Ibmec is a privateresearch university with five campuses in Brazil's main cities of Rio de Janeiro (two campuses), São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, and Brasília. Founded in 1970,[1] it is one of Latin America's most prestigious business and economics school and today offers undergraduate and graduate programs in several other disciplines.
Ibmec was first founded in Rio de Janeiro. It was Brazil's first educational institution to offer a MBA program in Finance[4]
Ibmec Rio de Janeiro has two locations. The main campus is located at Av. Presidente Wilson, 118 – CEP. 20030-020 – Centro – Rio de Janeiro and offers undergraduate courses in Business, Economics, Law, International Relations and Accounting. The campus located at Av. Ministro Ivan Lins, 304 – Barra da Tijuca – Rio de Janeiro is now offering a new undergraduate course in Industrial Engineering.
Ibmec São Paulo
Ibmec first programs in São Paulo[5] were launched in 1987. In 2004, Ibmec São Paulo was donated to Instituto Veris and became a non-profit institution, solely devoted to research and teaching. Ibmec Minas and Rio de Janeiro are managed by Veris Educacional S.A., with a different structure of educational programs.
In 2007, Ibmec's Executive Education courses were listed 42nd in the world by the Financial Times.[6] In 2008, the Financial Times listed Ibmec's Executive Education program as the 34th in the world. In 2009, the "Financial Times" listed Ibmec's Executive Education program as the 27th in the world, ranking as the best business institution in Brazil. (In 2019, the school is not mentioned in the Financial Times.[7]) In the 2009 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report[8] the school was ranked 10th in South America. (In 2019, the school is not mentioned by QS.[9])
Alliances and Partner Institutions of Ibmec
The MBA programs taught by the university are accredited by the London-based Association of MBAs (AMBA).
In 2017, Ibmec joined the European Foundation for Management Development, an international not-for-profit association, based in Brussels, Belgium and Europe's largest network association in the field of management development.[10]
To be on a par with world's best business schools, Ibmec maintains strong international relationships with several schools worldwide.
Ibmec makes available to students (especially graduate students) case studies produced by Harvard Business School Publishing as part of their learning methodology. In 2007, case studies produced by the faculty of Ibmec also began to be used, all involving the business problems faced by companies in the Brazilian and international contexts.
List of the international institutions which have partnerships with Ibmec: