IE’s facilities

One of the factors you might take into consideration before applying and ultimately go to a B-School is the MBA’s program campus buildings and facilities.
IE’s MBA campus is located in one of the most important and busiest street of Madrid. Right in the heart of Barrio Salamanca is near the city’s center and 2 km away from Madrid’s financial district. IE’s campus is just five minutes away walking from Gregorio Marañon metro station and 10 minutes walking to Avenida de las Americas metro-bus-cercanias station. Madrid’s communications infrastructures can take you to the airport, through Avenida de las Americas, in 20 minutes. The majority of students have been able to find a room in the area and go walking to school.
But being in such privileged location has some disadvantages. The main inconvenience I have acknowledged after getting in the MBA, unfortunately I did not do it before, is the lack of space. IE has tried to use every single square meter of its facilities maximizing the number of classrooms and meeting-rooms, not taking into consideration the importance of others areas as a student cafeteria, sport courts and a bigger library.
The classrooms area is about 60 square meters where a session of 60 students must be seated and some times work in groups. Something I find very difficult just because the desks do not help a lot. This year IMBA is composed of 7 sessions, 5 English sessions and 2 Spanish sessions. For the first time IE has accepted more students than ever. We are just over 400 students, only in the International MBA, and the infrastructure has not improved or has been able to adapt for this change. In some conferences IE had presented, students have seated in the floor so we do not miss anything.
Even though I am lucky enough not to be affected by the accessibility problems IE infrastructure presents, I ask myself, How IE would support students with physical disabilities? What could be the return of investment of building ramps or elevators in IE’s campus?