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Accusations of fraud and misconduct carried out by Graduate School of Management Barcelona Graduate School of Management Barcelona is working under the auspices of UAB (Universidad Autonomo de Barcelona) but this will be the last term with this connection. Due to many irregularities UAB and EUSS have decided to terminate their connection with GSM Barcelona, there graduate courses being offered, as mentioned in this article above, are not available. Some of these irregularities are as follows:

1: Course Fees:  GSM claims that the price of the course is €9,800 for the course and after a grant is applied (offered, supposedly by The Saint Diodor Foundation) it is reduced to €6,700 but in the UAB website the real TOTAL price IS €6,700 (http://www.uab.cat/servlet/Satellite/postgrado/master-en-information-sciences-in-business-and-marketing/datos-basicos-1206597472083.html/param1-1278_es/param2-2004/) so either the price has been inflated to apply a grant that was never real (most probable as these "Scholarships" were granted instantaneously with no process of selection) or the grants are applied from the Foundation above the real price.

2: Employees. Some employees are not really an employee at all. Students are only permitted to work a maximum of 16 hours a week, yet assistants with only a student visa is clearly working full time, at least 8 hours a day. This IS fraud against the Spanish Social Security System.

3: Plagiarism. Presentation written and prepared by qualified professors have had the authors name removed and been used by other teachers without the permission of the authors.

4: Grants: As previously mentioned Grants are “Applied” immediately and never verified with the donor, The Saint Diodor Foundation.

5: Structure. Much publicity is made that GSM is formed by various universities but the reality is that it is just a private company with a collaboration agreement with EUSS which has been given notice of termination (as of 22 October 2012 signed by Dr. Carlos Rubio Garcia, Dean of EUSS). This information has not been sent to the agencies or publicized or even mentioned to anyone applying to GSM.

4. Faculty members. Names of various professors are listed in the website as faculty member which are no longer employed by the school. This is committed by the school to give the false impression of a larger organization.

5: Diploma mills: There are photos of the Director of GSM Barcelona at the award ceremony in India of International Graduate School, NOT a real business school but a front for giving out worthless degrees.

At the forefront of this is the School’s Director, Dr.(Not a proven title) Tatiana Kompaniets who is the visible only administrator and therefore totally responsible for irregularities occurring in Graduate School of Management Barcelona.