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BSE Class Profile 2020
The 2019-20 academic year marks the 13th edition of master's programs at the Barcelona School of Economics. As in years past, the students granted admission to this cohort were selected from a competitive field of applicants from all over the world.
The 193 men and women who matriculated this September come from 43 countries, and before they entered the BSE's classrooms, their CVs already included degrees from top universities and, in many cases, work experience at consulting firms, government agencies, research institutions, and international organizations.
Here is a brief profile of the classmates a that a Master's student in the BSE Class of 2020 will meet this year:
Academic backgrounds
Most students have undergraduate degrees in Economics or Finance. Others come from Engineering, Mathematics, or other backgrounds. Institutions, where the BSE Class of 2020 obtained their previous degrees, include many of those at the top of the international university rankings for Economics and Econometrics (QS Rankings 2019).
Universities where some members of the Class of 2020 obtained their previous degrees:
- Bocconi University (Italy)
- Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands)
- Free University of Berlin (Germany)
- HEC Lausanne (Switzerland)
- Higher School of Economics (Russia)
- Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Mexico)
- Koç University (Turkey)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany)
- Monash University (Australia)
- National Research University Higher School of Economics (Poland)
- Nova School of Business and Economics (Portugal)
- Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (France)
- Peking University (China)
- Queen Mary University of London (UK)
- Sciences Po (France)
- Toulouse School of Economics (France)
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
- Universidad Carlos III (Spain)
- Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
- University College London - UCL (UK)
- University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- University of Cambridge (UK)
- University of Cape Town (South Africa)
- University of Edinburgh (UK)
- University of Groningen (Netherlands)
- University of Manchester (UK)
- University of Mannheim (Germany)
- University of Michigan (USA)
- University of Oxford (UK)
- University of Pennsylvania (USA)
- University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (Italy)
- University of Sydney (Australia)
- University of Zurich (Switzerland)
- Zhejiang University (China)
Work experience before entering the BSE Master's
While many students joined the master's immediately after obtaining their undergraduate degrees, others took internships or trainee positions before joining the BSE, while some current students have significant professional experience.
Countries of origin
Like all the cohorts before them, the Class of 2020 is very international. Students come from 43 different countries, with 85% of students coming from outside of Spain and 35% of students coming from outside Europe.
Most represented countries (# students):
Spain (29), Italy (28), Turkey (16), United States (15), United Kingdom (13) India (9), Germany (9), China (8)
Number of countries with only one student: 18