IE Business School

Instituto de Empresa (IE) is a fast-growing private academic institution set up in 1973 by business leaders and academics. It has expanded its faculty rapidly in recent years and continues to do so. As well as having strong links with Latin America, IE is rapidly expanding its global reach. It also has good links with industry with a commitment to pragmatic business-relevance research and in-company training. Like many other schools in Spain, IE is a strong advocate of the case method and group work and the MBA is a high-pressure programme.

In 2007 IE acquired an 80% stake in SEK University in Segovia, a historic town near Madrid, now known as IE University. The acquisition has provided a new phase in IE’s strategic development, adding new fields of knowledge to its portfolio, such as law, architecture and psychology among others at undergraduate and postgraduate level.