EADA opens a second campus in Barcelona
The Eada business school opens its second campus in the center of Barcelona next year, in a 4,200 m² building that it has rented from the Catalana Occidente insurance company.
The board of trustees of the school, chaired by Koke Pursals, has chosen to accelerate the expansion of the center’s spaces to accommodate undergraduate students, after the launch of the Global Bachelor of Business Administration (GBBA) together with the French school Skema , and before the entry into operation of a second degree in technology next year.
The building, owned by the Catalana Occidente insurance company, is located at 216 Provença Street, very close to the current campus of the school at 204 Aragó Street (in which it has 4,500 m²). The building has nine floors, parking, and has just been remodeled. Eada also has another building, called Campus 3, in Collbató, where it has more than 9,000 m² dedicated to the development of managerial skills.
The school has chosen to expand in the center because the location of the facilities is precisely one of the aspects that its students value most, largely international, because it allows “a total immersion experience in the city”.
urban campus
The firm has chosen to continue in the center, next to its current headquarters on Calle Aragó
Eada completely remodeled its Aragó street campus in 2019, with an investment of 8 million euros in collaboration with Núñez y Navarro, owner of the building that the school occupies for rent. This investment is added to the one made a few years earlier in the Collbató residential campus, to which 3 million were allocated.
The business school was founded in 1957 by consultants Arturo Alsina and Irene Vázquez with the support of a group of businessmen, and was initially located on Calle Muntaner and Gran Via. Ten years later it opened its first classrooms in the current location on Calle Aragón, until it occupied the entire building. In these 65 years, more than 125,000 students have passed through Eada, with a heavy weight of foreigners, who represent nearly 90% of its full-time students.
The rental of the new campus on Provença Street has been brokered by the consulting firm Cushman & Wakefield. Natalia Tost, partner of the consulting firm, assured in a statement that the choice of Eada, to be located in the center, “is becoming more and more common in companies from all sectors. In this sense, the center of Barcelona is being highly demanded for facilitating the hybrid work model thanks to its proximity to the rest of the city’s districts and its good connection with the municipalities of the metropolitan area”.