Fundação Getulio Vargas (Getulio Vargas

Getúlio Vargas

Getúlio Dornelles Vargas served as President of Brazil, first as dictator, from 1930 to 1945, and in a democratically elected term from 1951 until his suicide in 1954. Vargas led Brazil for 18 years, the most for any President, and second in Brazilian history to Emperor Pedro II...

 Foundation, often abbreviated as FGV or simply GV) is a Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

ian higher education

Higher education

Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...

 institution founded on December 20, 1944. It offers regular courses of Economics

Economics

Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

, Business Administration, Law

Law

Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...

, Social Sciences

Social sciences

Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...

 and Information technology management

Information technology management

IT management is the discipline whereby all of the technology resources of a firm are managed in accordance with its needs and priorities. These resources may include tangible investments like computer hardware, software, data, networks and data centre facilities, as well as the staffs who are...

. Its original goal was to train people for the country's public- and private-sector management. Other courses began to be offered as the institution grew. It is considered by Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy is a bimonthly American magazine founded in 1970 by Samuel P. Huntington and Warren Demian Manshel.Originally, the magazine was a quarterly...

 magazine to be a top-5 "policymaker think-tank" worldwide.

FGV produces a large amount of academic research. The subjects cover macro and micro-economics, finance, business, decision-making, law, health, welfare, poverty and unemployment, pollution, and sustainable development. The foundation also maintains research programs in the fields of History

History

History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

, Social Sciences, Education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

, Justice

Justice

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, Citizenship

Citizenship

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, and Politics

Politics

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. FGV also executes projects at the request of the public sector, private enterprise and international agencies such as the World Bank

World Bank

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...

 and the Inter-American Development Bank

Inter-American Development Bank

The Inter-American Development Bank is the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean...

 (IDB). Notable examples of such work include assistance for the successful Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

 bids for the 2007 Pan American Games

Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2007 Pan American Games

The Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2007 Pan American Games and Parapan American Games was a successful campaign, first recognised by the Pan American Sports Organization in August 2001. Rio de Janeiro began working on the idea of staging the 2007 Pan American Games during the 1999 Pan American Games...

 and the 2016 Summer Olympics.

FGV Management offers lato sensu graduate programs in various fields in its Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo campuses. For firms, there is the GVPEC, FGV São Paulo's Continued Education Program.

FGV also offers in-company courses FGV's customers in this area include Caixa Econômica Federal

Caixa Econômica Federal

Caixa Econômica Federal , also referred to as Caixa or CEF, is a Brazilian bank. It is the largest government-owned financial institution in Latin America. It is the largest bank in Brazil and in Latin America by assets....

, Banco do Brasil

Banco do Brasil

Banco do Brasil S.A. is the largest Brazilian and Latin American bank by assets, and the third by market value. The bank, headquartered in Brasília, was founded in 1808 and is the oldest active bank in Brazil — and one of the oldest financial institutions in the world.Banco do Brasil is controlled...

, Banco Itaú

Banco Itaú

Itaú Unibanco is a publicly quoted bank with headquarters in São Paulo, Brazil. The bank is the result of the merger of Banco Itaú and Unibanco, which occurred on November 4, 2008 to form Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A, the largest financial conglomerate in the Southern Hemisphere and is the 10th...

, Furnas Centrais Elétricas and Rede Ferroviária Federal, among others. Short-term programs include IDE's Business Administration Course ("Curso de Administração de Empresas" – CADEMP) and distance-learning programs such as FGV Online.

In the 2009 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report

QS Global 200 Business Schools Report

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 the school was ranked 3rd in South America.

Units

The Foundation has the following units in Rio de Janeiro:

• Graduate School of Economics at the Getulio Vargas Foundation
  Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia
  Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da Fundação Getulio Vargas Graduate School of Economics of the Getulio Vargas FundationThe mission of the Graduate School of Economics of the Getulio Vargas Foundation is enlarging human knowledge and contributing to solving the worlds - Brazil's in particular -...
  
