WU Executive Academy – Executive Education at the Highest International Level

The WU Executive Academy of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Europe’s largest business university, brings more than 100 years of experience and an excellent reputation to the field of executive education and belongs to the leading business universities worldwide.

The executive education portfolio of the WU Executive Academy includes MBA and Master of Laws programs, university certificate programs, custom and short-focus programs. In recent years, it has become one of the leading providers in Central and Eastern Europe. As part of the WU, the WU Executive Academy is EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) accredited. EQUIS is an internationally recognized accreditation system offered by the European Foundation of Management. Moreover, the outstanding quality of the MBA programs has been recognized by AMBA (Association of MBAs) awarding its renowned global accreditation.

With this, the WU Executive Academy is one of only two business universities in the German-speaking world to meet the high quality standards of both accreditations.

Current achievements of the WU Executive Academy:

• Financial Times European Business School Ranking (2013): # 42
• Financial Times Executive MBA Ranking (2014):
  • # 62 worldwide
    • # 9 work experience
    • # 16 international course experience
  • # 5 in DACH
• Personal Magazin (2013): Among the Top 40 business schools worldwide
• Ziarul Financiar MBA Ranking (2014): #1 MBA in Romania

Each year, as many as 750 graduate students and about 1,200 managers, experts and high potential from over 75 countries study in our executive education programs. At present, residencies and programs are con­ducted in more than 15 countries on three continents.

Being part of the WU, the WU Executive Academy provides access to the expertise of some 1200 faculty members and countless experts in more than 200 partner universities all over the world.