Bocconi University
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The Bocconi University (Italian Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, UNI-BOCCONI) is a university located in Milan, Italy. It was founded in 1902.
History and Mission
The "Luigi Bocconi" University was established in 1902 with a generous endowment from Ferdinando Bocconi, a wealthy merchant who thereby meant to commemorate his son disappeared in battle overseas. Bocconi thus became the first Italian institution of higher education to grant a degree in economics.Since its inception, Bocconi has stood for liberalism, pluralism, and social and economic progress. While being a private institution, Bocconi has never meant to be an elite university. To the contrary, in order to achieve excellence, Bocconi has consistently promoted and practiced equality of opportunity among its many generations of students, by actively subsidizing the education of disadvantaged students. In the words of its first Rector and President, Leopoldo Sabbatini, a strenuosly democratic lawyer, Bocconi´s motto is to "promote harmony between school and life." In keeping with the ideals of its founders, Bocconi University seeks to address the research and education needs of the national, European, and global economic system, by assiduously favouring cultural progress, international exchange, and economic integration.
Therefore, the University promotes both economic advancement and civic values, by providing students with solid intellectual and professional training, so that they can contribute to the innovation and development of Italian and European businesses. Accordingly, Bocconi is committed to nurture both an analytical and an ethical mindset in its graduates. Bocconi views culture and science as the cornerstones for the moral and economic renewal of Italy.
Bocconi is a research university of international standing. By means of basic and applied research funded by national and supranational organizations, Bocconi makes its contribution to the progress of business and economic science. By partaking in a European and global network of international centres of economic knowledge, Bocconi exchanges faculty and cooperates on large projects with several like-minded European and American universities and business schools. By cultivating close relations with firms, agencies, and their management and officials, Bocconi costantly interacts with the business and economic environment to assess new issues, implement new techniques, and start new research endeavours.
Bocconi University conceives education as an ongoing process which does not end with graduation, but spans the entire professional life of an individual. To this aim, Bocconi provides integrated offerings in undergraduate, graduate, and post-experience education. Bocconi University grants BAs, MBAs and PhDs in Management, Economics, Statistics, and other disciplines. It also administers hundreds of advanced courses to managers and professionals in all realms of private and public management.
Bocconi is the best university in economics in Italy and is recognized as one of the best business school in Europe and in the world.(Financial Times)
Degree Programs
These are the graduate degree programs offered:
8 MSc degrees at the department of Business Administration
- General Management
- Marketing Management
- Organization and Information Technology Systems
- Accounting Corporate finance and Control
- Economics and Managementof Public Administration and International Institutions
- Economics and Management of Institutions and Financial Markets
- Law and Business Administration
- Economics and Management of Arts, Culture and Communication
- Economic and social sciences
- Economics and Management of International Markets and New Technologies
- Law
Special Scholarship
Beginning in 2003, Bocconi University has started a conspicuous program of scholarships with the specific goal of awarding its best students. The scholarship, named "Borsa di studio per studenti eccellenti" (Special assistance for outstanding students), is addressed to the first 50 students (out of 1940 students) enrolled in the Master of Science courses both coming from a Bocconi undergraduate degree and from another university degree. The scholarship, in addition to fully exempt the students from the payment of the tuition fee, provide also them with a large amount of money.
In order to apply for the scholarship one must have as minimum requirements:
- Completed the undergraduate degree at the first possible date
- Completed the degree with full marks
- Passed the GMAT with a score of at least 650
- Been admitted to a Graduate Degree Program by 31 July 2006
The major advantage of the scholarship, however, is the great visibility that it entails: most of the students awarded have found a job within the best employers of the Italian and international job market.
For any additional information related to the scholarship refer to the site: http://www.unibocconi.it/index.php?frcnav=@65%2C402%2C26999
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