ESIC, Business & Marketing School holds a prominent position in undergraduate, postgraduate and executive business training in Spain, with a geographical presence on a national and international level, fruit of over forty years dedicated to spreading knowledge by and for the type of professionals sought after by companies.
It currently has over 4,000 students participating in programmes and more than 25,000 alumni, which constitutes an important networking of undoubtable value. Our way of understanding training implicates the transferring of knowledge which allows company managers and executives to obtain a clear competitive advantage.
This is only achieved through permanent contact with business reality, together with the R+D which all educational institutions must develop, and the academic rigour which blends all these ingredients.
In order to provide the training with consistency, the commitment of ESIC provides the most current principles and techniques, orientated towards efficiency in management together with basic ethical criteria. ESIC bases its training activity on enriching dialogue which different points of view provide among, on the one hand, the business people and managers who enter its classrooms and, on the other hand, the actual teachers and speakers who are also professionals with wide-ranging management experience.
Therefore those participating in the management programme strengthen their professional ties through the rest of the participants, who represent an interesting and varied business group. We offer programmes, seminars and specific courses which are tailor-made and which allow for continuous training throughout the year through work meetings in which current affairs are discussed.
Training people is our passionate objective. We grow and progress with the company, we stimulate its development, we offer answers which are only possible through research and analysis carried out by our great team of professionals and trainers, who live the reality and the needs of the ever changing business world.
Our MissionThe training of professionals capable of setting up companies or organizations, and carrying out, with responsibility and efficiency, managerial tasks in any of the functional corporate areas with special emphasis in marketing at both the national and international level.
The spreading in Spanish society of a culture of ethical and rational business values, opening new channels of communication between academic and business activity while fostering the students´ business vocation (undergraduate, graduate, and executive education).
Stimulating scientific and technical research in the fields of management and marketing. Encouraging not only the work carried out by its own members, but also providing means of facilitating this research activity to outside members, national and international, who might contribute with new insights into the development of these areas.
| Year | Description |
|---|---|
| 1965 | ESIC is founded as a Business School known as “Higher School of Sales Engineering” offering Undergraduate and Graduate Programs. |
| 1968 | ESIC creates its Career Placement and International Relations Departments (first agreements with other foreign Universities and Business Schools). First graduation(graduate) with the then Princess of Spain and today Queen of Spain Sofia as patroness. |
| 1969 | The International Management Institute is founded by ESIC. |
| 1970 | "ESIC MARKET" the International Business and Finance magazine is launched. |
| 1971 | New undergraduate curriculum. Degree in Business Management and Marketing. |
| 1972 | Alumni Association is founded. |
| 1973 | ESIC sets up its own press. |
| 1977 | Permanent Training Institute for Executives is created, (Executive Education). |
| 1982 | The first Aster Awards are given. Master´s programs are started. |
| 1984 | First strategic plan of ESIC. |
| 1986 | ESIC opens its new building in Madrid (El Viso). |
| 1987 | Joint venture with the French Chamber of Commerce to establish ESCP-EAP in Spain. ESIC-Valencia opens. |
| 1989 | ESIC becomes a founder member of the AEEDE (Association of Spanish Business Schools). |
| 1992 | ESIC opens its new center in Pozuelo de Alarcon, Madrid. |
| 1993 | New center in Zaragoza opened in collaboration with the Caja Inmaculada of Zaragoza. This center offers graduate programs (GESCO and COEX) and a diploma in Business Sales Management and Marketing. |
| 1995 | First Marketing Summer Courses in collaboration with Florida Atlantic University. First edition of "Business Marketing Game". |
| 1996 | New center in Pamplona opened in collaboration with the Marketing Club of Navarra. This center offers graduate programs (GESCO, COEX,DRHO, MDF) and the diploma in Business and Sales Management and Marketing. Signing of agreement with Institute of Electronic Commerce and Direct Marketing (ICEMD). |
