The Financial Times publishes its annual ranking for Masters in Management today.

This year marks the 75th anniversary of Nyenrode Business Universiteit. It was a men’s stronghold for the first 25 years, but from 1972 women were also welcome to pursue their education. Jonneke Brunet (68) and Rika Zaat (22) have the floor.

The full-time MBA and Master of Science in Management programs of Nyenrode Business Universiteit moved up several places in the FT-ranking.

Alex Roepers, alumnus of the 1977 BBA at Nyenrode, left early 1981 for America to jump start his career. The connection Roepers always felt with Nyenrode has never faded. To make studying at Nyenrode possible for people with insufficient fund, he has realized four scholarships.

2021 is the year of the 75-year Anniversary of Nyenrode Business University. But that will not be the only anniversary we celebrate this year: this was also the month, ten years ago, that Nyenrode started its Amsterdam adventure with the purchase of the New Business School. And in recent years, the Amsterdam site has grown into a fully-fledged second university campus, equal to the one in Breukelen.

Rosa Duran (26), alumna of the Amsterdam BBA (2014) and Master in Management (2016), headed to the Greek island of Lesbos in 2018 to help with the reception of refugees.

Linsey van Oers completed her Master of Science in Financial Management at Nyenrode Business University five years ago. She is now an entrepreneur and has opened – within a short period of time – two locations of her Happiness restaurant concept: The Happiness Café and The Happiness Kitchen.

On Friday 18 May, Nyenrode will be represented by a group of Full-time MSc in Management students at the SSE Riga Finance Challenge