One of the world's top graduate business schools, INSEAD, has campuses in France, Singapore, San Francisco, and the Middle East (Abu Dhabi). Founded in 1957, INSEAD is an acronym for Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires.
Today, INSEAD is recognized around the world as one of the top business schools on the planet. The school has 165 faculty members from 42 countries, with more than 1,500 students in its various degree programs each year. The school also has more than 11,000 executives that participate in its executive education programs each year.
INSEAD was established in 1955 when the Paris Chamber of Commerce decided to start a European business school. Four years later, it took in its first MBA students. In 1960, 52 students from 14 different countries graduated from the school's MBA program. In 1968, INSEAD began offering its executive program for the first time. The school's Ph.D. program was launched in 1989.
The school opened its Asian campus in Singapore in 2000 and its Middle East campus in Abu Dhabi in 2010. In 2020, INSEAD announced a new hub located in San Francisco, CA to establish a North American presence.
The school's main campus in France is located in Fontainebleau near Paris. The second campus, located in Asia, is in Singapore in the Buona Vista district, 15 minutes from the financial district. The third campus, in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, was inaugurated in 2010.
INSEAD offers a variety of graduate and doctoral programs. In addition to the standard curricula offered below, the school also offers customized programs in collaboration with corporations seeking to grant executive education to their managers.
INSEAD offers a 10-month, fully-accelerated term of study for an MBA with intake in January and August. Students are required to take core subjects including finance, economics, accounting, business ethics, and marketing, as well as electives from a pool of 75 different course offerings. Roughly 94% of graduates were employed in their field three months after graduation.
