Università Bocconi & SDA Bocconi

There is a continuum linking the MBA, the SDA Bocconi and the Università Bocconi courses

The MBA experience at Bocconi makes you part of a deeply-seated history that is steadily moving ahead into the future. Università Bocconi prides itself for a long history in excellence business education at the international level. Our roots are traced to 1902 when the "Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi" was established as the first Italian university to grant a degree in economics.

Today, Bocconi remains firm to its commitment to serve the students ' best interests for the last century.
Bocconi has always stood for the ideals of liberalism, pluralism and progress.
Teachers and students are proud to be part of its history, pride that last a life-time.

Bocconi is an elite but not elitist university, always practicing and supporting equality of opportunities for its generations of students.

In 1971, Bocconi set up its own School of Management (Scuola di Direzione Aziendale).
Since then, SDA Bocconi has been a unique School of Management , the direct offspring of a specialist university, with an unrivalled portfolio of Executive courses, Master and MBA Programs.
The school is constantly gaining growing momentum for its innovatively ongoing efforts to deliver excellence education.

Located at the heart of Milan and open to the world, SDA Bocconi asserts itself as the leading Italian Business School and highly influential educational center at the global level.

Business success through ethical management
Bocconi promotes economic progress and the spread of ethical values. It provides students with solid intellectual and professional training, so that they can contribute to the innovation and improvement of business practices, without neglecting the ethical and social aspects of business decisions. Many Bocconi alumni and some of its faculty members have held, and continue to hold, positions of great importance and influence on the Italian and international economic scene .

Research that helps the economy and society to grow
Bocconi is a research university of international standing. Through basic and applied research funded by private and public institutions, Bocconi makes its contribution to the knowledge economy.

A global network
Università Bocconi and SDA Bocconi are part of a global network of international centers of economic knowledge, exchanging faculty and students and co-operating on major projects with like-minded universities and business schools. By cultivating close relations with firms and institutions, Bocconi constantly interacts within public life to guide thinking on socio-economic issues by spreading techniques, models and tools with its constant research endeavor. The Bocconi Exchange Program (including the Socrates/Erasmus program) envisages the exchange of students through bilateral agreements with over 100 Universities in 41 countries in all 5 continents. The foreign Universities included in the program have been carefully selected from the world's leading education institutions in the fields of Management, Economics and Social Sciences. Università Bocconi is part of two of the most prestigious international networks: CEMS (Community of European Management Schools) and PIM (Partnership in International Management).

A partner for your life-long education
At SDA Bocconi, we see education as an ongoing process that spans the entire professional life of an individual. Bocconi's educational network provides an integrated offer in undergraduate, graduate, doctoral education in management, economics and law besides running a host of executive courses for managers and professionals active in both the private and public sector. While fully enjoying Bocconi's facilities and tradition, the MBA Program has dedicated site, staff and faculty.

Being admitted to the MBA means belonging to the network of achievement.