly after he completing the programme. Fabio completed the full-time IE Business School MBA in June 2011 and joined Bain's Milan office last September. Prior to that he was with telecoms multinational Ericsson as a Solutions Integrator in Rome but requested a voluntary severance when he saw the company falling into a ...Read More
The Access MBA Team Brings the World's Business Schools to the Big Apple This June!
The Access MBA Team Brings the World's Business Schools to the Bi...
Access MBA is bringing the world's top business schools to New York City this June. MBA hopefuls based in the New York area can meet with admissions ...Read More
Meet The Team: Joel McConnell, IE Business School
Meet The Team: Joel McConnell, IE Business School
In the third in our series of 'Meet the Team' we go behind-the-scenes with an experienced Financial Aid director to understand what role funding...Read More
Mashpan Helps People Make Sense of Their Online Information Feeds!
Mashpan Helps People Make Sense of Their Online Information Feeds...
In 2011, three IE Business School MBAs created Mashpan, an online tool that organizes messages, documents and links scattered over different web service...Read More
About IE Business School
 

IE Business School gives it's students a broad business grounding, covering 10 core subjects in finance and business management. However, it's through the extensive list of elective and exchange options that IE students are able to personalize their education and hone skills by selecting one/two of those core subjects to delve into more detail. 

To help students settle in and adjust to their new surroundings IE has dedicated a week before the start of the timetable for 'orienteering'. Just like 'Freshers' week at undergrad it serves a valuable purpose to allow people to make friends and explore.

Business School supports the students with entrepreneurial ideas. 'Venture Lab' is a concept unique to IE, in this final project option (accompanying the entrepreneurial elective), you and your fellow students may develop a business idea. The project culminates when the business plans are evaluated by a board of investors. This presentation then counts as your final exam.

The number of international students choosing to study at IE Business School is well above average. Every MBA student graduating from IE leaves with more than just an MBA qualification to add to their bulging CV's...a new global network; an experience; a new language; perhaps even a funded business idea and of course not forgetting a local knowledge of Madrid.

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8 December 2011
poppyli poppyli: Hi, I'm looking for a students perspective on IE b-school! Let me know if you've studied there! Connect with Poppy Li
12 September 2011
nayemachowdhury nayemachowdhury: I'd LOVE to live in Madrid! Connect with Nayema Chowdhury
19 July 2010
IE Business School IE Business School: Introducing the new International MBA Blog from IE Business School! Exclusive content and news! Subscribe today!! http://news.imba.ie.edu/">http://news.imba.ie.edu/ Connect with Jonathan Buffard
IE Business School IE Business School: Interview with Monika Hamori on How Executives Get to the Top... Listen here http://bit.ly/aU84vo">http://bit.ly/aU84vo Connect with Jonathan Buffard
5 July 2010
IE Business School IE Business School: IE DAY: July 8, expand your network, meet our Schools. Session w/ Enrique Dans & Conf. by Vueling Chairman Josep Piqué http://registroieday.ie.edu/">http://registroieday.ie.edu/ Connect with Jonathan Buffard
8 June 2010
Jen10 Jen10: read recent story for your student elizabeth - i'm a fellow american - how many students on average do you have from the US? and where are most of your students from? thx! Connect with Jen
19 May 2010
SusieWu SusieWu: what does IE stand for? doesn't come up when i google search. impressed with the partnership with brown huh! Connect with Susie Watson
30 April 2010
IE Business School IE Business School: Orange, Banesto and @IEBusiness launch 9th annual "Concurso Escuela Banespyme-Orange" innovation and entrepreneurship http://bit.ly/a8Nl0k">http://bit.ly/a8Nl0k Connect with Jonathan Buffard
tian tian: May visit IE when I'm in Madrid :D Connect with Tian Ng

IE Business School Facts
IE students come from 80 different countries & cover 68 Nationalities
The majority of IE students are fluent in two languages upon completion of the MBA program
IE offers support to their student entrepreneurs, helping them write their business plans
Of the 52 core IE MBA faculty, half are from outside Spain and represent 20 nationalities
Over the course of 13 months, IE MBA students will complete 500 practical case studies
There are 37,000 IE Alumni members working in more than 100 countries
IE's MBA was ranked 6th in the world by the FT 2010
The IE campus is in the centre of the capital city of Spain, Madrid
IE is ranked 1st worldwide for their Distance Learning International Executive MBA
IE MBA is ranked 1st Worldwide
IE MBA is ranked 3rd Worldwide
IE MBA is ranked 2nd Worldwide
Types of MBA at IE

IE Business School International MBA Program (Full-Time, English &/or Spanish, 13 months)

  • IE's International MBA lasts 13 months to minimize time away from your professional career and offers you more than just the average MBA. In addition to the strong academic core, there are many additional ways to enhance and personalize your experience in a truly international environment. 
  • IE Business School's International MBA does not require any specific prior experience in the areas covered as subjects are introduced progressively so as to accommodate students from varying academic backgrounds. The top three professional background sectors of IE students are: Industry, Energy & Construction (20%); Consulting (18%); Financial services & Banking (18%). IE Business School employs the case method, as well as other techniques in its training, providing hands-on experience in real life cases.
  • The International MBA offers a host of options which allow you to personalize your MBA to maximize its benefit to you based on your interests, needs, and aspirations. The options are fully outlined in the IMBA+. The International MBA offers short and long exchange programs, a large selection of elective options, language options, as well as entrepreneurial projects with the Venture Lab program, Dual Degree programs with Tufts, MIT and IE Master in Advanced Finance, an international partnership with Wharton and internship opportunities through IMBA in practice.

