Business School Lausanne: Effective business training and graduate as well as undergraduate studies should prepare students for the reality of the business world, and BSL continues to be an innovator in how to do this. It has a unique combination of approaches in three key areas:

• classes of maximum 20 people sitting around a conference table ensure optimum opportunity to participate and enhance the learning experience.
• a faculty of experienced, business practitioners bring the real world of business into the classroom.
• with over 30 nationalities in the school, students are exposed to a wide variety of problem solving approaches.

Business School Lausanne, a private, not-for-profit business school in Switzerland, is managed by successful entrepreneurs, so we live every day what we teach. The benefit for graduates is that they are able to make an immediate contribution to business success.In addition to BSL, Lausanne is also home to IMD (International Institute for Management Development) and EHL (Ecole hôteliére de Lausanne). Together they have established a worldwide reputation for Lausanne as a leading center for undergraduate and graduate management education. The three schools complement each other by:

• IMD focusing on corporate executives
• EHL focusing on hotel management
• BSL focusing on entrepreneurs.

Several members and resident executives of IMD have obtained their doctoral degrees at Business School Lausanne. After graduation at BSL, our alumni have continued their learning process at some of the world’s finest educational institutes. Independent recognition of the quality of the BSL business programs comes from ACBSP (Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs) in the USA; BSL was the first business school in Europe to achieve this accolade. BSL also has ISO 9001 Certification, recognized by businesses worldwide as THE guarantee of quality.More recently, BSL became Switzerland’s first university-level management institute of Delta Mu Delta, the world’s most exclusive honor society in business education. BSL’s outstanding track record in providing top level management education has enabled us to honor our top graduates back to 1996 with a lifelong DMD membership. This has propelled BSL into becoming Europe’s largest chapter of Delta Mu Delta, underlining BSL’s important place in higher business education in Europe.