INSEAD
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INSEAD, a contraction of "Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires" (lit. 'European Institute of Business Administration')[10] is a non-profit business school that maintains campuses in Europe (Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE), and North America (San Francisco, United States). As a graduate-only business school, INSEAD offers a full-time Master of Business Administration, an executive MBA (EMBA), a Master of Finance, a PhD in management, a Master in Management,[11] Business Foundations Post-Graduate degrees, and a variety of executive education programs.
Institut européen d'administration des affaires | |
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Motto | The Business School for the World |
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Type | Grande école de commerce et de management (Private research university Business school) |
Established | 1957 |
Accreditation | Triple accreditation:[1] AACSB;[1] AMBA;[1] EQUIS[1] |
Academic affiliations | Conférence des Grandes Écoles;[2] Alliance Sorbonne Université[3] INSEAD-Wharton Alliance[4][5] |
Endowment | €355 million[6] |
Chairman | Andreas Jacobs[7] |
Dean | Ilian Mihov[8] |
Academic staff | 250+ 98% PhD.;[9] 22% female;[9] 91% international[9] |
Students | ~1,540 (~1,000 in MBA) (~300 in EMBA) (~130 in MIM) (~30 in MFin) (~80 in Ph.D.) |
Location | |
Language | English-only & French-only instruction |
Website | insead |
Its MBA, taught in English, is consistently ranked among the best in the world.[12][13] The MBA has produced the second most CEOs of the world’s 500 largest companies, second only to Harvard Business School's,[14] and the sixth most billionaires.[15]
Despite its relatively small size as a specialist, graduate-only university, INSEAD educated 2nd most C-suite executives of listed companies in the world's 19 biggest economies, only second to Harvard University and ahead of University of Oxford.[16] INSEAD is among the top 20 universities globally that produced the most of the world's ultra high-net-worth individuals .[16][17]
INSEAD has a strong reputation for entrepreneurship. In 2021, INSEAD is ranked #4 globally in PitchBook's ranking of MBA programs for founders and #7 for female founders: about 700 alumni of the school founded more than 600 companies, which in total raised $23 billion.[18] As of 2022, 15% of European unicorns were founded by an INSEAD alumnus, making the school the #1 unicorn producing university in the continent.[19] As of 2022, Harvard, Stanford and INSEAD are the only 3 universities ever to top Poets and Quants’s list of most-funded startup by MBA students. [20] Notable companies founded by INSEAD alumni include Admiral Group,[21] Wise,[22] Nubank,[23] MongoDB,[24] Asklepios Kliniken,[25] L’Occitane,[26] Gorillas, Blablacar,[27] Tudou,[28] Ecovadis[29] and Business Insider.
The school also educated four heads of state/governments,[30][31] a few heads of legislature, dozens of cabinet members, and dozens of members of legislatures of countries around the world.
INSEAD admits no more than 12% of students of the same nationality[32] and requires each student to speak two languages on entry and three languages by graduation.[33]