Bocconi University
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Bocconi University is a private university located in central Milan
, beside Parco Ravizza. Bocconi provides undergraduate, graduate
and post-graduate education, in addition to a range of double degree
programs, in the fields of economics
, management
, finance
and law
. According to many university rankings institutions, the university is among the top global universities. Degrees are offered both in English and Italian. SDA Bocconi
, the University's business school
offers MBA and Executive MBA programs. Its MBA program was ranked 28th in the world by the Financial Times
Global MBA Rankings 2011. SDA Bocconi
was also ranked 18th by Businessweek
's Top Global Schools for its MBA and 5th among European Business Schools. Bocconi has also expanded its research division by inaugurating dedicated research centers.
The university was initially affiliated to the engineering school Politecnico di Milano and the teaching model based on that at the École Supérieure of Antwerp.
Bocconi is an internationally oriented institution in business
, economics
, and law
. It is also a research university
, receiving funds for its research projects from national and supranational institutions.
Bocconi University is structured around five schools: Undergraduate School, Graduate School, Law School, PhD School, and SDA Bocconi School of Management, its graduate business school. Bocconi presently offers Bachelor Degrees, Masters of Science, MBAs and PhDs in Finance
, Economics
, Management
, Statistics
, Law
and other disciplines. It also has a number of post-experience programs, and administers many customized executive education courses.
The university also provides activities for high school
students in Italy, such as mathematics competitions, Model United Nations
simulations and other major events aimed at orienting them during their secondary education
.
, the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio
, and the Torre Velasca
skyscraper
.
The first building in Via Sarfatti was designed in 1936 by the Italian architect
Giuseppe Pagano
. It hosts classrooms, an aula magna, a restaurant
, and most of the administrative offices. Its entrance features two lion
statues which are the subject of several university myths.
The pensionato building, which faces Via Ferdinando Bocconi, was inaugurated in 1956 by the architect Giovanni Muzio and hosts some grand halls, some of the canteen and dormitory
facilities (350 bedrooms distributed on 5 floors), and some faculty
offices. The different floors have an irregular form and bear the shape of a symmetric "L
" letter.
The SDA Bocconi
building, which is also in Via Ferdinando Bocconi, was opened in 1985 and features two blocks with a distinct set of dark metal panels. The building was extended in 2001, especially to host EGEA, the university bookstore. The campus football pitch
is placed between the pensionato and the SDA Bocconi
building.
The modern Velodromo building was projected by Ignazio Gardella
and launched in 2001. It is called so due to its form resembling an ellipsoid velodrome
. Each of its four floors has about ten classrooms with a capacity of 150. The Velodromo uses a geothermal exchange heat pump as its air conditioning
system, which provides energy conservation
. A marble
statue of Ferdinando Bocconi overlooks the foyer of the ground floor.
Close by, in Piazza Sraffa, are the Library
building (also built by Giovanni Muzio in 1962), the campus chapel
"San Ferdinando", and some smaller buildings such as those with the offices of the "Language Center" and other extracurricular activities.
Several other administrative and research offices of Bocconi's individual institutes are scattered across the area, especially around Parco Ravizza and Viale Isonzo.
In 2007, a new building was inaugurated in Via Roentgen known as Grafton Building from the name of the Irish practice Grafton Architects which designed the innovative building. The Grafton Building won the "World building of the year" at the World Architecture Festival
2008 held in Barcelona. The new building houses the offices of the entire Faculty, with its Departments and Research Centers. Its underground levels include, in addition to the new Aula Magna, seminar rooms, a spacious foyer, an exhibition area and parking. It is situated right next to the Velodromo.
Bocconi University provides off-campus students with about 1500 places in dorms.
Residences for students are Bocconi Residence, Javotte Residence, Kramer Residence, the more modern Arcobaleno Residence, Spadolini Residence and the latest Dubini Residence (inaugurated in 2010). The type of accommodation varies between the residences and the choice is among single rooms in apartments for either one, two or four people. The residences offer also services to students such as cleaning services, laundry rooms, study rooms, parking spaces. Many students, however, choose to rent private apartments which are easy to find around the university area.
which share a common basis in the first three semesters and then distinguish themselves from one another by focusing on either Finance
(CLEF), Social sciences
(CLES) or Business administration(CLEAM); the fourth course is entirely taught in English language
(BIEMF) and is targeted at both international students and students pursuing an international career. Students in this course have the choice to major in Economics
, Management
or Finance
during their course of studies.
A fifth separate three-year undergraduate course in Economics focuses on the economics and management of Arts
, Culture
and Communication
(CLEACC).
The University furthermore offers a five-year course in Law
, which incorporates the Italian equivalents of the Bachelor of Laws
and the Master of Laws
.
Both the Bachelors in Finance, in Italian (CLEF) and English (BIEMF), have been recognized by the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute (CFA Institute
). The partnership is granted to programs which cover at least 70% of the content necessary to take the CFA Program Exam level III, the highest level.
In a joint venture with the Central European University
of Budapest
, Bocconi also offers a four-year Dual Degree in International Business, the first two years of which are spent in Budapest
and the latter in Milan
.
offers different Master of Science
programs in Economics, Management and Law, each with a special emphasis on the fields of Public administration
, Environmental economics
, Health economics
, Social sciences
, Computational finance
and Risk management
, Accountancy
and Audit
, Public utility
management, Hospitality management
, Logistics
and Transport economics
, Innovation
management, Event management
and Experiential marketing, Communication
, Organization
and Information systems
.
