Editing ESADE (section)

== History ==
[[File:Esade idiomas.jpg|thumb|Building 3 at Esplugues avenue]]
The Esade project was conceived in the spring of 1954 by a group of Spanish professionals and entrepreneurs who later founded the university. The school signed an agreement with the [[Jesuits]] ([[Societas Iesu]]) in October 1958 and started offering its first academic programs in a small building in the district of [[Sarrià-Sant Gervasi|Sant Gervasi, Barcelona]].<ref name="History">{{cite web|url=http://www.esade.edu/web/eng/about-esade/aboutus/history|title=ESADE History|publisher=ESADE|access-date=26 September 2017}}</ref>

In 1958, Esade was ultimately founded. Two years later, in 1960, executive education programmes were introduced. In 1964 the college's [[MBA]] programme was established. A year later, in 1965, ESADE's Barcelona campus (Av. Pedralbes) opened (Building I), as well as the Executive Language Centre. In 1993, Esade Law School opened. In 2001, the school inaugurated its campus in [[Madrid]] ([[Chamartín (Madrid)|Chamartín]]). In 2009 Esade opened a new campus in Sant Cugat (Barcelona) as well as [[ESADE#ESADE Creapolis|Esade Creapolis]], a [[technology park]] based on [[open innovation]] and situated on the new Sant Cugat campus.<ref name="History" />

Today Esade's campuses, if the premises in both [[Madrid]] and [[Barcelona]] are included, cover an area of 30,000m<sup>2</sup>.