Welcome to CST MBA!

We are thrilled that you have chosen to join us at IE Business School for what will be an intense and transformational learning journey.  We want to be part of your transformation, helping you to better understand who you are now and to define and pursue your Next Best You.  

You will spend this year working hard and enjoying Madrid with a group of incredibly diverse classmates from around the world. Despite your diversity, you will share a common goal for the year:  To successfully complete your Master, maximizing your learning while at the same time taking advantage of the myriad extracurricular activities available within the University as well as in the city of Madrid.  Throughout this year you will grow professionally and personally, build a toolbox of job-focused skills and knowledge, and explore and refine your career objectives.

The initiation of your program is the first important milestone in your IE journey. Therefore, we have carefully organized this website to help you navigate the IE terrain and to make sure that you have available the most important information you will need. We have included academic norms as well as practical matters about getting settled in Madrid and organizing your day-to-day life as a student. This website was designed to be useful to you and we hope that you will make full use of it throughout the year.

This will be a very challenging year for you, as you learn to work with people from different backgrounds and cultures, learn to navigate a new city in a language that for most of you is not your own.  Your coursework and projects will be deliberately intense, forcing you to make choices about how to prioritize your own time, how to work most effectively in your teams, and how to strike the appropriate balance between your studies and the rest of your life.

We ask you to start your program with an open mind and a readiness to look for game-changing moments that will catalyze new mindsets, new ways of thinking, and new behaviors. 

This is easily said, but in practice, it is a feat not always easily accomplished.  Be patient with your classmates and teammates who may think and work very differently than you.  Be open to learning from each of your professors, whether you personally “click” with their style or not.  Be open to the fact that you have professional behaviors that might need a bit of fine-tuning, and that postgraduate studies at IE offer you a safe laboratory for experimenting with who you are and who you might become as a professional and as a person. Fine-tuning your critical thinking skills and behavioral skills will last a lifetime and enable you to have real impact, in the many challenging workplace and interpersonal situations you will encounter in your professional life after IE. 

We hope you will get to know your academic and program teams and reach out to them as valuable resources who can help you make good decisions as you progress in your program.  They are here to help ensure that your journey goes smoothly and they will happy to address any questions and concerns that arise during the year. Welcome again to IE University, to IE Business School and I wish you the best in what will likely be one of the most memorable years of your life!