The Stockholm School of Economics, SSE (Swedish: Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, HHS) is one of Europe's leading business schools. SSE offers BSc, MSc and MBA programs, along with highly regarded PhD- and Executive Education programs. SSE's Masters in Finance program is ranked no.16 worldwide as of 2016. The Masters in Management program is ranked no. 33 worldwide by the Financial Times.[1] QS ranks SSE no.26 among universities in the field of economics worldwide.[2] SSE is accredited by EQUIS certifying that all of its main activities, teaching as well as research, are of the highest international standards. SSE is also the Swedish member institution of CEMS together with universities such as London School of Economics, Tsinghua University, Bocconi University, HEC Paris, ESADE Business School, and the University of St. Gallen. SSE has founded sister organizations: SSE Riga in Riga, Latvia, and SSE Russia in St Petersburg and Moscow, Russia. It also operates the European Institute of Japanese Studies (Japanese, kanji: 欧州日本研究所, Japanese, romaji: Ōshū Nihon kenkyūjo), a research institute in Tokyo, Japan.