EGADE
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Graduate school
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of Business
Business
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at ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, or "Monterrey Tech"), a university
University
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system with 33 campus
Campus
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es in 26 cities in Mexico
Mexico
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.
EGADE Business School was created more than 30 years ago in Monterrey
Monterrey
Monterrey , is the capital city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León in the country of Mexico. The city is anchor to the third-largest metropolitan area in Mexico and is ranked as the ninth-largest city in the nation. Monterrey serves as a commercial center in the north of the country and is the...
, 180 miles south of the US-Mexican border. The institution maintains nine satellite locations in Latin America
Latin America
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, more than 1,500 distance learning sites, and seven foreign offices in North America
North America
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, South America
South America
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, Asia
Asia
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and Europe
Europe
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. It has an enrollment of 1,100 graduate students, an alumni
Alumnus
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network of over 5,600, and 77 full-time faculty. More than 78% of full-time students are international representing a total of 22 nationalities.
In the 2010 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report
QS Global 200 Business Schools Report
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the school was ranked 4th in Central and Latin America.
EGADE Business School has been accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business ("AACSB") in the USA and the European Quality Improvement System
European Quality Improvement System
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("EQUIS") in Europe.