   (EPGE)
• Brazilian School of Public Administration and Business
  Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas
  The Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas is a Brazilian private higher education institution founded in April of 1952 and linked to the Fundação Getúlio Vargas. The School also works as a research institution...
  
   (EBAPE)
• School of Law in Rio de Janeiro Getulio Vargas Foundation
  FGV Direito Rio
  The FGV Direito Rio is a Brazilian private law higher education founded in 2002 in Rio de Janeiro by the Fundação Getúlio Vargas...
  
   (FGV Law-Rio)
• School of Social Sciences of the Getulio Vargas Foundation
  Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil
  The Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil is a BrazilIan private higher education institution founded in 1973 and linked to the Fundação Getúlio Vargas.The CPDOC commenced activities in 2003 in the area of learning, with the launch of its Professional Master of...
  
   (CPDOC)
• Brazilian Institute of Economics
  Instituto Brasileiro de Economia
  The IBRE is an Brazilian institute founded in 1951 and linked to the Fundação Getúlio Vargas. IBRE focuses on measurements and applied research concerning the Brazilian economy...
  
   (IBRE)

And these units in São Paulo:

• School of Business Administration of São Paulo
  Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo
  The Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo is a Brazilian private higher education institution, founded in 1954 and linked to the Fundação Getúlio Vargas....
  
   (EAESP)
• School of Economics of São Paulo's Getulio Vargas Foundation
  Escola de Economia de São Paulo
  The Escola de Economia de São Paulo is a Brazilian private economics higher education institution founded in April, 2003 in São Paulo by the Fundação Getúlio Vargas....
  
   (EESP)
• School of Law, São Paulo's Getulio Vargas Foundation (EDSP)

It also features:

• FGV Brasília
  FGV Brasília
  FGV Brasília is a Brazilian private higher education institution established in 1978 and linked to the Fundação Getúlio Vargas. It is the only institution of FGV located outise the Rio de Janeiro-São Paulo axis. The FGV Center in Brasília develops strict graduate programs in various areas of...
  
  
• Getulio Vargas Foundation Press
• Institute for Educational Development of the Getulio Vargas Foundation
  Instituto de Desenvolvimento Educacional
  The Instituto de Desenvolvimento Educacional is a Brazilian private institution established in 2003 to develop and manage a single distribution network at the domestic at international levels for the Continued Education programs developed by the various Fundação Getúlio Vargas schools and...
  
   (IDE)

Accreditation

FGV is the only Brazilian school to receive Triple accreditation

Triple accreditation

Triple Accreditation is the accreditation awarded to 55 business schools worldwide by the three largest and most influential business school accreditation associations:...

 from all three major international accreditation institutions (and one of only 55 schools worldwide):

• AACSB
• AMBA
  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...
  
  
• EQUIS
  Equis
  Equis may refer to:*European Quality Improvement System an international system of assessment and accreditation of higher education institutions in management and business administration run by the European Foundation for Management Development....
  
   (EFMD)

Partner Institutions

• Africa
  Africa
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  • Wits Business School

• Germany
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
  
  • Universität Mannheim
  • Universität zu Köln
  • Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
    Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
    The Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz is a university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg. With approximately 36,000 students in about 150 schools and clinics, it is among the ten largest universities in Germany...
    
    
  • WHU Koblenz
    WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management
    WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management is a German business school. The privately financed school was founded in 1984 by the Koblenz chamber of commerce and is located in Vallendar near Koblenz...
    
    

• Argentina
  Argentina
  Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
  
  
  • Universidad de Belgrano
  • Universidad de San Andrés
  • Universidad Torcuato di Tella
    Universidad Torcuato di Tella
    The Torcuato Di Tella University is a non-profit private university founded in 1991. Located in the Belgrano neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, it has an undergraduate enrollment of 1,200 students and a graduate enrollment of 1,300. The university is focused primarily on social sciences...
    
    

• Australia
  Australia
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  • Macquarie University
    Macquarie University
    Macquarie University is an Australian public teaching and research university located in Sydney, with its main campus situated in Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney...
    
