CEU Business School
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Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
, capital of EU member Hungary. It was founded by a group including investor and philanthropist George Soros
George Soros
George Soros is a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, philosopher, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Soros Fund Management. Soros supports progressive-liberal causes...
in 1988, and became a landmark institution since it was the first school in Central Eastern Europe to offer graduate business education leading to an American MBA.
History and Location
CEU Business School was founded in 1988 as International Management Center (IMC). After granting joint degrees with various US schools it became part of the also Soros-founded Central European UniversityCentral European University
For other uses, see European University Central European University is a graduate-level, English-language university offering degrees in the social sciences, humanities, law, public policy, business management, environmental science, and mathematics...
in 2002. Until today George Soros is closely connected with the university; amongst other things he personally hands over every Graduate's diploma. At the moment (January 2011) the school is located on the Buda side of the Danube, the address being Frankel Léo út 30-34. As part of CEU's campus redevelopment project it will be relocated to CEU's main campus in downtown Budapest (Nador utca 9-15). In fall 2010 Mel Horwitch, former program director at the MIT Sloan School of Management
MIT Sloan School of Management
The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
, has been appointed CEU Business School's new Dean.
Degrees
The School offers an intense 11-month Full-time MBA, an Executive MBA taught in a weekend-format and, together with 3 other schools, a renowned Executive MBA called International Master of Management (IMM) which is taught on multiple campuses and has recently (2010) been ranked #21 Executive MBA in the world by Financial Times.Through CEU's accreditation with the Hungarian authorities as well as with the American Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools is a voluntary, peer-based, non-profit association dedicated to educational excellence and improvement through peer evaluation and accreditation...
, CEU Business School's degrees are recognized both in the European Union and the United States. The full-time and the part-time MBA programs are accredited by the Association of MBAs
Association of MBAs
The Association of MBAs is a London-based international organization that accredits postgraduate business programs at business schools worldwide. The Association is one of the three main global accreditation bodies in business education and styles itself "the world's impartial authority on...
, the IMM program also by AACSB.
A previously existing Master of Science in IT Management and two Undergraduate Programs (BSc and Dual Degree in International Business with Uni Bocconi in Italy) have been discontinued as has the Executive MBA program in Romania.
Partner Institutions
CEU Business School offers a number of exchange and dual degree opportunities with schools in Europe, North America, and Asia including NYU Stern in New York, Schulich School of BusinessSchulich School of Business
The Schulich School of Business is York University's business school located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is an internationally-ranked business school. Schulich offers undergraduate and graduate programs in business administration, finance, public administration and international business as...
in Toronto, and CEIBS in Shanghai.
External links
- Website of CEU Business School: http://www.business.ceu.hu
- Website of the IMM Program: http://www.mostinternationalmba.com
See also
- Central European UniversityCentral European UniversityFor other uses, see European University Central European University is a graduate-level, English-language university offering degrees in the social sciences, humanities, law, public policy, business management, environmental science, and mathematics...
- George SorosGeorge SorosGeorge Soros is a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, philosopher, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Soros Fund Management. Soros supports progressive-liberal causes...