The privately owned Stockholm School of Economics was founded in 1901 and is one of Europe’s leading business schools and Sweden’s first university to be fully accredited by EQUIS. One of the goals of the SSE is that students and employees should feel welcomed in the School regardless of their ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, social background or disabilities. The school is well-known for its global activities in cities like Tokyo, Riga, St. Petersburg and Helsinki.