Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School is the autonomous management school of the University of Ghent and K.U. Leuven. It was founded in 1953 by André Vlerick, a professor and entrepreneur, and has been Belgium’s leading management school for over half a century now. In recent years, the School has been steadily climbing the international rankings in the Financial Times and the Economist, and is in the process of achieving its ambition of figuring among the top 10 in Europe. The School has unique expertise in two research fields: ‘innovation and entrepreneurship’ and ‘doing business in Europe’. In addition, together with other European schools, it has pioneered research into ethically responsible enterprise. The talent within the school is divided between three campuses: students and managers can operate in Ghent, Leuven or St. Petersburg (Russia).

The School’s management courses meet the highest quality standards. Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School is one of a select group of institutions to hold the three main international accreditations: the American AACSB, the British AMBA and the European EQUIS quality label. The School offers MBA and Masters courses, as well as general and specialised courses for managers and custom-designed training for individual companies. It has over 10,000 active alumni in more than 75 different countries.

The goal of this international and academic management school is to help professionalise management and encourage entrepreneurship. The School’s core values are synthesis, entrepreneurship, integrity and autonomy, respect for diversity and customer focus.

University of St. Gallen

Dufourstrasse 50

9000 St. Gallen

SWITZERLAND

Tel: +41 71 243 40 62

www.unisg.ch

The University of St. Gallen for Business Administration, Economics, Law and Social Sciences (HSG), founded in 1898, concentrates on the education of tomorrow’s leaders in business, public administration, and law. The HSG, which became a “business university” in 1911, continues to this day to pursue the goal of providing for its students a practical-oriented education. In its teaching it puts great emphasis on systems theory and the importance of a broad approach to all questions. This Swiss University, which is well-known in the German speaking part of Europe, has more than 20 institutes and research groups. A major part of the input for the MBA-FSI is provided by the research centre I.VW-HSG (The Institute of Insurance Economics), an international and well-respected centre that focuses on strategic topics in today’s financial services industry: strategic management topics, E-commerce and process solutions, integrated risk management, etc.

HEC Montréal

3000 Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine
Montreal, Quebec, H3T 2A7

Canada
www.hec.ca

Being Canada’s first management school, HEC Montréal celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2007. Since its inception, the school has always been one of the pioneers in offering high quality business education in North America. As a result, HEC Montréal is the first North American school to hold the three accreditations AACSB international, EQUIS and AMBA, and the first non-European school to receive the EQUIS accreditation.

With close to 12,000 students, of whom 2,800 are non-Canadian visa students and permanent residents (24% of total enrolment), HEC Montréal has an active worldwide network of 57,000 alumni. HEC Montréal counts 240 career professors, making up a teaching faculty of unparalleled size and multidisciplinarity.

HEC Montréal was rated as one of the 10 best MBA programs outside the United States, according to the MBA 2006 and 2004 classifications by BusinessWeek, and one of the top 100 in the world by the Wall Street Journal in the 2004 edition of the Guide to the Top Business Schools and the school also figured among the top twenty in the Forbes magazine international ranking (2003 and 2005).

Associated partners

Today’s financial services professionals require specialised knowledge and a broad array of management skills. Accordingly, we carefully select organisations which can contribute to the overall strength and quality of the MBA-FSI programme, to ensure that we provide a truly international perspective of management, in particular with regard to financial services firms. That’s why the MBA-FSI has established a partnership with the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in China.

China Europe International Business School

699 Hongfeng Road

Shanghai 201206

China

www.ceibs.edu

The China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) was established in 1994. CEIBS’ main objective is to contribute to the economic development of China and its business communities. It does this by offering the latest knowledge and a thorough understanding of current concepts and practices in international management to MBA students and to managers and senior executives of companies operating in, or planning to enter China. In only ten years, CEIBS has become the leading business school in China. Today, the school is the only EQUIS-accredited business school in Mainland China. CEIBS is particularly well positioned to confirm its leadership in state-of-the-art, practice-oriented international management education in China, and to become one of the top business schools in Asia.

The MBA-FSI module in Shanghai is organised at the campus of CEIBS. This location not only helps participants to understand the true challenges of doing business in Asia, but also provides a very useful context of China’s growing role in the global financial services industry.

Quality and accreditations

All institutions involved with the MBA-FSI have been awarded the EQUIS and AACSB quality labels. The European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) is an international system of strategic audit and accreditation for business schools that have clearly demonstrated a high level of international education, top quality faculty, and successful development of corporate relationships. The AACSB is the American equivalent of the EQUIS accreditation, awarded by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. These quality labels not only demonstrate the strength of the two organising universities and its associated partners in their national environment but also their ability to meet the international standards set for leading quality education providers.

Prof. Dr. Roland Van Dierdonck, former Dean of

Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School,

receives the EQUIS accreditation

certificate from Gerard Van Schaik,

president EFMD

In 2001, the MBA-FSI obtained the AMBA accreditation. This confirms that the programme is now officially accredited via the quality standards of the Association of MBAs.

The Association of MBAs is unique in representing the interests of MBA students and graduates, leading business schools, and MBA employers. The Association has acted in the interests of these stakeholder groups for over 30 years, promoting the MBA as the leading management qualification. At the heart of their independent accreditation service is their commitment to management education and development. Their commitment is market-driven and international. The ultimate aim of the Association of MBAs is to strengthen the quality of MBA programmes in a rapidly expanding global market to ensure that companies are able to access highly educated and internationally adept executives.

Since the programme is organized only every 2 years, it's not eligible to be ranked among other MBA programmes (cfr. Wall St. Journal, Financial Times, etc. rankings).