Solvay Business School

Infobox_University
name = SOLVAY BUSINESS SCHOOL


established = 1903
president = Alain Eraly
location = Brussels
country = Belgium
students = around 2000
programmes = 20 programmes in Executive Education
website = [http://www.solvay.edu www.solvay.edu]

The Solvay Business School (SBS) is a management school accredited by the European Quality Improvement System [ [http://www.efmd.org/html/Accreditations/cont_detail.asp?id=040929rpku&aid=041029wupz&tid=1&ref=ind EQUIS Accreditation] ] (since 2005) and Association of MBAs, and is part of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, in Belgium. It was founded in 1903 by Ernest Solvay as the "Ecole de Commerce Solvay". In 2003, it was re-named the "Solvay Business School". More than 2,000 students attend some thirty programmes at the School today, including a Bachelor 's Degree in Management Sciences and a Master of Science in Management, the Solvay MBA and more than thirty Executive Education programmes. Its current president is Alain Eraly.

Since 1990, the Solvay Business School has developed a network of more than 70 partners in 32 countries, with whom some 160 student exchanges are organised each year. The Solvay Business School is the only school in Belgium to oblige its students to undertake a six-month exchange programme in a university abroad. Such exchanges take place principally in Europe, within the framework of the SOCRATES and ERASMUS programmes, but also in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Egypt, Israel, South Africa, India, Korea, Japan, Thailand, China, Taiwan and Singapore.

The "Union of Solvay Business School Alumni" [ [http://www.sbsalumni.be Alumnis' website] ] is an association that represents all those men and women who have graduated from the Solvay Business School or one of its satellite institutions. The considerable recent expansion of the SBS alumni thus also reflects the SBS’s own success. Within the particular context of Belgium, a country marked in the past by religious and ideological rifts, alumni associations play an extremely important role, especially for the universities.

Rankings

* Financial Times Rankings: → 2006: The Solvay Business School is ranked 39th in the European Business School ranking [ [http://rankings.ft.com/rankings/ebs European Business School ranking] ]

→ The same year, the Master of Science in Management is ranked 14th in the European Masters in Management ranking [ [http://rankings.ft.com/rankings/masters European Masters in Management ranking] ]

→ 2007: The Solvay Business School is ranked by the Financial Times European Business School Ranking [ [http://rankings.ft.com/rankings/ebs F.T. European Business School Rankings] ]

tudent Society and Office

The Solvay Business School has a very active student society, called "Cercle Solvay" [ [http://www.cercle-solvay.be Cercle Solvay] ] and student office, called "Bureau Etudiant Solvay" [ [http://www.besolvay.com Bureau Etudiant Solvay] ]

Notable alumni

* Hubert Ansiaux, governor of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) from 1957 until 1971.
* Didier Bellens, CEO of Belgacom.
* Rik Daems, politician
* Maurice Frère, governor of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) from 1944 until 1957
* Christian Jourquin, Chief Executive Officer of Solvay
* François Narmon, former CEO of Dexia
* , Belgian politician
* , CEO of French-speaking public broadcast company RTBF
* , former President of the Banking Commission

References

External links

* All the details: [http://www.solvay.edu/ Solvay Business School]
* [http://www.solvay.edu/EN/Programmes/HowApply.php How to apply?]