The following graduate programs are entirely taught in the English language: International Management; Marketing Management; Finance; Economics and Management in Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment; Economics and Social Sciences; Economics and Management of Innovation and Technology; Quantitative Finance and Risk management; Public Management; International Health Care Management, Economics and Policy.
Bocconi has concluded a number of partnerships with regard to its Master of Science: the Master of Sciences in Finance was among the first six programs in the world to conclude a partnership with the CFA institute and the first in continental Europe, while the Master of Sciences in Management and International Management enable a selected number of students to take part in the CEMS Master of International Management, of which Bocconi is a founding member, along with HEC
, ESADE
and Universität zu Köln.
In addition to these, the University runs several double degree
programs with other institutions throughout the world:
, and hosts a Summer Academy in cooperation with the University of Trento
, as well as with the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
.
business school
of the University and offers internationally recognized MBA Programs highly ranked by Financial Times
and Forbes Magazine.
The SDA also offers professional education to executives and managers and publishes E&M (Economia & Management), a popular Italian business and management review.
Apart from the MBA, the SDA offers further Master of Science
programs in Corporate finance
and Banking, Real estate
management, Fine food and beverage management, Fashion Management, Design management
, Sports law
and Sport management
, and a Master in Stage and show management in a joint venture with the Academy for the Performing Arts of the opera house
La Scala
.
SDA Bocconi also has a combined MBA and Master of Arts
in International Affairs
(MAIA) with the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
(SAIS) in Johns Hopkins University
's Bologna Center.
In 2006, research was mainly funded by Bocconi itself (€1,510,571), the European Union
(€1,400,000) and the Italian
Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (€295,636), in addition to other external sources (€10,573,000).
Yearly, approximately 200 international publications and 300-400 national publications are done in the university.
Bocconi is a member of the Offshoring Research Network
, an international network researching the offshoring of business processes and services.
(Study centre on the economics and management of the arts and culture)
Center for Research on Corporate Administration, Finance
and Regulation
(Accounting and budgets, administrative control systems, corporate finance, corporate regulation)
Centre for Applied Research in Finance
Centre for Research on Health
and Social Care Management
(Institutional stuctures; management of public and private companies providing healthcare and social services)
Centre for Research on Marketing
& Services
(Marketing and competitive analysis; commercial consumption and distribution; trade fairs)
Center for Research on Regional Economics, Transport
and Tourism
(Urban, regional and transport structures of territorial economics; evaluation of EU policies on territorial development)
"Ariberto Mignoli" Centre for European Research on Business Law and History
Center for Research on Sustainability
and Value
Center for Research in Organization
and Management
(Organization of economic activity and human resources)
Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (Interdisciplinary research on social cohesion, demography, life course dynamics and public policy)
Centre for Research on Analysis and Systematic Use of Information
(Application of logical and quantitative methodologies to economic, financial, social and historical issues)
Center for Research on Entrepreneurship
and Entrepreneurs
(Entrepreneurship, corporations and family companies; small-to-medium enterprises; local district and network systems; business history)
Centre for Research on Energy
and Environmental Economics
and Policy
(Energy economics and policies; environmental policies and management; economics and management of public utility companies - energy and envronmental)
Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research
Part of the Institute of Economics, it operates jointly with two international bodies, the US-based NBER, National Bureau of Economic Research, and the UK-based CEPR
, Centre for Economic Policy Research
(Economics and economic policy)
Knowledge, Internationalization and Technology
Studies
Beginning in 2003, Bocconi University has started a program of scholarships with the specific goal of rewarding its best students. The scholarship, named "Borsa di studio per studenti eccellenti" (Fellowship 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. Scholarship students are exempt from tuition fee and receive financial stipends.
, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's basketball
, men's and women's volleyball
, water polo
, sailing
and other individual sports such as golf
, swimming
, skiing
, snowboarding
and skeet shooting
.
The pelican
is Bocconi's official sport mascot
.
A computer lab with computers, printers and internet-intranet connection is available for students in the main building. `The Bocconi campus is entirely covered by free wireless connection.
In addition to these there are many local branches of external associations, for example AIESEC
and Erasmus Student Network
.
and therefore its students have easy access to all the main landmarks and activities of the city.
, and replaced the prizes for Bocconian of the Year (given since 1988) and Master of Masters (given since 2007).
The prize is given to an alumnus of any of the five schools (Undergraduate School, School of Law, Graduate School, PhD School and SDA Bocconi School of Management) who has distinguished himself following the Bocconian values of professionality, entrepreneurship, integrity, responsibility and openess.
The prize is given by the Bocconi Alumni Association (BAA).
Recipients of the previous editions of the prize are: Diego Piacentini e Laura Cioli, Nouriel Roubini
e Giovanni Castellucci, Alberto Cribiore e Gaetano Micciché, Enrico Cucchiani e Paolo Cuccia, Vittorio Grilli, Claudio Costamagna, Vittorio Colao
, Paolo Scaroni
, Marco Drago, Corrado Passera, Renato Soru
, Emma Bonino
, Alessandro Profumo
, Emma Marcegaglia, Isabella Ventura, Carlo Scognamiglio, Marco Tronchetti Provera
, Giovanni Giudici, Lucio Stanca, Jody Vender, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa
, Giordano Zucchi, Roberto Mazzotta.
