SDA Bocconi

SDA Bocconi School of Management
SDA Bocconi School of Management building
Motto	Empowering lives through knowledge and imagination
Former names	Business School of Bocconi University
Established	1971 (1971)
Type	School
Parent institution	Bocconi University
Location	Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Dean	Giuseppe Soda
Website	www.sdabocconi.it

SDA Bocconi School of Management is the graduate business school of Bocconi University and is considered one of the most prestigious business schools in the world. SDA Bocconi offers executive, custom and MBA programs, as well as specialised masters, and regularly takes on research projects on commission.

In 1998, SDA Bocconi was the first school in Italy to be accredited by EQUIS and it's now one of only 71 business schools worldwide to hold the "triple crown", having been accredited by three international accreditation associations: AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA (Association of MBAs). The School has also been accredited by CSQNet and holds the ISO 9001:2000 quality rating from the Funded Projects Services Center.

SDA Bocconi is a member of the European Foundation for Management Development, AACSB International (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), EABIS (The Academy of Business in Society), ECGI (European Corporate Governance Institute), PIM (Partnership in International Management), CEMS (Community of European Management Schools and International Companies) – the last two alongside Bocconi University – and ASFOR (Associazione Italiana per la Formazione Manageriale).

In 2015, Bocconi was ranked 7th in the world for business and management studies by QS World University Rankings. In the same year, the Financial Times also ranked SDA Bocconi's MBA program 26th in world while Forbes ranked SDA Bocconi as having the 4th best one-year international MBA programs in the world.

In 2013, Times Higher Education placed Bocconi 24th in the world for producing the highest number of millionaires.

SDA Bocconi was placed 8th in the European Business School Ranking and 25th amongst the international Business Schools featured in the 2012 Executive Education Rankings published by the Financial Times. SDA Bocconi is also the only Italian School amongst the top 100 in the FT Global MBA Rankings, and the first and only Italian institution for the Full-Time MBA. SDA Bocconi also features in the rankings of the Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Businessweek.

In 2011, SDA Bocconi's MBA program was ranked 1st in the world in terms of return-on-investment.