| Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration | |
| Native Name: | Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas |
| Established: | 1952 |
| Affiliations: | Fundação Getulio Vargas |
| Dean: | Flavio Carvalho de Vasconcelos |
| Students: | 800 |
| City: | Rio de Janeiro |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Former Names: | EBAP |
| Coor: | -22.9421°N -43.1794°W |
| Website: | http://www.ebape.fgv.br |
The Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas (EBAPE, Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration) is a Brazilian private higher education institution founded in April 1952 and linked to the Fundação Getúlio Vargas. The School also works as a research institution. Its academic programs include: Undergraduate in Administration, Online Undergraduate in Technological Management Processes (FGV Online), Master of Public Administration, Executive Master of Business Administration, Doctor of Administration and Post-Doctorate in Administration.
EBAPE has played an important role in training university and government personnel both in Brazil and in other countries in Latin America and Africa, also fostering cooperation between institutions and exchange programs. Over the years, these programs have been an incentive for developing joint research efforts and technical counseling projects with other Administration Schools.
Its academic policy is formulated by the Consultative Council made up of its faculty members. The Board of Directors is responsible for the administration of the School, though its Academic Training and Research Centers, Lato Sensu Graduate Center and Consultancy, Training and Managerial Development Centers.
In addition to the activities conducted at its head offices in Rio de Janeiro, EBAPE has extended and consolidated its work in regional centers around the country and abroad. Special programs in technical training and consultancy are held in Brasília and other Brazilian cities.
Located at the headquarters of the foundation, the undergraduate program of EBAPE is recognized as one of the best business schools of Brazil and even Latin America, although being part of a great and famous university, it is a school for a very restricted number of students. The school offers only 50 seats per year and currently has less than 400 students.
Despite the little number of students, EBAPE is one of the few schools of Brazil that has about 50 full-time professors.
All professors are PhDs and virtually all recently graduated students are already employed.[1]
The program is divided into two cycles. The first two years constitute the Basic Management Cycle comprises courses that are the core issues and concepts central to the formation of the administrator. Matters concerning the area of mathematics develop the habit of logical and objective.
During the past two years that comprise the Professional Cycle, that provides students with the tools and expertise related to business administration and public policy. The disciplines to be taught in the last four semesters of course complement the knowledge acquired in Basic Cycle. The Professional Cycle also features two distinct emphases in Public Administration and Business Administration. The student, upon entering the 7th period, should choose which branch he would like to take to further the studies.
The college has strong rules of conduct and behavior, where no student or employee can enter the building dressed in shorts or slippers. It also hardly supports festivals or sporting events.
EBAPE regulates the graduate course in technological management processes in partnership with FGV Online.This course is recognized by Associação Brasileira dos Estudantes de Educação a Distância (ABE-DL, Brazilian Association of Students of Distance Education) as the best distance learning course in the country, where only the FGV has received top marks in the assessment.[2]
The EBAPE publishes since 1967, the Revista de Administração Pública (Public Administration Magazine), printed bi-monthly, with high circulation in the technical-scientific sector.The publication receives sponsorship financing from:
The Revista Portuguesa e Brasileira de Gestão (Brazilian and Portuguese Journal of Management), is a joint publication of INDEG/ISCTE and the Fundação Getulio Vargas since 2002, with simultaneous distribution in Portugal and Brazil, is a quarterly that provides a scientific approach and also disseminates the various areas of Management .
The Revista Acadêmica Observatório de Inovação do Turismo (Journal of Academic Innovation Centre Tourism) is an initiative of the Center for Tourism of EBAPE, in partnership with the Brazilian Tourism Institute (Embratur), created with the purpose to serve the discussion of topics related to public and private management of tourism-oriented balance between theoretical and practical approaches.
The journal, published quarterly, is divided into three sections: articles, case studies and theoretical essays, book reviews and interviews. Your target audience consists of teachers, researchers, students, professionals and individuals interested in the literature of tourism. The magazine's mission is to stimulate the production and dissemination of knowledge about tourism that can contribute to academic activities and actions in public and private organizations.
The IGC (General Index of Courses) is an annual ranking made by MEC, the Brazilian Ministry of Education, through INEP.[3] [4] EBAPE is one of the 11 brazilian universities that got the highest concept on all evaluations.