The COPPEAD Graduate School of Business of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro is a center of excellence in business education and research in Brazil. During COPPEAD's 30 years of activity, it has offered some of the most acclaimed and internationally recognized graduate and executive education programs in Latin America. Graduates of the full-time MBA program become valued business professionals who are recruited by the most prominent local and international companies.

This program has been included for the past two years among the Financial Times Top 100 Full Time MBA business schools worldwide, was the first South American school to be ranked and is one of three Latin American schools to appear in the listing.

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COPPEAD was a pioneer in the introduction of business executive education in Brazil, and its highly reputed general, specialized and in-company programs for top and middle management are favored by Brazil's most important corporations. Over the years, the school has developed distinctive partnerships with some of the best business schools in the world, with which it maintains student and faculty exchange programs and other forms of collaboration.

Link to COPPEAD website: http://www.coppead.ufrj.br/