    

• Austria
  Austria
  Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
  
  
  • Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien

• Belgium
  Belgium
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  • Université catholique de Louvain
    Université catholique de Louvain
    The Université catholique de Louvain, sometimes known, especially in Belgium, as UCL, is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It is located in Louvain-la-Neuve and in Brussels...
    
    

• Canada
  Canada
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  • École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal
  • McGill University
    McGill University
    Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
    
    
  • University of British Columbia
    University of British Columbia
    The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...
    
    
  • University of Manitoba
    University of Manitoba
    The University of Manitoba , in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is the largest university in the province of Manitoba. It is Manitoba's most comprehensive and only research-intensive post-secondary educational institution. It was founded in 1877, making it Western Canada’s first university. It placed...
    
    
  • University of Western Ontario
    University of Western Ontario
    The University of Western Ontario is a public research university located in London, Ontario, Canada. The university's main campus covers of land, with the Thames River cutting through the eastern portion of the main campus. Western administers its programs through 12 different faculties and...
    
    
  • York University
    York University
    York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....
    
    
  • University of Calgary
    University of Calgary
    The University of Calgary is a public research university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1966 the U of C is composed of 14 faculties and more than 85 research institutes and centres.More than 25,000 undergraduate and 5,500 graduate students are currently...
    
    
  • Queen's University
    Queen's University
    Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...
    
    

• Chile
  Chile
  Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
  
  
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

• Colombia
  Colombia
  Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
  
  
  • Universidad de los Andes
    University of the Andes, Colombia
    The University of the Andes , is a coeducational, nonsectarian private university located in city centre Bogotá, Colombia. Founded in 1948, the University has 9 faculties: Administration, Architecture and Design, Arts and Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences, Law, Economics, Engineering and...
    
    

• Denmark
  Denmark
  Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
  
  
  • Copenhagen Business School
    Copenhagen Business School
    Copenhagen Business School, also known as CBS, is situated in Copenhagen, Denmark. With more than 17,000 students and 1,300 staff members, CBS is also one of the largest business schools in Europe. CBS offers a wide range of business-oriented university programmes and a research environment...
    
    

• Spain
  Spain
  Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
  
  
  • ESADE
    ESADE
    The Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas is a college associated with the Ramon Llull University located in Barcelona, Spain. ESADE is composed of three departments; the ESADE Business School, the ESADE Executive Language Center and the ESADE Law School...
    
    
  • IE Business School (formerly Instituto de Empresa)

• United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
  
  • Brandeis University
    Brandeis University
    Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
    
    
  • Brigham Young University
    Brigham Young University
    Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...
    
    
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...
    
    
  • Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
    Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
    The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs is a graduate school at The University of Texas at Austin that was founded in 1970 to offer professional training in public policy analysis and administration for students interested in pursuing careers in government and public affairs-related areas...
    
     and McCombs School of Business
    McCombs School of Business
    The McCombs School of Business, also referred to as the McCombs School or simply McCombs, is a business school at The University of Texas at Austin. In addition to the main Austin campus, McCombs offers classes outside Central Texas in Dallas, Houston and internationally in Mexico City...
    
     (graduate colleges from University of Texas at Austin
    University of Texas at Austin
    The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
    
    )
  • Stern School of Business (New York University
    New York University
    New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
    
    )
  • Pepperdine University
    Pepperdine University
    Pepperdine University is an independent, private, medium-sized university affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The university's campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States, near Malibu, is the location for Seaver College, the School of...
    
    
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
    University of Illinois at Chicago
    The University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, near the Chicago Loop...
    
    
  • Tulane University
    Tulane University
    Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...
    
    
  • University of California, Los Angeles
    University of California, Los Angeles
    The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
    
    
  • University of California, Davis
    University of California, Davis
    The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...
    
    
  • University of Chicago
    University of Chicago
    The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
    
    
  • University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
    
    
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...
    
