Umeå School of Business


The Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, USBE, or Handelshögskolan vid Umeå Universitet, is the business school of Umeå University in the north of Sweden, founded in 1989 "to strengthen education in research and business while contributing to the community". About 2000 students currently study at USBE. The School offers one Bachelor program, four undergraduate programs, seven Master's degree programs and doctoral programs.
The International atmosphere is important to the business school and it offers one undergraduate program and all Master's programs and doctoral programs entirely in English. USBE also accept many international students as exchange or degree students.
USBE is located at the very heart of the University campus, a meeting-place for all academic disciplines, improving its opportunities to co-operate across traditional academic boundaries. It also gives USBE-students an opportunity to take an active part of student environment created for the 37 000 students at Umeå University.

Organization

Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics has three departments: the Department of Business Administration, the Department of Economics and the Department of Statistics.

USBE Career Center

USBE Career Center concentrates primarily on helping its graduates in the transition between graduation and the business world.

Research

Within the Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, the Umeå Research Institute promotes research and awards funding to prospective researchers.
The School also hosts a group dedicated to research on decision-making in extreme environments. It is named Triple Ed .

Education

Master's Programs

Students

USBE has over 70 partner universities all over the world, including: