SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS Newly reaccredited by AMBA for a five-year period, southern Sweden’s Lund University School of Economics and Management (Lusem) has held the triple crown since 2021 and offers master’s in management degrees for those with or without backgrounds in the field. Compiled by Tim Banerjee Dhoul
LOCATION
Lusem is based at Lund University’s main campus in the city of Lund, in the Skåne region of southern Sweden. The city is a mere 15 minutes by train from Sweden’s third‑largest city, Malmö and within easy reach of Copenhagen, Denmark’s capital and financial centre. Home to more than 10 million inhabitants, Sweden is the most populated of the Nordic countries and the fifth‑largest country by land area in Europe. A member of the European Union since 1995, Sweden formally joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) this year, around 12 months after neighbouring Finland.
HISTORY
COURSES
Lusem’s AMBA reaccreditation relates to two of its 13 postgraduate programmes: its master’s in management (MiM) and MSc in international strategic management. The MiM is a full-time, one-year programme that prepares graduates of other academic disciplines for management careers. The MSc option targets those who studied business as undergraduates. All students can apply for a highly competitive International Master Class, an exchange term undertaken on completion of their degree. There is also an extracurricular track on offer called Living the Sustainability Idea that focuses on pursuing change in participants’ personal and professional journeys.
Lund University is one of Northern Europe’s oldest learning institutions. Officially founded in 1666, it can trace its history in higher education by a further two centuries, back to a Franciscan studium generale that trained pastors between 1438 and 1658. The teaching of business-related subjects began in 1750, with the establishment of its first chair in economics. Departments in economics and business administration followed in 1901 and 1958 respectively, before the creation of the Faculty of Business and Economics in 1961. Lusem came into being following an organisational change in 2004.
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