The International Executive MBA (Bi- weekly/Online, 13 months)

  • The International Executive MBA is a high level MBA program aimed at professionals with extensive experience who wish to broaden their perspectives, re-orientate in career or simply update their management knowledge.
  • The program is designed to be accessible to students worldwide in one or other of its two formats and to be compatible with the high level work pressures of our students. Participants will have the opportunity to share experience and build a network with like-minded professionals from a hugely diverse range of professional backgrounds as well as develop a strategic, global mindset, an understanding of the newest management tools and develop the communications, decision making and change management skills required by a leader in today’s fast-moving business world.
  • The Online format is based around two online training periods and three face-to-face periods each lasting two weeks. Students are therefore able to follow the program regardless of their geographic location and work commitments. Whereas the Bi-weekly format comprises presential classes every two weeks for participants who cannot leave their place of residence and/or professional responsibilities for extended periods of time.

IE Brown Executive MBA (Online & face to face, split between IE and Brown campuses, 15 months)

  • The IE Brown Executive MBA brings together the cutting edge approaches to management developed at IE Business School with the breadth of Brown University’s excellent liberal arts curriculum. With unique content developed by IE and Brown faculty, participants are challenged to think more deeply about issues impacting the global business environment. The program utilizes a broad range of disciplines to critically analyze many of the problems and opportunities organizations are faced with, supporting participants to find innovative and entrepreneurial solutions.
  • The IE Brown Exec MBA is for students with the greatest potential, who are dynamic, motivated, creative, and who not only present an excellent academic and professional background, but also offer the kind of interpersonal skills that will permit them to obtain maximum benefit from the program.

Snapshot

AKA: IE Business School

IE Full-Time International MBA

  • Average GMAT: 680
  • Average Age: 28
  • Average years in work: 5.3
  • Course length: 13 months
  • Cost: €52,000 + €1,200 contribution to 'IE Foundation'
  • Male/Female: 72/28
  • International students: 82%

Scholarships

  • Academia to Business Scholarship (Up to 50% of tuition fees) International applicants with definitive admission to the Master in International Management program, merit-based & need-based, rolling application process
  • Alumni Scholarships (10-30% of tuition fees) Alumni of a master, doctorate or Top Management program (AMP, SMP, GSMP), dependent on which program was completed at IE, rolling application process
  • IE Foundation Scholarships (up to 20% of programme fees) International applicants with admittance  to an IE Master or DBA program, merit-based & need-based, rolling application process

Other Programs

IE Business School Members
125 people , 78 current students
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ANDRES JULIO MONTEAGUDO VIERA
Siddharth Wadhwa
Sherif Ashraf
Stephanie Ordan
Ian Trickett
Sergio Martin
Maryam Mustafa
Raúl Valle Ortiz
ANIMESH PANDA
Peter Miranda
YASHANTH PONNANNA
Sam Mar
Eliott Nally
Jonathan Buffard
Application Essay Questions

Work Experience Section

  • Please draw an organizational chart on a separate sheet indicating what position you hold in the company (start from the chairman down to the individuals reporting to you).
  • Please describe your job, stating your responsibilities and tasks. State the position of the person you report to.
  • Are you responsible for achieving objectives? Please state their nature.

Essay Questions

  1. What is your motivation for you to study a Master degree? Describe how you believe a Master degree fits with your future career objectives.
  2. What are your reasons for applying to IE ?
  3. Have you applied to any other schools? If so, please state which ones.
  4. What contribution could you make to a highly dynamic and interactive program?
  5. Which of your personal characteristics could be considered valuable for teamwork?
  6. Which of your personal characteristics would you like to improve through the program?
  7. What, in your opinion, have been your most important achievements?
  8. Please indicate other extra-curricular activities, internships or voluntary work relevant for Admissions.
  9. What are your aspirations a) Personal b) Professional c) Financial

Application Deadlines

There are April and November intakes.

"IE Business School operates on a ROLLING ADMISSIONS PROCESS. As such, there is NO EXPLICIT DEADLINE for applications for a particular intake. However, given the limited number of places in the program and the diverse student body, we recommend that you initiate the application process as far in advance as possible, roughly one year in advance of the desired program intake. This is especially important if you plan on applying for a scholarship as only accepted students may apply for a scholarship."

Application form here