Next year, the Eada business school will open its second campus in the center of Barcelona, 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, which it calls 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, largely international, value the most, because it allows "a total immersion experience in the city".
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
