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One of the best European Business Schools IE Business School was founded as an entrepreneurial project en 1973 and, since its inception, has developed numerous initiatives that drive innovation and change in business and that generate employment, collective wealth and social well-being. The school has a city campus in Madrid with a faculty of over 400 professors. Our faculty currently gives classes to students from 73 different countries on the master, doctorate, and Executive Education programs. Respected publications like the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Economist recognize IE as among the 20 best business schools in Europe. IE's strongly international atmosphere extends across the world with its network of 35,000 alumni who currently hold executive positions in over 100 different countries, and a network of local offices in over 15 countries including the USA, Russia, China, India, Singapore and the major Latin American capitals. Both our student body and our faculty are eminently international- more than 80% of the students on the International MBA and more than 40% of our professors are foreigners and have international experience. What is more, IE is one of the founding members of the Sumaq Alliance, the network of leading Spanish and Latin American business schools,and also maintains links and agreements with, among others,The Fletcher School at Tufts, MIT, and Northwestern School of Law, with whom we offer joint programs and dual degrees.
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