    
  • University of Southern California
    University of Southern California
    The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
    
    
  • Columbia Business School
    Columbia Business School
    Columbia Business School is the business school of Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1916 to provide business training and professional preparation for undergraduate and graduate Columbia University students...
    
     (Columbia University
    Columbia University
    Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
    
    )
  • Indiana University
    Indiana University
    Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
    
    
  • Harvard Law School
    Harvard Law School
    Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...
    
    

• Finland
  Finland
  Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
  
  
  • Helsinki School of Economics
    Helsinki School of Economics
    The Aalto University School of Economics , known as Helsinki School of Economics until 2009, is the largest and leading business school in Finland and one of the most renowned in Europe...
    
    

• France
  France
  The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
  
  
  • École supérieure de commerce de Rouen
    École Supérieure de Commerce de Rouen
    The Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Rouen is a leading French business school.ESC Rouen's quality is recognized at European level through its EQUIS accreditation and its Financial Times' ranking 13th position best European Master in Management...
    
    
  • École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales
  • École de management de Lyon
    École de Management de Lyon
    EMLYON Business School is a French business school. It was founded in Lyon in 1872 by the local business community, and is affiliated to the Lyon Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It has triple accreditation: EQUIS by the EFMD, AMBA, and the AACSB.-Campuses:EMLYON has three campuses...
    
    
  • Grenoble école de management
    Grenoble école de management
    Grenoble Ecole de Management also known as Grenoble EM or Grenoble School of Management, was founded in 1984 by the local chamber of commerce...
    
    
  • École supérieure de commerce de Pau
    École Supérieure de Commerce de Pau
    The École Supérieure de Commerce de Pau is a French business school. ESC Pau's quality is recognised at European level through its EQUIS accreditation .-Campus:...
    
    
  • École supérieure de commerce de Reims
    École supérieure de commerce de Reims
    École supérieure de commerce de Reims , is one of France's leading Grandes Ecoles of management. Founded in 1928, it belongs to Reims Management School , a group of schools accredited EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB.- See also :...
    
    
  • École des Hautes Études Commerciales
  • École supérieure de commerce de Montpellier
  • Institut d'études politiques de Paris
    Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
    The Institut d'études politiques de Paris , simply referred to as Sciences Po , is a public research and higher education institution in Paris, France, specialised in the social sciences. It has the status of grand établissement, which allows its admissions process to be highly selective...
    
     (Sciences Po)
  • Institut d'études politiques de Lille
    Institut d'études politiques de Lille
    Sciences Po - Institut d'Études Politiques de Lille , officially referred to as Sciences Po Lille , is part of the highly selective grandes écoles and is located in Lille, France...
    
    
  • Université Paris-Dauphine

• The Netherlands
  • Rotterdam School of Management
    Rotterdam School of Management
    Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University is the international business school of the Erasmus University Rotterdam located in Rotterdam, Netherlands...
    
     (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)
  • Universiteit Maastricht
    Universiteit Maastricht
    Maastricht University is a public university in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Founded in 1976, the university is the second youngest in the Netherlands. The university's founding name was Rijksuniversiteit Limburg and was changed into Universiteit Maastricht in 1996...
    
    
  • Universiteit van Amsterdam
    Universiteit van Amsterdam
    The University of Amsterdam or the UvA is a public research university located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Founded in 1632 as the Athenaeum Illustre by the scholars Gerardus Vossius and Caspar Barlaeus, it is the third-oldest university in the Netherlands...
    
    

• Hungary
  Hungary
  Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
  
  
  • Corvinus University of Budapest
    Corvinus University of Budapest
    The Corvinus University of Budapest is one of the most prestigious Hungarian universities located in Budapest, Hungary. The university offers degrees in multiple disciplines, but it is characterised by its programmes in economics and management. -History:...
    
    

• England
  England
  England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
  
  
  • Cranfield University
    Cranfield University
    Cranfield University is a British postgraduate university based on two campuses, with a research-oriented focus. The main campus is at Cranfield, Bedfordshire and the second is the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom based at Shrivenham, Oxfordshire. The main campus is unique in the United...
    
