On Oct 20^th, 2016, Prof. Josep Franch, Dean of ESADE Business School, visited School of Economics and Management, Tongji University. Prof. Jin Fu’an, Director of SEM and Prof. CHEN Song, Deputy Dean warmly welcomed the distinguished guest.

On the basis of existing cooperation fields, the two parties explored further cooperation in bachelor and master double degree programs, short-term training programs, joint research, joint case study, and some other potential areas. In Jan 2012, the two parties signed the students exchange agreement on undergraduate level, and each party sent students every year to the host institution for exchange study.

As a world famous business school, ESADE Business School was founded in 1958, which has two campuses in Barcelona and Madrid. It is one of the earliest business schools which possess the distinguished Triple Crown Accreditation – AMBA, EQUIS and AACSB. It’s rankings in Financial Times are in upswing recent years, and it was ranked among the top 5 in the Best European Business School rankings 2015, together with London Business School, HEC Paris, INSEASD and the others. Furthermore, its Master of Finance Program was ranked the 6^th while Master of Management the 9^th worldwide.