Financial Times ranks ESADE MBA among global top 10 for entrepreneurship

According to a new Financial Times ranking, ESADE’s MBA is among the world’s top 10 programmes for entrepreneurs. Ranked 3rd in Europe, ESADE is the only business school in Spain to make the global top 10, thanks to its world-class dedication to supporting entrepreneurship.

ESADE is ranked 10th worldwide. Specifically, ESADE took 3rd place in alumni support for entrepreneurs (“extent to which the alumni network helped start the company”) and 5th place in direct support provided by the school (“extent to which the business school helped start the company”). Luisa Alemany, Director General of the ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute, commented: “This recognition is very important for ESADE. Since our founding over 50 years ago, entrepreneurship has always been in our DNA. The entire ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute team – including nearly a hundred mentors – and also our students are convinced of the importance of entrepreneurship as a means of boosting countries’ economic growth. In the programmes that we teach, in our research, and in all of our activities to support the entrepreneurial ecosystem, we strive to go as far as possible by creating networks of collaboration. Making the global top 10 encourages us to keep doing what we love every single day.”

The Financial Times highlighted the ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute’s role in “offering students the resources and space they need”. ESADE’s strong showing in the ranking was also made possible by ESADECREAPOLIS, an innovation ecosystem for students and companies, and EGarage, a space designed for the cultivation of new start-ups. In just a few short years, both of these facilities have attracted countless entrepreneurs focused on bringing their business ideas to life.

This new ranking used data collected for the Financial Times 2015 Global MBA ranking.