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, beside Parco Ravizza. Bocconi provides undergraduate, graduate
Graduate school
A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
and post-graduate education, in addition to a range of double degree
Double degree
A double-degree program, sometimes called a combined degree, conjoint degree, dual degree, or simultaneous degree program, involves a student's working for two different university degrees in parallel, either at the same institution or at different institutions , completing them in less time than...
programs, in the fields of economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
, management
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
, finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
and law
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
. According to many university rankings institutions, the university is among the top global universities. Degrees are offered both in English and Italian. SDA Bocconi
SDA Bocconi
SDA Bocconi School of Management is the graduate business school of the Bocconi University at Milan, Italy. It was founded in 1971 as a school of business education featuring strong international ties...
, the University's business school
Business school
A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, administration, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, public relations, strategy, human resource...
offers MBA and Executive MBA programs. Its MBA program was ranked 28th in the world by the Financial Times
Financial Times
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Global MBA Rankings 2011. SDA Bocconi
SDA Bocconi
SDA Bocconi School of Management is the graduate business school of the Bocconi University at Milan, Italy. It was founded in 1971 as a school of business education featuring strong international ties...
was also ranked 18th by Businessweek
BusinessWeek
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's Top Global Schools for its MBA and 5th among European Business Schools. Bocconi has also expanded its research division by inaugurating dedicated research centers.
History
The university was founded in 1902 by Ferdinando Bocconi and was named after his son, who died in the Battle of Adwa during the First Italo-Ethiopian War.The university was initially affiliated to the engineering school Politecnico di Milano and the teaching model based on that at the École Supérieure of Antwerp.
Bocconi is an internationally oriented institution in business
Business
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, economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
, and law
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
. It is also a research university
History of European research universities
European research universities date from the founding of the University of Bologna in 1088 or the University of Paris . In the 19th and 20th centuries, European universities concentrated upon science and research, their structures and philosophies having shaped the contemporary university...
, receiving funds for its research projects from national and supranational institutions.
Bocconi University is structured around five schools: Undergraduate School, Graduate School, Law School, PhD School, and SDA Bocconi School of Management, its graduate business school. Bocconi presently offers Bachelor Degrees, Masters of Science, MBAs and PhDs in Finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
, Economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
, Management
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
, Statistics
Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
, Law
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
and other disciplines. It also has a number of post-experience programs, and administers many customized executive education courses.
The university also provides activities for high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
students in Italy, such as mathematics competitions, Model United Nations
Model United Nations
Model United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda....
simulations and other major events aimed at orienting them during their secondary education
Secondary education
Secondary education is the stage of education following primary education. Secondary education includes the final stage of compulsory education and in many countries it is entirely compulsory. The next stage of education is usually college or university...
.
Campus
The campus was originally located in Via Statuto near the Pinacoteca di Brera, where its first building was inaugurated in 1902. The current campus is now located beside Parco Ravizza between Via Sarfatti and Viale Bligny and consists of several buildings, all within walking distance to Porta TicineseNaviglio Grande
The Naviglio Grande is a canal in Lombardy, northern Italy, joining the Ticino river near Tornavento to the Porta Ticinese dock, also known as the Darsena, in Milan. It drops 34 m over 49.9 km. It varies in width from 22 m to 50 m from Tornavento to Abbiategrasso, dropping to 15 m between there...
, the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio
Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio
The Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio is a church in Milan, northern Italy. It was for many years an important centre for pilgrims on their journey to Rome or to the Holy Land, because it was the site of the tomb of the Three Magi or Three Kings....
, and the Torre Velasca
Torre Velasca
The Torre Velasca is a skyscraper built in 1950s by the BBPR architectural partnership, in Milan, Italy.-Architects:...
skyscraper
Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many stories, often designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper...
.
The first building in Via Sarfatti was designed in 1936 by the Italian architect
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
Giuseppe Pagano
Giuseppe Pagano
Giuseppe Pagano was an Italian architect, notable for his involvement in the movement of rationalist architecture in Italy up to the end of the Second World War....
. It hosts classrooms, an aula magna, a restaurant
Restaurant
A restaurant is an establishment which prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services...
, and most of the administrative offices. Its entrance features two lion
Lion
The lion is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera, and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger...
statues which are the subject of several university myths.
The pensionato building, which faces Via Ferdinando Bocconi, was inaugurated in 1956 by the architect Giovanni Muzio and hosts some grand halls, some of the canteen and dormitory
Dormitory
A dormitory, often shortened to dorm, in the United States is a residence hall consisting of sleeping quarters or entire buildings primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people, often boarding school, college or university students...
facilities (350 bedrooms distributed on 5 floors), and some faculty
Teacher
A teacher or schoolteacher is a person who provides education for pupils and students . The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out at a school or other place of formal education. In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional...
offices. The different floors have an irregular form and bear the shape of a symmetric "L
L
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" letter.
The SDA Bocconi
SDA Bocconi
SDA Bocconi School of Management is the graduate business school of the Bocconi University at Milan, Italy. It was founded in 1971 as a school of business education featuring strong international ties...
building, which is also in Via Ferdinando Bocconi, was opened in 1985 and features two blocks with a distinct set of dark metal panels. The building was extended in 2001, especially to host EGEA, the university bookstore. The campus football pitch
Association football pitch
An association football pitch is the playing surface for the game of association football made of turf. Its dimensions and markings are defined by Law 1 of the Laws of the Game, "The Field of Play".All line markings on the pitch form part of the area which they define...
is placed between the pensionato and the SDA Bocconi
SDA Bocconi
SDA Bocconi School of Management is the graduate business school of the Bocconi University at Milan, Italy. It was founded in 1971 as a school of business education featuring strong international ties...
building.
