About Estonian Business School

EBS is a community for growth and responsibility, turning knowledge into action and action into impact.

Estonian Business School is the oldest privately owned business university in the Baltics. It is home to over 1000 students who are driven to make an impact. We provide the knowledge, skills, and mindset that help turn ambition into achievement — from High School to Doctoral level.

Our Mission

Help people grow into capable and responsible leaders. EBS combines academic knowledge with practical learning, entrepreneurship and collaboration, giving students the confidence and skills to make informed decisions and create value in their organisations and communities.

Vision

We aim to be a leading Northern European entrepreneurial university ecosystem. A place where students, researchers, entrepreneurs, alumni and partners learn from one another, develop new ideas and build solutions that have economic and societal value.

Principles

We believe academic quality and entrepreneurship belong together. Our decisions and actions are guided by integrity, responsibility and respect, with attention to the wider impact we create through education, research, partnerships and entrepreneurship.

Core values of Estonian Business School

Community

Community is the foundation of the Estonian Business School. EBS values a diverse, international, and inclusive university community that brings students, faculty, alumni, and partners together to learn, create, and make a meaningful impact. EBS connects people, perspectives, and ideas across borders, disciplines, and generations. Through openness, collaboration, trust, and mutual respect, EBS creates an environment where people can learn from one another, build lasting relationships, and contribute to shared progress. Learning, research, and innovation at EBS are shaped through co-creation with external partners and society at large, ensuring relevance and real-world engagement

Growth

EBS values continuous growth through curiosity, experimentation, reflection, and action. As an entrepreneurial university, EBS embraces new ideas, challenges assumptions, and learns from both success and failure. By combining high-quality research, education, innovation, and real-world challenges, EBS turns knowledge into practical solutions. EBS continuously develops how it learns, teaches, innovates, and creates impact, supporting the growth of its students, faculty, alumni, partners, and wider society.

Responsibility

EBS values responsibility for the impact it creates and the choices it makes. Integrity, academic quality, respect, and accountability guide EBS’s decisions, relationships, research, teaching, and everyday work. EBS considers its social, environmental, and economic impact, uses technology thoughtfully, and acts with awareness of its role in society. Through responsible education, research, innovation, and collaboration, EBS works to create lasting value for people, organisations, and society.

Estonian Business School’s credo

We must never forget that the paths people take are in our hands and that we can influence their choice of direction through education. At the top of our list of priorities is the success of our students, our alumni and those who employ them. We strive to ensure that the majority of our alumni join the ranks of the country’s foremost managers and directors and that all of our graduates are gainfully employed. A close second on our list of priorities is the success of our own employees. We strive to ensure that they enjoy a meaningful life of constant growth (both personal and professional), ample prosperity and satisfying working conditions. If things go awry in their lives, we give them our support. Rounding out our podium of priorities is society. We strive to ensure that society develops as quickly as possible in every region in which we operate. By exporting education, we promote Estonia as a rapidly evolving nation boasting a wealth of culture. Our wish, and indeed our obligation, is to provide new opportunities to and otherwise help those weaker than ourselves. The success of our school as a whole is of course our other main priority. We are convinced that this success will be ensured when our top three priorities are achieved. Every business needs to be profitable in order to survive, but profitability is also a means by which to achieve greater goals. It is like the air, the food and the water which sustain a living thing: it is not the meaning of life, but without it, there can be no life.

Madis Habakuk

Founder of Estonian Business School

Statutes of EBS