    
  • London Business School
    London Business School
    London Business School is an international business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London, located in central London, beside Regent's Park...
    
    
  • Manchester Business School
    Manchester Business School
    Manchester Business School is the largest department of the University of Manchester in Manchester, England. According to Bloomberg Business Week's ranking of the world's best business schools the MBS MBA is ranked third in the world...
    
     (University of Manchester
    University of Manchester
    The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...
    
    )
  • European Business School London
    European Business School London
    European Business School London is a constituent school of Regent's College and is located in Regent's Park in central London, England...
    
    

• Italy
  Italy
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
  
  
  • Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
    Bocconi University
    Bocconi University is a private university located in central Milan, beside Parco Ravizza. Bocconi provides undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate education, in addition to a range of double degree programs, in the fields of economics, management, finance and law. According to many university...
    
    

• Japan
  Japan
  Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
  
  
  • Nagoya University
    Nagoya University
    Nagoya University is one of the most prestigious universities in Japan. It can be seen in the several rankings such as shown below.-General Rankings:...
    
     of Commerce & Business

• Israel
  Israel
  The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
  
  • Tel Aviv University
    Tel Aviv University
    Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...
    
    

• Mexico
  Mexico
  The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
  
  
  • Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
    Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
    The Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México , commonly known as ITAM, is a private Ph.D.-granting research university located in Mexico City, Mexico...
    
    
  • Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

• Norway
  Norway
  Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
  
  
  • Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration

• New Zealand
  New Zealand
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
  
  
  • University of Otago
    University of Otago
    The University of Otago in Dunedin is New Zealand's oldest university with over 22,000 students enrolled during 2010.The university has New Zealand's highest average research quality and in New Zealand is second only to the University of Auckland in the number of A rated academic researchers it...
    
    

• Peru
  Peru
  Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
  
  
  • Escuela Superior de Administración de Negócios

• Poland
  Poland
  Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
  
  
  • Warsaw School of Economics
    Warsaw School of Economics
    Warsaw School of Economics is the oldest economic university in Poland.The Warsaw School of Economics was founded in 1906 as a private school under the name August Zieliński Private Trade Courses for Men. On 30 July 1919 it became a separate legal entity and was granted the status of an...
    
    

• Portugal
  Portugal
  Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
  
  
  • Universidade Nova de Lisboa

• Russia
  Russia
  Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
  
  
  • Graduate School of Management (St. Petersburg State University)
    Graduate School of Management (St. Petersburg State University)
    The Graduate School of Management, GSOM is one of the 22 schools of Saint Petersburg State University. It was founded in 1993 as School of Management later renamed to preserve consistency into Faculty of Management...
    
    

• Czech Republic
  Czech Republic
  The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
  
  
  • University of Economics, Prague
    University of Economics, Prague
    The University of Economics, Prague, is a public university located in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the largest university in the field of economics, business and information technologies in the Czech Republic with almost 20,000 students in its bachelor, masters and doctoral programmes.-Schools...
    
    

• Sweden
  Sweden
  Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
  
  
  • Stockholm School of Economics
    Stockholm School of Economics
    The Stockholm School of Economics or Handelshögskolan i Stockholm is one of Northern Europe's leading business schools. Its Masters in Management program is ranked no. 2 in Northern Europe and no. 13 in Europe by the Financial Times...
    
    

• Switzerland
  Switzerland
  Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
  
  
  • Universität St. Gallen

• Turkey
  Turkey
  Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
  
  
  • Koc University
    Koç University
    Koç University is a private, non-profit institution, founded in 1993 and located in Istanbul, Turkey. One of the top universities in Turkey, it is supported by the financial resources of the Vehbi Koç Foundation, set up by Vehbi Koç, a leading Turkish businessman, “to serve humanity by increasing...
    
    

• Venezuela
  Venezuela
  Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
  
  
  • Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración
    Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración
    The Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración is a private non-profit Venezuelan business school with campuses in Caracas, Maracaibo and Valencia. It was founded in 1965...
    
