After six years of its foundation, the International Academic Center – CEISA, located in Madrid, Spain, receives the largest number of students in a single week.

April becomes historic for CEISA because in only one week received 154 undergraduate and graduate students from eight different programs. This figure corresponds to about 60% of the total of students who visited the Center of International Excellence in the same month of 2017.

Indeed, for a week, students of the MBA, the Executive MBA, the masters in Energy Management and Tax Management, the specializations in Law and the School of Communication, lived a global academic experience, from experts from different latitudes and, in addition, visited multinationals of high prestige and recognition.

CEISA was created in 2012 with the clear determination to promote the internationalization of the students of Sergio Arboleda University through comprehensive and global education, indispensable for today’s professionals. This experience in Madrid, gives the students three important values: interaction with international professors and European entrepreneurs; the possibility to be in contact with companies and institutions that allow the application of the knowledge acquired, and the direct approach to the cultural and business ecosystem in Spain and other European countries.

“CEISA has brought about a paradigm shift in the teaching methodology that had characterized the Latin America university model, based on the master class”, says Emiliano García Coso, academic director of the International Center.

Those who visit this center, located in Pozuelo de Alarcón, a city and municipality near Madrid, find a modern building of almost 2,000 square meters, equipped with nine classrooms each with a capacity for approximately 25 people, two expandable rooms, a library and an auditorium with capacity for 100 attendees.

“The facade of the CEISA is very modest, but when you enter, the building is very attractive: the classrooms are modern, innovative, clean and illuminated. The administrative area is comfortable, you have somewhere to sit and always you have someone that can help you”, recalls David Narváez, a graduate of International Advertising, who traveled to Spain in 2013.

The numbers speak for themselves. Since it foundation, this international center has received more than 5,000 visitors from Sergio Arboleda University and other international institutions, who have had the opportunity to live a true academic and cultural exchange.

For the remainder of 2018, more than 30 International Academic Weeks are scheduled for undergraduate and postgraduate students of La Sergio and other national and foreign institutions.