The modern Velodromo building was projected by Ignazio Gardella
Ignazio Gardella
Ignazio Gardella was an Italian architect and designer.-Biography:Born into a family of architects, the first of which was his namesake Ignazio Gardella , he graduated in engineering from the Politecnico di Milano university in 1928 .In his university...
and launched in 2001. It is called so due to its form resembling an ellipsoid velodrome
Velodrome
A velodrome is an arena for track cycling. Modern velodromes feature steeply banked oval tracks, consisting of two 180-degree circular bends connected by two straights...
. Each of its four floors has about ten classrooms with a capacity of 150. The Velodromo uses a geothermal exchange heat pump as its air conditioning
Air conditioning
An air conditioner is a home appliance, system, or mechanism designed to dehumidify and extract heat from an area. The cooling is done using a simple refrigeration cycle...
system, which provides energy conservation
Energy conservation
Energy conservation refers to efforts made to reduce energy consumption. Energy conservation can be achieved through increased efficient energy use, in conjunction with decreased energy consumption and/or reduced consumption from conventional energy sources...
. A marble
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.Geologists use the term "marble" to refer to metamorphosed limestone; however stonemasons use the term more broadly to encompass unmetamorphosed limestone.Marble is commonly used for...
statue of Ferdinando Bocconi overlooks the foyer of the ground floor.
Close by, in Piazza Sraffa, are the Library
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
building (also built by Giovanni Muzio in 1962), the campus chapel
Chapel
A chapel is a building used by Christians as a place of fellowship and worship. It may be part of a larger structure or complex, such as a church, college, hospital, palace, prison or funeral home, located on board a military or commercial ship, or it may be an entirely free-standing building,...
"San Ferdinando", and some smaller buildings such as those with the offices of the "Language Center" and other extracurricular activities.
Several other administrative and research offices of Bocconi's individual institutes are scattered across the area, especially around Parco Ravizza and Viale Isonzo.
In 2007, a new building was inaugurated in Via Roentgen known as Grafton Building from the name of the Irish practice Grafton Architects which designed the innovative building. The Grafton Building won the "World building of the year" at the World Architecture Festival
World Architecture Festival
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2008 held in Barcelona. The new building houses the offices of the entire Faculty, with its Departments and Research Centers. Its underground levels include, in addition to the new Aula Magna, seminar rooms, a spacious foyer, an exhibition area and parking. It is situated right next to the Velodromo.
Bocconi University provides off-campus students with about 1500 places in dorms.
Residences for students are Bocconi Residence, Javotte Residence, Kramer Residence, the more modern Arcobaleno Residence, Spadolini Residence and the latest Dubini Residence (inaugurated in 2010). The type of accommodation varies between the residences and the choice is among single rooms in apartments for either one, two or four people. The residences offer also services to students such as cleaning services, laundry rooms, study rooms, parking spaces. Many students, however, choose to rent private apartments which are easy to find around the university area.
Academics
Undergraduate programs
The University offers four three-year undergraduate courses in EconomicsEconomics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
which share a common basis in the first three semesters and then distinguish themselves from one another by focusing on either Finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
(CLEF), Social sciences
Social sciences
Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
(CLES) or Business administration(CLEAM); the fourth course is entirely taught in English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
(BIEMF) and is targeted at both international students and students pursuing an international career. Students in this course have the choice to major in Economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
, Management
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
or Finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
during their course of studies.
A fifth separate three-year undergraduate course in Economics focuses on the economics and management of Arts
ARts
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, Culture
Culture
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and Communication
Communication
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(CLEACC).
The University furthermore offers a five-year course in Law
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
, which incorporates the Italian equivalents of the Bachelor of Laws
Bachelor of Laws
The Bachelor of Laws is an undergraduate, or bachelor, degree in law originating in England and offered in most common law countries as the primary law degree...
and the Master of Laws
Master of Laws
The Master of Laws is an advanced academic degree, pursued by those holding a professional law degree, and is commonly abbreviated LL.M. from its Latin name, Legum Magister. The University of Oxford names its taught masters of laws B.C.L...
.
Both the Bachelors in Finance, in Italian (CLEF) and English (BIEMF), have been recognized by the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute (CFA Institute
CFA Institute
CFA Institute is headquartered in the United States of America at Charlottesville, Virginia, with offices in Hong Kong and London. Formerly known as the Association for Investment Management and Research , CFA Institute awards the Chartered Financial Analyst designation...
). The partnership is granted to programs which cover at least 70% of the content necessary to take the CFA Program Exam level III, the highest level.
In a joint venture with the Central European University
Central European University
For other uses, see European University Central European University is a graduate-level, English-language university offering degrees in the social sciences, humanities, law, public policy, business management, environmental science, and mathematics...
of Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
, Bocconi also offers a four-year Dual Degree in International Business, the first two years of which are spent in Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
and the latter in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
.
Graduate programs
The universities' graduate schoolGraduate school
A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
offers different Master of Science
Master of Science
A Master of Science is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in the sciences including the social sciences.-Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay:...
programs in Economics, Management and Law, each with a special emphasis on the fields of Public administration
Public administration
Public Administration houses the implementation of government policy and an academic discipline that studies this implementation and that prepares civil servants for this work. As a "field of inquiry with a diverse scope" its "fundamental goal.....
, Environmental economics
Environmental economics
Environmental economics is a subfield of economics concerned with environmental issues. Quoting from the National Bureau of Economic Research Environmental Economics program:...