| 1997 | New center in Seville opened in collaboration with the Prensa Española. This center offers graduate programs (GESCO, COEX, DRHO, MDF) and a diploma in Business Management and Marketing. New center opened in Santander in collaboration with CESINE. This center offers one graduate program. Spanish magazine in market research "Revista Española de Investigacion de Mercados is launched by ESIC. |
| 1998 | New buildings in Madrid (Executive Education), Pamplona, Seville, and Valencia are opened. New emphasis on agreements with universities and business schools in Europe and America. New center in Malaga opened in collaboration with CAJAMAR, where two graduate programs (GESCO and CSAF)are offered. Num. 100 ESIC MARKET magazine. ESIC is authorized by the Community of Madrid to offer a Bachelor in Business Administration and a Master´s in Business Administration FAU at ESIC-Madrid. Creation of “Permanent Training Classes” with PricewaterhouseCoopers and the economic newspaper Cinco Días. |
| 1999 | ESIC is authorized to offer its first official degree program in Business Administration as a branch study center for Rey Juan Carlos University. ESIC is authorized to teach FAU official degree programs "Bachelor in Business Administration" and "Master in Business Administration" at ESIC Pamplona. ESIC, Valencia is authorized to offer the official degree program in Business Administration (ADE) as a study center of the Miguel Hernandez University. Start-up of ESIC- PricewaterhouseCoopers Company Incubator |
| 2000 | Creation of the International Language Center of ESIC (ILC). |
| 2001 | New center in Curitiba, Brazil is opened. ESIC is authorized to offer official Degree Programs in Advertising and Public Relations and Market Research Techniques like a study center of Rey Juan Carlos University. |
| 2002 | First edition of ESIC's Global Marketing Game. |
| 2003 | ESIC, Valencia is authorized as a study center of Miguel Hernandez University to offer official degree programs in Advertising and Public Relations. Incorporation of ESIC-Bilbao, offering EMBA, GESCO and MDF programs, in collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce of Bilbao. Affiliation of ESIC to CLADEA (Latin American Council of Schools of Administration). Agreement between ESIC and the International Management School to offer in |
| 2004 | ESIC enters the International AACSB (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) and becomes a member of IAI (Institute of Intangible Assets Analysis). |
| 2006 | International agreement with CEIM in the "Training Project . Fundación Santo Domingo (Colombia)". |
| 2007 | Accreditation of our MBA´s by EMBA Council. ESIC gets the quality certificate ISO 9001Norm in MBA´s, Master´s, Executive Education, Languages and technological platform learning. |
| 2008 | Certificate of ISO 9001-2000 for Graduate Programs, Executive Education, Languages and Technology Platforms. |
| 2009 | Adoption of the official grade for the ANECA in Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations and Administration and Management. |
- América Economía 2008 MBA Ranking 13th best business school in Europe.
- Guia Vicê S/A (Brasil) 2007 MBA Ranking 7th best business school in Brazil.
- América Economía 2008 Executive Education Ranking 12th best international business school.
- El Mundo 2008 specialized Master´s 1st in Marketing.
- 1st in International Commerce.
- 1st in Human Resources and Organization.
- 2nd in Advertising and Public Relations.
- Estudio Merco 2008 Spanish Monitor of Corporate Reputation 4th place among Spanish business schools.
- EMBA Council Executive MBA Council
- AEEDE Spanish Association of Business Administration Schools
- EFMD European Foundation for Management Development
- AACSB International The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
- CLADEA Latin American Council of Schools of Administration
- AECE Spanish Association of Electronic Commerce
- FECEMD Spanish Federation of Electronic Commerce and Direct Marketing
- IAI Institute of Intangible Assets Analysis
- Spanish Association of Quality
- Excellence Club in Excellence Club Management
- International Certification of Quality ISO 9001
- ESIC has been certified by ISO 9001 Norm in all of its graduate, undergraduate specialized Master´s, Executive Education, and language programs as well as in the programs included in technological platforms. In our desire to improve daily, we started a Project for On-going Improvement which has as its objective to express in the entire school the processes and resources for implementing a quality policy aimed at excellence. The obtaining of this certification has meant an important recognition of the effort undertaken and the work to be done yet.
- Cel Accreditation ESIC has accredited its Simulation Methodology with the Cel Accreditation, granted by EFMD.
- Certificación Q*For. The academic area of ESIC, Executive Education, receives annually an Assessment of Quality for Training Organisms
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