Today CBS has approximately 20,000 students and 2,000 employees,[3] and offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programmes within business, typically with an interdisciplinary and international focus.

[4] Most of the programs are taught in English, and more than half of the faculty is recruited from abroad, making CBS an international academic environment.

Other programmes combine business studies with social sciences and the humanities, offering education in the fields of IT, philosophy, politics, language, sociology, communication and others.

[11] The selection of full-time programmes complies with the three levels: CBS also offers part-time and full-time programmes in continuing education: CBS is the Danish member of CEMS - Global Alliance in Management Education and a member of Partnership in International Management (PIM), and focuses on double degree agreements with other top business schools.

[25] The Copenhagen Business School MBA program has been ranked in the Financial Times's list of Top 100 MBAs in 2021.

In 2015 CBS received the EQUIS seal of approval and thereby remains among the best 1% of business schools worldwide in terms of triple-crown accreditation.

[31] The university's notable alumni include: Prominent alumni also include Thor Haraldsson, Tarja Cronberg, Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, Sharmi Albrechtsen, Carl Frederik Waage Beck, Lene Børglum, Michael Brockenhuus-Schack, Soulaima Gourami, as well as several other entrepreneurs and Danish politicians.

[32] CBS is an urban university primarily located in four modern buildings in Frederiksberg, close to the center of Copenhagen.

[35] Owned by the Danish Pension Fund for Engineers and leased by CBS, the building includes 20,000 m2 of student classrooms, study space and offices distributed around a three-story 175 m long arcade.

[35] Kilen (The Wedge) was opened in 2006 and includes 10,000 m2 of student classrooms, study spaces, and offices for research and administration.

[38] The exterior is covered with full-story screens made of wood, matte glass or copper, which rotate in response to the Sun and weather.

[39] As part of the factory conversion, Henning Larsen Architects transformed the old raw material storage building into 3,800 m2 of modern study space.