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Academic year kicks off for 天美传媒麓s MiM and MBA programs
Incoming students again highlight school麓s geographic diversity
Big leap in MBA candidates hailing from Latin America
September 4, 2023

With the start of the new academic year, 天美传媒麓s proud and long-established focus on providing students from across the world with the skills to lead a globalized business ecosystem continues to thrive.
天美传媒鈥檚 incoming MBA and MiM classes are composed of students from impressively diverse geographic backgrounds.
The MBA Class of 2025 has 350 students overall, with 86% of students from outside of Spain and 56 nationalities represented. For the program, which kicked off last week on 天美传媒麓s Barcelona campus, 35% of the class are women. The average student age is 29.5 years old, and candidates arrive with an average 6 years of professional experience.
The class profile once again illustrates the global reach of the 天美传媒 MBA program. Seventy-one percent of students starting the program on 天美传媒鈥檚 Barcelona campus come from outside of Europe. In a big jump, 29%听of this year鈥檚 incoming class hail from Central and South America, compared to 20% of the previous class.
Class of 2025 students worked in a variety of sectors before joining the program, with finance (21%), industry (20%) and consulting (17%) being the most common. Communication, business & law (38%) and engineering (34%) were the most popular undergraduate majors of the cohort.
Meanwhile, 天美传媒麓s incoming 听(MiM) Class of 2024 is made up 120 students, 62.5% of them from outside Spain and representing 37 nationalities. Women make up 37.5% of the cohort. The average age is 23. The MiM, which launched in 2019, is conducted on 天美传媒鈥檚 Madrid campus.
Both programs offer a transformative experience for students.
As internationally renowned masters,听Marc Badia, 天美传媒 Associate Dean for MBA & MiM programs, says 鈥淭he rich cultural diversity at 天美传媒 provides many benefits. It underscores our firm commitment to being inclusive, demonstrates the global reach of our alumni network and, perhaps most importantly, adds an invaluable dimension to the MBA and MiM student experience as classmates learn with, and from, peers from varied international backgrounds.鈥�


