ALBA Graduate Business School

Based in the seaside town of Vouliagmeni, in Athens, Greece, ALBA Graduate Business School is fast growing graduate business school. Founded in 1992, it is a non-state, not-for-profit, research-driven institution. The School maintains very close links with the industry, as it operates under the auspices of SEV Hellenic Federation of Enterprises, the Hellenic Management Association (ΕΕΔΕ), and the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ΕΒΕΑ). In addition, ALBA Graduate Business School is an association of corporations and institutional organizations, currently numbering 86 members.

Vision and Mission

Our vision is to become one of the leading research-driven Graduate Business Schools in Europe on the basis of excellence in teaching and intellectual impact on the business world, attracting outstanding faculty and students from all over the world. Our mission is to educate visionary leaders of tomorrow who will act as agents of change and help shape the future business world by pushing forward the frontiers of knowledge related to the management of business organizations and making that knowledge relevant to practitioners. Generating and disseminating knowledge represent our twin objectives.

Faculty

Our Faculty consists of a core team of resident scholars with extensive teaching, research and consulting experience at an international career. It is our strategic choice to engage leading scholars from top Business Schools worldwide as visiting professors in all Programs, for a large proportion of teaching.

Internationally Accredited Programs

All of our academic programs are internationally accredited by AMBA (MBAs) and EFMB (MSc's). We currently offer the following academic programs:

• Full time MBA

• Professional MBA

• MBA in Shipping

• MBA in Banking (in collaboration with the Hellenic Bank Association)

• ALBA - Eurobank EFG MBA in Financial Services

• MSc in Strategic Human Resource Management

• MSc in Finance

Executive Education

We are the leaders of high-quality executive education in South-East Europe meeting the needs of dozens of large corporate clients. Our wide range of programs and seminars suit organizations at different levels of growth and individuals at different stages of their career. These programs can range from open enrollment seminars to customized solutions such as Leadership Development Programs, Customized Management Programs and Corporate MBAs.

Highlights

• The MSc in Finance program is the CFA Partner in Greece. The Chartered Financial Analysts Institute is the global, not-for-profit association of investment professionals that awards the CFA and CIPM designations. The Program has laso been selected the last three (3) years (2007, 2008 and 2009) by the Financial Times Special Report on "Financial Training", along with the most renowned Business Schools in Europe, North America and Asia
• The Full Time MBA teams have won the most Awards at the European Business Plan of the Year Competition in the last nine years, since the School started participating in it, competing against the top European Business Schools
• ALBA Alumni are leaders in a broad range of organizations worldwide forming a culturally diverse group in countries like Australia, Botswana, China, France, Indonesia, Italy, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, USA
• Our Career Services and placement records are unmatched in Greece.
• Our students have the opportunity to build international networks of professional and social contacts, and benefit from the exchange of knowledge, experience and cultural insights, through our steadily growing network of partners across the world. Partner schools include Bordeaux Business School, EM Lyon, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, XLRI Jamshedpur, MIP Politecnico di Milano, University of San Diego, Sabanci Universitesi, and others.
• ALBA regularly establishes scholarship programs for eligible Greek and International students in collaboration with companies, organizations and associations (e.g. WISTA Hellas, The Times Newspaper, TITAN SA, Novo Nordisk A/S, EANDA, Athens & Piraeus Bar Associations)