RSM The Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University (or RSM Erasmus University) is an international business school located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The business school of the renowned Erasmus University Rotterdam, RSM offers a wide array of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes taught mostly in English including a top-ranked MBA programme that is not associated with the rest of the university, senior management seminars, and a PhD programme. RSM utilises its location in the commercial heart of Europe and its core Dutch values of openness, tolerance and flexibility, as a platform for its primary focus – the development of leaders in global business. The university has been ranked among the top 20 best business schools in the world by The Wall Street Journal international rankings. The Financial Times has ranked RSM as one op the top 10 European Business Schools. RSM has achieved Triple Crown Accreditation from AMBA, EQUIS and AACSB, and is part of the respected consortium of Europe's leading school's and corporate partners - Community of European Management Schools (CEMS). RSM is also a member of the Partnership in International Management (PIM) network. The school is also highly international - in some programmes, non-Dutch students represent 96% of the total number
History and Background of the RSM
History at a Glance
1913 Foundation of Netherlands School of Commerce 1938 Netherlands School of Economics 1969 Foundation of Graduate School of Management 1969 Nobel Prize awarded to Erasmus Professor Jan Tinbergen 1973 Foundation of Erasmus University 1985 Start of the Master of Business Administration Program 1988 Start of the MBA/MBI Program 1989 Start of RSM Executive Education 1996 Start of weekend part-time Executive MBA 2000 RSM enters new century in brand-new building 2001 Start of Master in HR Leadership and Master in Financial Management
EUR / FBK / FEW
The roots of the Rotterdam School of Management lead back to 1966, where a perceived lack of appropriate training for managers in The Netherlands induced Royal Dutch Shell, together with other companies including Philips, to set up the Foundation for Business Administration (Stichting Bedrijfskunde) to provide post-experience management education.
In 1969, the foundation established a "Graduate School of Management" alongside the Foundation, which was now a joint venture between Technische Universiteit Delft and the Netherlands School of Economics at Rotterdam (now Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam). The Inter-university Institute Bedrijfskunde offered a two-year program to students holding a "candidaats" degree (bachelors equivalent) leading to a doctorandus degree (masters level) in business administration. The program delivered about 1,800 graduates. When the "candidaats" degree was abolished by new legislation in 1981, the "post-candidaats" program was terminated too. Instead, a regular first tier program in business administration and a post-graduate (and progressively post-experience) MBA program was initiated.
the full-time MBA was launched in the fall of 1985. Strategically, the MBA had multiple goals. It was to act as a continuation of the Interfaculteit Bedrijfskunde program developed by Erasmus Universititeit Rotterdam (EUR) and Technische Universiteit Delft in the 70s, round out the course offering, generate income, and develop international prestige. One year later, in 1986, the Foundation Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), was set up as the School's separate vehicle for postgraduate programs. Since its founding, RSM has become a leading graduate business school in Europe and built a reputation of being among the top business schools in the world.
In 1989, several non-degree programs and tailor-made executive and in-company programs were started for organizations in both the profit and the non-profit sector. In 1988, the post-graduate International MBI Program in Business Informatics was launched and since 1991, the MBI has been fully integrated with the full-time MBA program as a parallel track, dual degree MBA/MBI program.
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