EGADE

EGADE ("Escuela de Graduados en Administracion y Direccion de Empresas") is the Graduate School of Business at ITESM ("Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey", or "Monterrey Tech"), a university system with 33 campuses in 26 cities in Mexico.

EGADE was created more than 30 years ago in Monterrey, 180 miles south of the US-Mexican border, which has been classified by "Fortune" magazine as Latin America's most attractive city for business and being the business and industrial heart of Mexico. EGADE Campus Monterrey is top 10 institution in the world for business, also a second campus was located in the metropolitan area of Mexico City.

The institution also maintains nine satellite locations in Latin America, more than 1,500 distance learning sites, and seven foreign offices in North America, South America, Asia and Europe. It has an enrollment of 1,100 graduate students, an alumni network of over 5,600, 77 full-time faculty. More than 78% of full-time students are international representing a total of 22 nationalities. EGADE's alliances with 130 universities in 31 countries and students may choose to participate in exchange programs, double-degree programs or academic trips.

EGADE offers the following master's degrees:
*Business Administration
*Finance
*Marketing
*Manufacturing Leadership
*International Business
*MBA specialized in Global Business and Strategy
*Global eManagement (offered with 10 leading universities)
*OneMBA (offered with five top-ranked business schools spanning four continents).
*Ph.D. in Management
*Executive Education Programs
*Specialization programs (Services Management, Financial Management, and Business Environment in Latin America).

The MBA curriculum comprises 15 courses. Students in the full-time MBA obtain the degree in 16 months.

Since 1995, EGADE has grown from an initial offering of one academic program, with 650 students, to six Masters courses, one doctorate in Management (PhD), two post-masters certificates and other top management programs, which together reach more than 1,400 business executives in Mexico, Central and South America, North America and Europe every year.

EGADE has been accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business {"AACSB") in the USA and the European Quality Improvement System ("EQUIS") in Europe.

It has been ranked first in Latin America by América Economia magazine, a Dow Jones publication, for four consecutive years. The School also has the highest position among Latin American business schools in the most recent Financial Times rankings.

The No.1 business school in Latin America, and No.7 in the world, according to The Wall Street Journal, 2006. In 2002, EGADE was included for the first time in this ranking, achieving the No.27, the highest position ever given to a first time school. Among the top 20 business schools outside the United States, EGADE is the first and only Latin American school included in the BusinessWeek bi-annual MBA ranking, 2002. Consistently among the leading business school in Latin American (AmericaEconomía magazine, 1998-2003) The highest ranking position among Latin American universities in the World's Top 100 Business Schools (Financial Times, 2000- 2002) EGADE's MBA rated among the top 15% of the world “Beyond Grey Pinstripes” survey, conducted by The World Resources Institute and The Aspen Institute Initiative for Social Innovation through Business, 2003, 2001. The best business school in Mexico (Expansión magazine, 2004) The No. 1 business school in Latin America (topmba.com, 2003) One of the Top 50 MBAs in the world (Handelsblatt, 2001)

According to America Economia 2007 MBA ranking the EGADE Business School at the Monterrey Campus is in the top ten of Latin-American’s business schools. Its campuses Zona Centro and Metropolitano are also part of the top 20.

Faculty Members

Professors in Campus

Barraza Enríquez, Gabriel.
Dieck Assad, María de LourdesGarza González, Salvador.Gómez Cavazos, Irma Adriana.Gómez-Tagle Rangel, Rocío.González Lozano, Sandra P. Gutiérrez Garza, Nicolás.
Ibarra Salazar, JorgeIbarra Yúnez, Alejandro Laszlo Jagerhorn, Alexander;Martinez Martinez, Carlos Ruy;Peña González, Jesús;Rocha Gonzalez, Jorge M; Rodríguez Guajardo, Raymundo Cruz; Viscencio Brambila, Héctor.

Visiting Professors

Aigner, Denis J. Arreola-Risa, AntonioGaray, Urbi Leibrock, Larry Rodríguez, Carlos M.

Frequent Professors

Abasolo Sotres, Ángel Vázquez Alanís, Gregorio Villalobos Rodríguez, Ángel Villarreal Lozano, Francisco JavierWong Boren, Adrián

Executive Professors

Contreras Corpus, Juan ManuelGonzález Zubieta, Rómulo
Guajardo Touché, JorgeLozano Cerda, ArturoPeón Lara, Feliciano Hiram
Santos de Hoyos, Alberto

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