The first postgraduate program will begin in summer 2012.

Università Bocconi, thanks to an initiative of SDA Bocconi School of Management, strengthens its presence in India through an alliance with Ultimate Knowledge System, which gathers a group of young Indian entrepreneurs, to launch MISB Bocconi, the Mumbai International School of Business Bocconi. Thanks to the experience and the recognized academic quality of Bocconi and its business school, SDA Bocconi School of Management - respectively the leading Italian university in the fields of economics and management, and among the top 10 European business schools according to the Financial Times rankings - MISB Bocconi presents itself on the Indian higher education market to offer Indian postgraduate students and managers programs of an elevated academic standard and strong international outlook.

“MISB Bocconi opens our university to a new path for the internationalization strategy which has led us to over 200 partner schools in all five continents and to offer our students 16 double degree programs, one with the Indian Institute of Management- Ahmedabad,” explained Guido Tabellini, rector of Università Bocconi, at a press conference in Mumbai to launch the new school. “It is in fact the first initiative in which, together with entrepreneurial partners, we give birth to a postgraduate education program aimed exclusively at Indian students and managers. We have chosen India,” continued the Bocconi rector, “ to set up this new project because of both the strong request for managerial education in the Indian market and the deep-rooted experience which Bocconi has in this country beginning in 2000 when we signed our first agreement with a partner university in India.”

The first program offered by MISB Bocconi will be the Post Graduate Program in Business (PGPB), which will start in July 2012, a high-level international program in management centered on the realities of the Indian market and business world. Lessons will be held by a mix of Indian, international and Bocconi faculty. The program will be a combination of theory and real practice in close contact with the business world and will be organized into two modules of eleven months each. The first module will cover disciplines such as marketing, economics, corporate strategy and finance, concluding with a summer project with a planned internship, an entrepreneurial project or research project. The second module will also include the option of study at a Bocconi partner school or an exchange semester at Bocconi’s campus in Milan and a group consultancy project in close collaboration with a company.

Università Bocconi will guarantee the quality of the courses in accordance with international academic standards and will also draw upon its network of Indian corporate partners with which it already works to offer internships and work experience for its students.

To complete the offer of MISB Bocconi it is foreseen that the school will also launch executive education programs for Indian and multinational companies, operating on the Indian market, in fields such as finance, entrepreneurship and family business, and fashion/design management, drawing upon the experience of SDA Bocconi School of Management and the leadership of Dean Alberto Grando.