Barcelona, ES · 12 months · class of 177
Esade MBA: cost, salary and payback
€82,500 for a 12-month MBA in Barcelona, with an employment report that sits behind a request form.
Paid back after graduation in
salary not published
Total cost $182,413
| Tuition and fees, whole program | $92,413 |
| Living budget | $0 |
| Salary given up, 12 months | $90,000 |
| Total cost | $182,413 |
| Salary after: salary | not published |
US dollars at the ECB rate of the last update. Raises of 5% a year with the MBA and 3% without, discounted at 5%, before tax. The school publishes no living budget: the figure above is yours. How this is calculated.
Fees and budget read on October 13, 2026 · employment: Class of 2025 (school standard) · Built by Radif Partners · Method
- Tuition and fees
- €82,600
- Total cost, salary given up included
- n/a
- Salary
- not published
- Payback, reference person
- not computable
Esade charges €82,500 for its 12-month full-time MBA, the September 2027 intake price for tuition, materials, IT and library, plus a €100 student association fee; that is about $92,301 at the ECB rate. The fees page gives no living budget for Barcelona, and the employment report for the class of 2025 is released only through a request form, with no base salary on the open pages. So this page cannot give a total cost for the reference person earning $90,000 or a payback date, and our salary-based rankings leave Esade out. The salary the school's careers page does quote comes from a newspaper ranking survey of alumni three years after the degree, which is not a starting salary. What we can state: 90% of the class were employed within three months, 12 months away cost a person on $90,000 about $90,000 of pay, and the class is 95% international, a share only 3 schools in our data exceed.
What the open pages say, and what they leave out
Esade publishes three career figures without the form: the share of the class of 2025 employed within three months, 90%; the share who secured roles internationally, in the school's words, a little over half; and an average internship pay of $3,990 a month, with no class year attached. It also lists the companies that recruited its candidates in recent years, a mix of strategy firms and large technology groups, with no hire counts.
It does not publish a base salary, a split by industry or by region, or a response rate on the open pages. The report itself may contain them, but a document behind a lead form cannot be checked and linked by every reader, so we do not use it. If you request it, look for the median base salary, the share of graduates who reported pay and the share who were seeking a job, then type the median into the calculator above.
The salary you give up while you study
Salary given up, net of the internship
$157,500
| Gross salary not earned | $157,500 |
| Per month away | $7,500 |
Pension contributions and raises you would have had are not counted here.
The cost you can already work out
Tuition is paid in stages, starting with two deposits when you accept and reserve your place, then the balance in two parts during the year. The total does not include rent, food or travel; the school gives no estimate, so build your own from Barcelona prices. On the salary side, a one-year program keeps the pay you give up to 12 months, which is the main cost for anyone earning above about $93,000 a year.
Esade lists several ways to cut the bill: awards for women, Forte fellowships, an income share agreement backed by the European Investment Fund, and external scholarships for Spanish and Colombian candidates. It publishes no average award and no share of the class that receives one.
A fee or a salary in US dollars
In US dollars
$111,880
| 1 EUR | $1.119 |
ECB reference rate of October 13, 2026. Prices on the ground do not follow exchange rates one for one.
Against the other Spanish schools
IE charges $100,580 for 11 months, and IESE charges $130,900 for 21 months, against $92,301 for Esade. The IESE and IE comparison puts the other two Spanish programs side by side, and the Europe ranking shows which schools publish enough to rank. The class of 177 averages 30 years of age and 6 years of experience.
Where Esade stands in our rankings
Not ranked: Esade does not publish a living budget for students or a graduate salary, which our ranking needs. Its cost is complete above.
Our fit score, reference person earning $90,000 before the MBA (method). Third-party rankings play no part in it. For reference, Esade was ranked 7 in the FT Global MBA 2026.
What the Esade MBA costs
| Item | EUR, and US dollars |
|---|---|
| Tuition, whole program | €82,500 $92,301 |
| Mandatory fees | €100 $112 |
| Living budget | not published |
Esade employment report: Class of 2025
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Summer internship, per month (mean) | $3,990 |
| Graduates who employed within three months | 90% |
Employers named by Esade
Accenture · Amazon · Bain & Company · Boston Consulting Group · McKinsey & Company · Google · Microsoft · Oliver Wyman · Roland Berger · Strategy& · Simon-Kucher · Siemens · SAP · Nestle · L'Oreal · Johnson & Johnson · Roche · Citi · UBS · BBVA
Names only: the school gives no hire counts.
The Esade class
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| International students | 95% |
| Women | 42% |
| Average age | 30 |
| Average years of work experience | 6 |
| Class size | 177 |
Not published by Esade in the documents we read: a living budget for students; a graduate salary; the split of the class by industry; where graduates went to work; the split by job function. We leave these blank rather than fill them with an estimate.