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Copenhagen Business School, also known as CBS, is situated in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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, Denmark

Denmark

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. 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. CBS graduates find employment in both the private and the public sector.

CBS's most senior executive is the President who is appointed by a Governing Board composed of a majority of external members.

History

CBS was established in 1917 by the Danish Society for the Advancement of Business Education (now known as FUHU), which is a private educational institution. In 1965 the business school became integrated as an institution of higher education in the Danish education system. Today it is regulated by the Danish Universities Act of 2003.

Academic programmes

CBS offers a range of university degrees in business economics and modern languages for international business communication in Denmark.

B.Sc. International Business and Politics

Due to globalization, relationships between business, governments and international institutions are becoming increasingly more important and therefore strong skills in analyzing these relationships have become essential. The Business and Politics programme is a unique combination of economics, finance, management and political science.
B.Sc. IBP is one of the bachelor degrees in Denmark with the highest GPA entrance requirement and each year it attracts an increased number of both Danish and international students. It is the only degree in Denmark with the described academic disciplinary combination.

The courses are focused around various aspects of economics and finance, business and management as well as international political economy disciplines. The political science dimension adds to the curriculum theoretical debates on democracy, power, political decision-making etc. preparing the students to analyze political processes in national and international organizations and political systems.

B.Sc. International Business

The International Business programme has several courses in basic business education. The three main course categories are: methods, economics, and managerial economics. While this categorization is also true of most of CBS’ programmes, there are several aspects, which are different from the other bachelor programmes.

CBS Students

The student union, CBS Students, is an open organization that gives the students at CBS a place to meet and a forum for activities. Furthermore, the organization provides the opportunity to take part in ambitious and exciting tasks in co-operation with other students. CBS Students create a union and a network across different programs at CBS that students can benefit from for the rest of their lives. It tries to influence the academic policies at CBS.

360˚ Students for Sustainability

360˚ - Students for Sustainability is a student organization at CBS that encourages and enables students to meet and share knowledge about issues wihtin the broad spectrum of sustainability. Here, certain topics are chosen as focal points for the ongoing projects and activities in the organization in order to put classic as well as less known issues of sustainability into new perspective.

AIESEC CBS

AIESEC CBS is a part of the world’s largest student-lead organisation AIESEC. It focuses on providing a platform for leadership development as well as gaining experience and skills which are relevant today and in tomorrow’s business world. AIESEC is a service-based organisation and its core service is to facilitate internships for students in Denmark to go abroad and help students from abroad find internships in Denmark. The purpose behind AIESEC's service is to break down cultural barriers and create culturally aware managers for tomorrow’s business world.

IBP Union

For masters and bachelor students enrolled in the International Business and Politics programme at Copenhagen Business School the student organization IBP Union has been established in the attempt to further the integration of people studying IBP through social and academic activities.

CBS Sport

CBS Sport is an independent sports organization belonging to CBS. Established in 2006, CBS Sport currently has 12 sports:

Badminton
Basketball (men and women)
Cricket
Floorball (men and women)
Football (men and women)
Handball (men and women)
Horseback Riding
Rugby (men and women)
Running
Skiing
Tennis
Volleyball (Mixed)

CBS Campus

CBS is an urban university primarily located in four modern buildings in Frederiksberg, close to the heart of Copenhagen. Both the main complex at Solbjerg Plads, the architecturally acclaimed building by architect Henning Larsen at Dalgas Have and Kilen (the Wedge), which was inaugurated in the beginning of 2006, reflect the characteristic Scandinavian style. CBS has also rebuilt parts of the former Royal Copenhagen porcelain factory, and all parts of CBS Campus are within walking distance. CBS offers accommodation for international students and visiting professors.

Student facilities

Student facilities include multimedia labs, interpretation labs, break-out rooms for group and project work, personal computers and Learning Resource Center. Computers are replaced with new models at least every third year. Plugs for portable laptops are readily available, and wireless connections are installed in the main buildings.

Presidents

Alan Irwin, Acting President 2011-

Johan Roos (2009-2011)

Finn Junge-Jensen (1987-2009)

Frode Slipsager (1979-1987)

Lauge Stetting (1978-1979)

Carl E. Sørensen (1975-1978)

Jan Kobbernagel (1963-1975)

Poul Winding (1957-1963)

Christen Møller, Director (1938-1957)

Marius Vibæk, Director (1917-1938)

Research

CBS conducts research activities in:

The internal relations of enterprises (organisation, management and production)
The relations between enterprises and their surroundings (consumers, enterprises and investors)
The social context of enter prises (politics and culture, law and economics)
Linguistics and modern languages with a specific focus on business communication and LSP, i.e. translation/ interpreting, terminology, lexicography
Computational linguistics
Communication
Cultural and area studies with a specific focus on European Studies, Asian Studies and the Study of the Americas

Research excellence

Research Environments:

Financial Risk Management
Center for Strategic Management and Globalization
Open Innovation
Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness
Design and Governance of Economic Institutions
Translation Processes and Translation Systems.