, Health economics
Health economics
Health economics is a branch of economics concerned with issues related to efficiency, effectiveness, value and behavior in the production and consumption of health and health care...
, Social sciences
Social sciences
Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
, Computational finance
Computational finance
Computational finance, also called financial engineering, is a cross-disciplinary field which relies on computational intelligence, mathematical finance, numerical methods and computer simulations to make trading, hedging and investment decisions, as well as facilitating the risk management of...
and Risk management
Risk management
Risk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities...
, Accountancy
Accountancy
Accountancy is the process of communicating financial information about a business entity to users such as shareholders and managers. The communication is generally in the form of financial statements that show in money terms the economic resources under the control of management; the art lies in...
and Audit
Audit
The general definition of an audit is an evaluation of a person, organization, system, process, enterprise, project or product. The term most commonly refers to audits in accounting, but similar concepts also exist in project management, quality management, and energy conservation.- Accounting...
, Public utility
Public utility
A public utility is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service . Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and regulation ranging from local community-based groups to state-wide government monopolies...
management, Hospitality management
Hospitality management
Hospitality management is the academic study of the hospitality industry. A degree in Hospitality management is often conferred from either a university college dedicated to the studies of hospitality management or a business school with a department in hospitality management studies...
, Logistics
Logistics
Logistics is the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and...
and Transport economics
Transport economics
Transport economics is a branch of economics that deals with the allocation of resources within the transport sector and has strong linkages with civil engineering. Transport economics differs from some other branches of economics in that the assumption of a spaceless, instantaneous economy does...
, Innovation
Innovation
Innovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society...
management, Event management
Event management
Event management is the application of project management to the creation and development of festivals, events and conferences.Event management involves studying the intricacies of the brand, identifying the target audience, devising the event concept, planning the logistics and coordinating the...
and Experiential marketing, Communication
Communication
Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast...
, Organization
Organization
An organization is a social group which distributes tasks for a collective goal. The word itself is derived from the Greek word organon, itself derived from the better-known word ergon - as we know `organ` - and it means a compartment for a particular job.There are a variety of legal types of...
and Information systems
Information systems
Information Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...
.
The following graduate programs are entirely taught in the English language: International Management; Marketing Management; Finance; Economics and Management in Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment; Economics and Social Sciences; Economics and Management of Innovation and Technology; Quantitative Finance and Risk management; Public Management; International Health Care Management, Economics and Policy.
Bocconi has concluded a number of partnerships with regard to its Master of Science: the Master of Sciences in Finance was among the first six programs in the world to conclude a partnership with the CFA institute and the first in continental Europe, while the Master of Sciences in Management and International Management enable a selected number of students to take part in the CEMS Master of International Management, of which Bocconi is a founding member, along with HEC
Hautes Etudes Commerciales
Hautes Études Commerciales may refer to several business schools.*HEC Paris, France*HEC Lausanne, Switzerland*HEC Geneva, Switzerland*HEC Montréal, Canada*HEC Alger, Algiers*HECJF Paris, France...
, ESADE
ESADE
The Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas is a college associated with the Ramon Llull University located in Barcelona, Spain. ESADE is composed of three departments; the ESADE Business School, the ESADE Executive Language Center and the ESADE Law School...
and Universität zu Köln.
In addition to these, the University runs several double degree
Double degree
A double-degree program, sometimes called a combined degree, conjoint degree, dual degree, or simultaneous degree program, involves a student's working for two different university degrees in parallel, either at the same institution or at different institutions , completing them in less time than...
programs with other institutions throughout the world:
| University | Degrees |
|---|---|
| Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen Business School, also known as CBS, is situated in Copenhagen, Denmark. With more than 17,000 students and 1,300 staff members, CBS is also one of the largest business schools in Europe. CBS offers a wide range of business-oriented university programmes and a research environment... |
Art Culture Media Entertainment, Economics, Management, Marketing |
| ESADE ESADE The Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas is a college associated with the Ramon Llull University located in Barcelona, Spain. ESADE is composed of three departments; the ESADE Business School, the ESADE Executive Language Center and the ESADE Law School... |
Management, Marketing |
| Fudan University Fudan University Fudan University , located in Shanghai, is one of the oldest and most selective universities in China, and is a member of the C9 League. Its institutional predecessor was founded in 1905, shortly before the end of China's imperial Qing dynasty... |
Management |
| HEC School of Management HEC School of Management HEC Paris or École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris is one of the foremost business schools in France and in Europe. It was created in 1881 by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the model of French Grandes Ecoles and has progressively become one of the most selective graduate... |
Art Culture Media Entertainment, Economics, Finance , Management, Marketing |
| Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad , better known as IIM Ahmedabad or simply IIM-A, is a business school located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It is the second Indian Institute of Management to be established, in 1961.-History:... |
Management |
| Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi | Management |
| Moscow State Institute of International Relations | Economics |
| Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam School of Management Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University is the international business school of the Erasmus University Rotterdam located in Rotterdam, Netherlands... |
Economics, Finance, Marketing |
| Sciences Po Paris | Public Management |
| Université Catholique de Louvain Université catholique de Louvain The Université catholique de Louvain, sometimes known, especially in Belgium, as UCL, is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It is located in Louvain-la-Neuve and in Brussels... |
Economics |
| University of Geneva University of Geneva The University of Geneva is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland.It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin, as a theological seminary and law school. It remained focused on theology until the 17th century, when it became a center for Enlightenment scholarship. In 1873, it... |
Public Management |
| University of St. Gallen University of St. Gallen The University of St. Gallen is a public research university located in St. Gallen, Switzerland. It is specialized in the fields of business administration, economics, law, and international affairs. The University of St. Gallen is also known as HSG, which is an abbreviation of its former German... |
Management |
| Queen's School of Business Queen's School of Business The Queen's School of Business is located in Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Since 2006, the Queen's School of Business MBA program has been ranked by Business Week number one internationally, outside the United States. The school of business became its own faculty in 1963 with its... |
International Business |
School of Law
Bocconi University School of Law was established in 2006, consolidating the tradition of legal studies at Bocconi under the aegis of the "A.Sraffa" Institute for Comparative Law. The School of Law currently offers a combined B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Law, runs the Specialization School for Legal professions in cooperation with the University of PaviaUniversity of Pavia
The University of Pavia is a university located in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. It was founded in 1361 and is organized in 9 Faculties.-History:...
