The Zagreb School of Economics and Management (ZSEM) is Croatia’s first AACSB-accredited business school, recognized for academic excellence and a strong international focus. With over 1,000 students and 3,000 alumni, ZSEM plays a key role in shaping Croatia’s business and economic landscape.
ZSEM earned AACSB accreditation in 2013, reaffirmed in 2019 and 2024, confirming its dedication to the highest global standards in business education. In 2020 ZSEM was evaluated as the best Higher Education institution in Croatia in the field of economics and business by the Croatian Agency for Science and Higher Education. ZSEM is ranked within the TOP 200 in the QS Global MBA Rankings 2020 and top 60 MBA programs in Europe.
As a member of the EUonAIR alliance, ZSEM actively contributes to the European University Alliance initiative, enhancing cross-border collaboration and innovation in higher education.
ZSEM is in the process of re-inventing itself from a traditional economics and business university into an institution with a strong focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. In that process, ZSEM built relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders in Croatian start-up and entrepreneurial sector, including the two Croatian unicorns – Rimac-Bugatti and Infobip as well incubators (ZICER – the largest incubator in Croatia) and VC funds (Fil Rouge Capital – largest VC fund in the CEE region), etc. ZSEM closely collaborates with leading Croatian agri-tech company AGRIVI, co-founded by the ZSEM alumni as well as leading regional healthcare think tank HealthHUB. Furthermore, ZSEM takes part in the Global Social Entrepreneurship Challenge – Fowler, where students address and create a solution on the basis of one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
ZSEM’s strong focus on entrepreneurship coupled with excellence in education recently culminated in a huge international success – the Erasmus Mundus Master in Impact Entrepreneurship (EMMIE), jointly delivered by ZSEM, HEC Liege (Belgium) and ISM University (Lithuania), was recently awarded the highly coveted Erasmus Mundus status.
