On Friday, ESADE celebrated the graduation of nearly 400 students at the Barcelona International Convention Centre. In addition to the graduates and the faculty of the various concluding programmes, the ceremony was attended by a large number of the graduates’ family members and friends. The students were awarded their diplomas, after completing their studies for the various undergraduate degrees offered by ESADE Business and Law School. 

The master of ceremonies was Diana Ferrer, an assistant professor and director of the Part-Time Master in Tax Consultancy and Management and of the University Master Degree in Lawyering at ESADE Law School. The students receiving their diplomas belonged to the seventh graduating classes of the Bachelor in Law and Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA) and the second graduating class of the Double Degree in Business Administration and Law.

The welcoming remarks were given by Joaquín Uriach, president of the ESADE Foundation Board of Trustees. Josep Franch, dean of ESADE Business School, Sergio Llebaría, vice-dean of ESADE Law School, Eugenia Bieto, director general of ESADE, and Jordi Riera, vice-rector for Academic Policy and deputy rector at Ramon Llull University, also spoke at the event.

Unique exchange experience

Speaking on behalf of the BBA students, Alberto Mateo Pino and Patricia Grau Serra looked back to the start of their journey: ‘And that is how we began at ESADE, the university for which some of us left our home towns behind and came to the wonderful city of Barcelona to study business administration, a degree that would open many doors for us, but that, at the same time, we would have to work very hard to earn.’ The students also highlighted ‘the unique exchange experience’, a period that allowed each of them to live in different parts of the world.

The representatives of the Bachelor in Law students, Nuria Rodríguez Rosell and Carolina Dalmau Benavent, underscored the importance of the team and of being united. ‘Little could we have imagined that these four years would end up becoming one of the most beautiful times of our lives. This time has sufficed for us to realise that we have a great family. Each of us has acquired a unique role, an important role, without which nothing would have been the same.’

‘For us, the ESADE Double Degree programme is the respect, admiration and gratitude to those who have taught us so patiently; it is the determination we have been forced to adopt in the face of hitherto unknown levels of stress and sacrifice; it is the rigour of the professional integrity that has been instilled in us and that has equipped us with a healthy ambition’, said Diana Maria Nicorescu and Pablo de Rabasa Delgado, speaking on behalf of the Double Degree students about what this time has meant for them.