IE Business School Recognized by Poets & Quants with MBA Best In Class Award for Artificial Intelligence

IE Business School has been named the 2025 MBA Best In Class Award for Artificial Intelligence by Poets & Quants, recognizing the school’s leadership in preparing future managers to navigate and shape the AI-driven economy. The award highlights IE’s strategic commitment to innovation and its university-wide approach to integrating artificial intelligence into academic programs, executive education, and campus-wide digital transformation. 

In announcing the award, Poets & Quants underscored IE University’s agility in responding to technological change and its sustained investment in academic excellence and innovation. The recognition points to several standout strengths, including IE University’s comprehensive AI curriculum across master’s programs, its emphasis on responsible and ethical use of emerging technologies, and its early adoption of next-generation learning tools across the IE University community.

This year, IE University strengthened its global leadership in artificial intelligence through several flagship initiatives, a major collaboration with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT Edu across its academic ecosystem, a new partnership with Harvard Business Impact to co-create and pilot AI-enabled teaching and learning, and hosting the 8th annual AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society – the conference’s first appearance in continental Europe. Together, these milestones reflect IE’s institution-wide commitment to responsible innovation, advanced digital competencies, and the ethical and humanistic dimensions of AI.