    

FGV Online

FGV Online, created in 2000, is an online universitary program. FGV Online serves undergraduate, graduate and MBA students, executives and entrepreneurs, and corporate universities developing e-learning projects.

The program is committed to disseminating knowledge generated at the various FGV schools and research institutes. The method of FGV Online includes support from video, animations and learning games. Besides conventional media − booklet and CD-ROM −, distance courses rely on ICTs such as satellite broadcast closed-circuit TV, videoconferencing and the Internet, to stimulate interaction between the students and the lecturer-tutor and enabling knowledge reconstruction.

The FGV Online Program offers the following distance learning modes:

• Executive MBA in Project Management
  Project management
  Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...
  
   (in partnership with the University of California at Irvine
  University of California, Irvine
  The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...
  
  );
• Distance Executive MBA in Business Administration (with emphasis on Management
  Management
  Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
  
  , Marketing
  Marketing
  Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...
  
  , Human Resources
  Human resources
  Human resources is a term used to describe the individuals who make up the workforce of an organization, although it is also applied in labor economics to, for example, business sectors or even whole nations...
  
   and the Environment
  Natural environment
  The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species....
  
  );
• Graduate degree in Business Administration, Private Law
  Private law
  Private law is that part of a civil law legal system which is part of the jus commune that involves relationships between individuals, such as the law of contracts or torts, as it is called in the common law, and the law of obligations as it is called in civilian legal systems...
  
   and Enterprise
  Business
  A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
  
   (graduate programs based on satellite technology);
• Technical Degree in Remote Managerial Processes (intended mainly for professionals already active in the market);
• Executive Series Courses (set of four short-term courses);
• Free Courses (extension and update courses addressing specific topics);
• Customized Training, medium-term courses intended for the internal public at firms/corporate universities − under the in-company course model.

Corporate Courses

FGV Corporate Courses Program was launched by the IDE

Instituto de Desenvolvimento Educacional

The Instituto de Desenvolvimento Educacional is a Brazilian private institution established in 2003 to develop and manage a single distribution network at the domestic at international levels for the Continued Education programs developed by the various Fundação Getúlio Vargas schools and...

 in 2005, with the objective of offering organizations − public and private sector companies, governmental bodies, and associations − the educational opportunities developed by FGV schools and institutions.

These corporate courses are customized in order to meet each organization's specific needs. Programs may be presential or mixed with distance learning tools. Every customized course must be approved by the Fundação Getulio Vargas schools and institutes. The Corporate Courses Program also relies on support from a Board of FGV Deans that guides and evaluates actions.

The FGV Corporate Courses Program has also recently started operations in Angola

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

, through FGV faculty members who are delivering customized Administration and Economics courses there.

FGV Corporate Courses has recently offered programs in the following areas, among others:

• Administration: Strategic Management, Marketing Management, Production Management, HR Management, Financial Management, Tax Management, Environmental Management, Cooperatives Management, Public Policy, Information Technology, Negotiations, International Negotiations, Leadership, Project Management, Hospital and Health Management, and Film and TV Management.
• Economics and Finance: Economic and Industrial Analyses, Financial Valuation, Risk Assessments, Economics for Journalists, and Personal Assets Management.
• Law: Arbitration and Mediation, Environmental Law, Contracts Law, Business Law, Civil Procedural Law, Labor Law, Corporations Law, Stock Markets Law, Third Sector Law, Tax Law, Public-Private Partnerships, Intellectual Property, Liability, Electric Power Industry Regulation, and Corporate Bankruptcy and Recovery.

External links

• Fundação Getulio Vargas main site
• Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo
• Some Publications of FGV
• FGV Online
• FGV Corporate Courses official website

See also

• Brazil University Rankings
• Universities and Higher Education in Brazil
  Universities and higher education in Brazil
  Brazil adopts a mixed system of public and private funded universities. Usually public funded universities offer the best quality education, and they are 100% financed by the government...