IE Business School

IE Business School is the graduate business school of IE University in Madrid, Spain. It opened in 1973 as Instituto de Empresa, a private school associated with Diego del Alcazar, and later became IE University's graduate business arm. It is a specialist management school, not a comprehensive public university.

The portfolio is the MBA and International MBA, specialized master's in finance, marketing, management and related fields, and executive programs. Classes run at the Maria de Molina campus in Madrid; IE University also has a campus in Segovia. English is the working language of the full-time MBA and of many master's tracks.

Several thousand graduate and executive students enroll across programs. MBA and many master's classes are majority international, from more than 70 countries. Faculty combine research staff and practitioners. Alumni populate European and Latin American corporate management.

Degrees are professional master's and the MBA, with some joint programs inside IE. Teaching is case- and project-based on compact calendars rather than a long thesis master's. Funding is a mix of school scholarships and self- or sponsor-pay. Students live in Madrid and use the city's firms for internships and recruiting.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, IE Business School lists 2 graduate programs in business & management and finance & financial economics, all of them master's programs.