Research departments

Department of Accounting and Auditing
Department of Economics
Department of Finance
Department of IT Managment
Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics
Department of Intercultural Communication and Management
Department of International Culture and Communication Studies
Department of International Economics and Management
Department of International Language Studies and Computational Linguistics
Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy
Department of Marketing
Department of Operations Management
Department of Organization
Law Department

Research centres

Asia Research Centre
CAMS Copenhagen
CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility
CBS Learning Lab
Center for Applied Information and Communication Technology
Center for Applied Market Science
Centre for Art and Leadership
Centre for Business and Development Studies
Centre for Business Marketing and Purchasing
Centre for Business Development and Management
Center for Business History
Center for Corporate Governance
Centre for Economic and Business Research
Centre for Financial Law
Center for Health Management
Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Centre for Language, Cognition and Mentality
Center for Law, Economics & Financial Institutions
Center for Management Studies of the Building Process
Center of Market Economics
Center for Marketing Communication
CBS Centre for Negotiation
Centre for School Leadership
Center for Research and Innovation in Translation and Translation Technology
Center for Shipping Economics and Innovation
Center for Statistics
Center for Strategic Management and Globalization
Center for the Study of the Americas
Centre for the Study of Europe
Center for Tourism and Culture Management
Copenhagen Business Confucius Institute
Copenhagen Consensus Center
Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics
DANTERMcentret
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International Center for Business and Politics
The Language Center
Research Centre on Biotech Business
Research Center, Management, Organization and Competence

Degree programmes

CBS offers a range of university degrees in business economics and modern languages for international business communication in Denmark. The selection of full-time programmes complies with the three levels:

3-year Bachelor
2-year Master
3-year PhD

As of September 2009, two of Denmark’s new Elite Master programmes for top qualified foreign and Danish students are offered at CBS: The Master in Advanced Economics and Finance and the interdisciplinary Master Programme in International Law, Economics and Management (ILECMA) which is offered in partnership with the University of Copenhagen

University of Copenhagen

The University of Copenhagen is the oldest and largest university and research institution in Denmark. Founded in 1479, it has more than 37,000 students, the majority of whom are female , and more than 7,000 employees. The university has several campuses located in and around Copenhagen, with the...

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Furthermore, CBS offers part-time programmes:

Executive Master Programmes
Graduate Diploma Programmes and short courses

Exchange programmes

CBS is the Danish member of CEMS - Global Alliance in Management Education and a member of Partnership in International Management (PIM), and focuses on double degree agreements with other top business schools. CBS has exchange and cooperation agreements with 390 universities and business schools around the world, half of which are European. 43% of CBS programmes are taught in English and CBS offer approximately 200 separate courses taught in English.

Rankings

MBA and EMBA
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) has earned AACSB Accreditation in 2011 and now becomes the first Business School in Denmark to earn a Triple accreditation. CBS has been awarded accreditation by EQUIS since 2000 and by AMBA since 2007.

CBS' MBA study program was ranked #37 in Europe in the 2008 Financial Times ranking; its EMBA program was ranked #26 in Europe in the same ranking.

EdUniversal

The French Eduniversal ranking for 2010 puts Copenhagen Business School at #3 in the world, behind Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School

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and London Business School

London Business School

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Financial Times

Financial Times

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CBS (Europe) 23 (2010)
EMBA (World) 58
EMBA (Europe) 18
Master’s in Management 22
CEMS MIM 1

Wall Street Journal:

Full-time MBA (World) 12

Eduniversal

Eduniversal is a French consulting company and a rating agency specialized in Higher Education. Founded in 1994, one of the main goals of Eduniversal is to provide a tool, for students all around the world, which provides information on the Best Business Schools, located in Eduniversal's 9...

Europe 2
World 3

Aspen Institute ”Beyond Grey Pinstripes”:

Full-time MBA (Europe) 9
Full- time MBA (World) 63

Financial times MSc-ranking

Year	Position
2005	14
2006	18
2007	21
2008	22
2009	22
2010	22

External links

Official site (in Danish)
Official site (in English)

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