Audencia has signed new international partnerships including its first agreements with academic institutions in Morocco and Uruguay. These latest accords bring the school’s total number of academic partners to 95 in 42 countries.

The breakthrough Uruguayan signatures concern the business schools of two universities in Montevideo: Universidad ORT and Universidad de Montevideo.

Established in 1942, ORT is Uruguay's largest private university, with over 9500 students, divided between five faculties and institutes. Founded just over 40 years later by a high-profile group of Law professors, Universidad de Montevideo promotes an interdisciplinary approach to both business teaching and research.

ISCAE of Casablanca becomes the school’s first Moroccan partner, while Audencia’s traditionally strong links with the USA are strengthened by two new American accords.

The first of these concerns George Washington University School of Business in Washington DC, whose campus is within blocks of The White House, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. The second US agreement has been signed with the College of Business Administration at San Diego State University, an institution that welcomes more than 6500 students a year.

The new partnerships are completed by two agreements with Asian universities. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University already boasts a network of over 250,000 alumni and has been in a phase of rapid development since the late 1990s. The final partner, Nihon University College of Commerce, Tokyo, has a history going back to 1904 and offers seven programmes via its departments of Commerce, Business and Accounting.