, and hosts a Summer Academy in cooperation with the University of Trento
University of Trento
The University of Trento is an Italian university located in the cities of Trento and Rovereto. It has been able to achieve considerable results in didactics, research and international relations, as shown by Censis University Guide and by the Italian Ministry of...
, as well as with the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
The Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa is a special-statute public university located in Pisa, Italy, operating in the field of applied sciences....
.
SDA Bocconi
SDA Bocconi (SDA standing for "Scuola di Direzione Aziendale" = School of Management) is the graduatePostgraduate education
Postgraduate education involves learning and studying for degrees or other qualifications for which a first or Bachelor's degree generally is required, and is normally considered to be part of higher education...
business school
Business school
A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, administration, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, public relations, strategy, human resource...
of the University and offers internationally recognized MBA Programs highly ranked by Financial Times
Financial Times
The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....
and Forbes Magazine.
The SDA also offers professional education to executives and managers and publishes E&M (Economia & Management), a popular Italian business and management review.
Apart from the MBA, the SDA offers further Master of Science
Master of Science
A Master of Science is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in the sciences including the social sciences.-Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay:...
programs in Corporate finance
Corporate finance
Corporate finance is the area of finance dealing with monetary decisions that business enterprises make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions. The primary goal of corporate finance is to maximize shareholder value while managing the firm's financial risks...
and Banking, Real estate
Real estate
In general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...
management, Fine food and beverage management, Fashion Management, Design management
Design management
Design Management is a business discipline that uses project management, design, strategy, and supply chain techniques to control a creative process, support a culture of creativity, and build a structure and organisation for design...
, Sports law
Sports law
Sports law is an umbrella term used to describe the legal issues at work in the world of both amateur and professional sports. Sports law overlaps substantially with labor law, contract law, competition or antitrust law, and tort law. Issues like defamation and privacy rights are also an integral...
and Sport management
Sport management
Sport management is a field of education and vocation concerning the business aspect of sport. Some examples of sport managers include the front office system in professional sports, college sports managers, recreational sport managers, sports marketing, event management, facility management,...
, and a Master in Stage and show management in a joint venture with the Academy for the Performing Arts of the opera house
Opera house
An opera house is a theatre building used for opera performances that consists of a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and set building...
La Scala
La Scala
La Scala , is a world renowned opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the New Royal-Ducal Theatre at La Scala...
.
SDA Bocconi also has a combined MBA and Master of Arts
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
in International Affairs
International relations
International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...
(MAIA) with the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies , a division of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., is one of the world's leading and most prestigious graduate schools devoted to the study of international affairs, economics, diplomacy, and policy research and...
(SAIS) in Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
's Bologna Center.
Research and endowment
As of 2007, the University has 20 permanent research centers and four research project centers.In 2006, research was mainly funded by Bocconi itself (€1,510,571), the European Union
European Union
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
(€1,400,000) and the Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (€295,636), in addition to other external sources (€10,573,000).
Yearly, approximately 200 international publications and 300-400 national publications are done in the university.
Bocconi is a member of the Offshoring Research Network
Offshoring Research Network
The Offshoring Research Network is an international network of researchers and practitioners studying organizations in their transition to globalizing their business functions, processes and administrative services...
, an international network researching the offshoring of business processes and services.
Permanent Research Centers
Centre for Research on Management and Economics of Arts and Culture Institutions(Study centre on the economics and management of the arts and culture)
- Paolo Baffi Centre on Central Banking and Financial Regulation
- CAFRA
Center for Research on Corporate Administration, Finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
and Regulation
(Accounting and budgets, administrative control systems, corporate finance, corporate regulation)
- CAREFIN
Centre for Applied Research in Finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
- CERGAS
Centre for Research on Health
Health
Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain...
and Social Care Management
(Institutional stuctures; management of public and private companies providing healthcare and social services)
- CERMES
Centre for Research on Marketing
Marketing
Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...
& Services
(Marketing and competitive analysis; commercial consumption and distribution; trade fairs)
- CERTeT
Center for Research on Regional Economics, Transport
Transport
Transport or transportation is the movement of people, cattle, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations...
and Tourism
Tourism
Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".Tourism has become a...
(Urban, regional and transport structures of territorial economics; evaluation of EU policies on territorial development)
- CREDI
"Ariberto Mignoli" Centre for European Research on Business Law and History
- CReSV
Center for Research on Sustainability
Sustainability
Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of union, an interdependent relationship and mutual responsible position with all living and non...
and Value
- CROMA
Center for Research in Organization
Organization
An organization is a social group which distributes tasks for a collective goal. The word itself is derived from the Greek word organon, itself derived from the better-known word ergon - as we know `organ` - and it means a compartment for a particular job.There are a variety of legal types of...
and Management
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
(Organization of economic activity and human resources)
- Dondena CentreDondena CentreThe Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics was established at Bocconi University in 2006. It aims to promote, coordinate and conduct interdisciplinary research on social dynamics, with emphasis on medium- and long-term processes and on comparative analysis.The main areas of...
Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (Interdisciplinary research on social cohesion, demography, life course dynamics and public policy)
- ELEUSI
Centre for Research on Analysis and Systematic Use of Information
Information
Information in its most restricted technical sense is a message or collection of messages that consists of an ordered sequence of symbols, or it is the meaning that can be interpreted from such a message or collection of messages. Information can be recorded or transmitted. It can be recorded as...
(Application of logical and quantitative methodologies to economic, financial, social and historical issues)
- ENTER
Center for Research on Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is the act of being an entrepreneur, which can be defined as "one who undertakes innovations, finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods". This may result in new organizations or may be part of revitalizing mature organizations in response...
and Entrepreneurs
(Entrepreneurship, corporations and family companies; small-to-medium enterprises; local district and network systems; business history)
- IEFE
Centre for Research on Energy
Energy
In physics, energy is an indirectly observed quantity. It is often understood as the ability a physical system has to do work on other physical systems...
and Environmental Economics
Environmental economics
Environmental economics is a subfield of economics concerned with environmental issues. Quoting from the National Bureau of Economic Research Environmental Economics program:...
and Policy
(Energy economics and policies; environmental policies and management; economics and management of public utility companies - energy and envronmental)
- IGIER
Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research
Part of the Institute of Economics, it operates jointly with two international bodies, the US-based NBER, National Bureau of Economic Research, and the UK-based CEPR
CEPR
The acronym CEPR may refer to:* Centre for Economic Policy Research, a London-based European network of economists, founded in 1983* Center for Economic and Policy Research, a progressive think tank in Washington, D.C., founded in 1999...
, Centre for Economic Policy Research
(Economics and economic policy)
- KITES
Knowledge, Internationalization and Technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
Studies
Student scholarships
ISU Bocconi coordinates and provides students with grants and services.Beginning in 2003, Bocconi University has started a program of scholarships with the specific goal of rewarding its best students. The scholarship, named "Borsa di studio per studenti eccellenti" (Fellowship 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. Scholarship students are exempt from tuition fee and receive financial stipends.
Bocconi sport teams
Bocconi's students actively participate at and host different official national and international tournaments in athleticsAthletics (track and field)
Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking...
, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, men's and women's volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, water polo
Water polo
Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...
, sailing
Sailing
Sailing is the propulsion of a vehicle and the control of its movement with large foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes the keel or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to move the boat relative to its surrounding medium and...
and other individual sports such as golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
, skiing
Skiing
Skiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding....
, snowboarding
Snowboarding
Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the U.S.A...
and skeet shooting
Skeet shooting
Skeet shooting is one of the three major types of competitive shotgun target shooting sports . There are several types of skeet, including one with Olympic status , and many with only national recognition.- General principles :Skeet is a recreational and competitive activity where...
.
The pelican
Pelican
A pelican, derived from the Greek word πελεκυς pelekys is a large water bird with a large throat pouch, belonging to the bird family Pelecanidae....
is Bocconi's official sport mascot
Mascot
The term mascot – defined as a term for any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck – colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name...
.
Library
The Bocconi Library supports the educational and research mission of the University. The completeness of its collections make the Library an important institution for the economic academic community in Italy.Bocconi alumni
The Bocconi Alumni Association (BAA) was created to allow alumni to keep in contact with each other and with their alma mater, this office offers a series of activities organized and promoted by former students. It is dedicated to the University's more than 80,000 graduates and holders of MBA, Master and PhD degrees.Multimedia classroom
Used for interactive multimedia teaching as well as assessment tests, exams and international certificates. Students can communicate with each other and with the instructor one-to-one, and one-to-many to encourage collaborative learning. They can also use digital audio files (video and text) to record their voice and compare it with the original.Self-study laboratories
Each student place has a computer with a University intranet and Internet connection, a CD and DVD reader, and headset for listening and recording. The software on each computer is especially designed for language learning.IT services
Bocconi uses a platform for e-learning on which teaching materials are posted by professors, moreover most of the administrative functions such as payments, enrollment to exams, study plan choices are made trough the students' online agenda.A computer lab with computers, printers and internet-intranet connection is available for students in the main building. `The Bocconi campus is entirely covered by free wireless connection.
Student associations
The University is home to a number of societies, some of which are directly involved in facilitating students' integration into the campus life environment and in organizing special events ranging from business games to excursions.- International Students at Bocconi (IS@B) mainly deals with promoting and implementing programs and initiatives for and with international students. The society often organizes conferences, cultural visits, and trips to facilitate the integration of foreign and local students.
- Bocconi Chinese Students Association is one of the first and biggest Chinese students association of Italy, an initiative started jointly by Chinese and Italian students of Bocconi that aims to promote an awareness of the Chinese culture and link all students interested in China or a future career related to it.
- JEME Bocconi (Junior Enterprise Milano Economia) is a non profit "junior enterpriseJunior enterpriseA junior enterprise is a local non-profit organization entirely managed by students. Related to their field of studies the students offer consulting services to the market; experiencing unique learning opportunities by doing professional project work on the one side and managing small- to medium...
