Nyenrode Business University

Geschiedenis

Nyenrode Business Universiteit, formerly spelled as Nijenrode, is a Dutch business school and one of four private universities in the Netherlands. Founded in 1946, it is located on a large estate in the town of Breukelen, between Amsterdam and Utrecht.AcademicsThe full-time and part-time MBA programs include a two-week module at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management near Chicago. In addition to Kellogg, Nyenrode has close connections with the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Nyenrode was cofounder of the China Europe International Business School. Nyenrode's international MBA program attracts students from all around the world. Nyenrode has a selection process that involves taking a Graduate Management Admissions Test and a selection interview. The students attending Nyenrode are of diverse nationalities, therefore most teaching is in English.RankingsIn the Financial Times Ranking for European Business Schools (2013), Nyenrode was given an overall position of 35th. In the Financial Times Ranking for executive education programs (2014) Nyenrode achieved 48th place for open programmes and 76th for custom programmes. The Masters in Management MSc was given an overall position of 64th on the Financial Times Global Ranking for Masters in Management (2013).