IMD Business School
“World-leading executive education on Lake Geneva”
IMD Business School
“World-leading executive education on Lake Geneva”
19,000+
Students
10:1
Student-Teacher Ratio
100+
Nationalities
1990
Year Founded
About the School
IMD Business School is a private graduate and executive business school in Lausanne, Switzerland, consistently ranked among the world's top institutions for executive education. Founded in 1990 from the merger of IMI (Geneva, 1946) and IMEDE (Lausanne, 1957), IMD is best suited to mid-career professionals and senior executives rather than school-age or undergraduate students. Its programmes include a one-year MBA, Executive MBA, MSc in Sustainable Management and Technology, custom and open executive education, online programmes, and executive certificates and diplomas. What differentiates IMD is its industrial corporate heritage, small cohort intakes, and exclusive focus on real-world leadership impact across business strategy, AI and digital transformation, sustainability, and global competitiveness. Families considering Swiss higher education often look to IMD for its Lausanne lakeside campus, top-tier global rankings, including #1 worldwide for custom programmes by the Financial Times in 2025, and clear pathway into executive and board-level careers in multinational organisations.
Located in the beautiful Lausanne, VD, IMD Business School has been providing exceptional education since 1990. With a student body of 19,000+ students from around the world, the school offers a truly international learning environment with instruction in English.
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