", the first to be founded in Italy in 1988, and it provides consultingConsultantA consultant is a professional who provides professional or expert advice in a particular area such as management, accountancy, the environment, entertainment, technology, law , human resources, marketing, emergency management, food production, medicine, finance, life management, economics, public...
services to enterprises in the region. Furthermore, JEME also organizes business games and business case competitions that are held in the university.
- Bocconi Equal Students(BESt)is the students association promoting respect for the many identities in our university and in the places we live. It supports the respect for any form of gender diversity and sexual orientation by organizing events, conferences and debates on the arguments.
- Bocconi Russian Students Association would like to create a link between all the Russian students at the university and their Italian or International mates. It offers to everyone interested the possibility to broaden his horizons, from a personal, working and a cultural point of view.
In addition to these there are many local branches of external associations, for example AIESEC
AIESEC
AIESEC is a global youth organisation that develops leadership capabilities through their internal leadership programmes and engaging students and graduates in international student exchange and internship programmes for profit and non-profit organisations. Its international office is in...
and Erasmus Student Network
Erasmus Student Network
Erasmus Student Network is a European wide student organisation. Its goal is to support and develop student exchange. It is composed of over 12'000 members from more than 370 local sections in 36 countries in Higher Education Institutions, including universities, polytechnics, and university...
.
Student publications
The University hosts several student run publications:- Tra i Leoni: a campus magazine run by the eponymous society. The title, which means "between the lions", is a reference to the atrium of the main building, which is also a favorite meeting point for students, guarded by two lion statues.
- Bocconi School of Law Student-Edited Papers: the Law School's official student publication. The journal's Editorial Board are selected by way of an annual write-on competition, and go on to select and provide feedback on submitted papers, as well as organising the annual call for papers.
- IS@B News: a campus magazine run by the International Student Association (IS@B).
- Be OBjective Magazine: a bimonthly pdf magazine founded by students from the ACME course. The magazine focus on art, culture and media and entertainment.
Recreational activities
Bocconi lies in the very center of MilanMilan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
and therefore its students have easy access to all the main landmarks and activities of the city.
Traditions
In the atrium of the oldest building of the university there are three sets of doors. The central doors, which are larger than the others, have two lions to either side of them. There is a superstition within the university that students who pass in-between the two lions via the central doors risk not being able to graduate. This derives from the old adage "Chi passa tra i Leoni non si laurea alla Bocconi.".Notable students and professors
- For a full list, see :Category:Alumni of Bocconi University and :Category:Bocconi University faculty
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Alumnus of the Year
The title of Alumnus of the Year was given for the first time in 2011 to Fabrizio Saccomanni, general director of Bank of ItalyBank of Italy
Bank of Italy may refer to either :*Banca d'Italia is the central bank of Italy.*Bank of Italy was a bank established in San Francisco, California and the forerunner of Bank of America....
, and replaced the prizes for Bocconian of the Year (given since 1988) and Master of Masters (given since 2007).
The prize is given to an alumnus of any of the five schools (Undergraduate School, School of Law, Graduate School, PhD School and SDA Bocconi School of Management) who has distinguished himself following the Bocconian values of professionality, entrepreneurship, integrity, responsibility and openess.
The prize is given by the Bocconi Alumni Association (BAA).
Recipients of the previous editions of the prize are: Diego Piacentini e Laura Cioli, Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel Roubini is an American economist. He claims to have predicted both the collapse of the United States housing market and the worldwide recession which started in 2008. He teaches at New York University's Stern School of Business and is the chairman of Roubini Global Economics, an economic...
e Giovanni Castellucci, Alberto Cribiore e Gaetano Micciché, Enrico Cucchiani e Paolo Cuccia, Vittorio Grilli, Claudio Costamagna, Vittorio Colao
Vittorio Colao
Vittorio Colao is an Italian businessman, the current Chief Executive of Vodafone Group.-Biography:The son of an officer in the Carabinieri, Colao was born in Brescia. After studying business at Bocconi University and holding an MBA with Honours from Harvard Business School, he spent time in...
, Paolo Scaroni
Paolo Scaroni
Paolo Scaroni, born on 28 November 1946 in Vicenza, Italy, is chief executive officer of Italian energy company Eni SpA.-Education:In 1969, Scaroni graduated from Bocconi University of Milan in the field of economics. In 1973 he obtained an MBA from Columbia Business School.-Career:In 1969, Scaroni...
, Marco Drago, Corrado Passera, Renato Soru
Renato Soru
Renato Soru is an Italian entrepreneur, the founder of the internet service company Tiscali, based in Cagliari. He was born in Sanluri, Sardinia....
, Emma Bonino
Emma Bonino
Emma Bonino is an Italian politician, former Member of the European Parliament and current Member of the Italian Senate. She is a leading member of the Italian Radicals, a political party that supports economic and social libertarianism, and human rights...
, Alessandro Profumo
Alessandro Profumo
Alessandro Profumo is an Italian manager who had significant influence in the consolidation of the Italian banking sector.As a representative of the share holder value based management approach he is considered to be ambitious...
, Emma Marcegaglia, Isabella Ventura, Carlo Scognamiglio, Marco Tronchetti Provera
Marco Tronchetti Provera
Marco Tronchetti Provera was born in Milan in 1948 and obtained a Degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Bocconi University of Milan in 1971...
, Giovanni Giudici, Lucio Stanca, Jody Vender, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa , Knight Grand Cross was a well-known pro-European Italian banker and economist who was Italy's Minister of Economy and Finance from May 2006 until May 2008...
, Giordano Zucchi, Roberto Mazzotta.
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