Stockholm School of Economics

The Stockholm School of Economics, known as SSE and in Swedish as Handelshogskolan i Stockholm, is a private business school in the Vasastan district of central Stockholm, Sweden. It offers bachelor's, master's, MBA, doctoral and executive education programs, is accredited by EQUIS and is a member of the CEMS alliance. The school was formally founded in 1909 on private initiative as a response to rapid industrialization and a growing need for educated businessmen and company managers, after lobbying funded by the banker Knut Agathon Wallenberg and the business community of Stockholm, and it was the first business school established in Sweden. Although founded as a business school, economics featured prominently in its research and curriculum from the beginning, and it became the home of the economists around the Stockholm school of doctrine. SSE has founded sister schools in Riga and in Russia and operates a research institute in Tokyo.