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KEDGE Business School is a benchmark French business school with 4 campuses in France (Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille and Toulon), 3 overseas (2 in China, in Shanghai and Suzhou, and 1 in Africa in Dakar) and 3 partner campuses (Avignon, Bastia and Bayonne). The KEDGE community is made up of 14,800 students (23% of whom are international students), 192 full-time lecturers (45% of whom are international), 201 international academic partners and 70,000 graduates worldwide. KEDGE offers a portfolio of 36 training programmes in management and design for students and industry professionals. It also provides customised educational programmes for businesses at national and international levels. KEDGE Business School is AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA-accredited, and is a member of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles. It is also recognised by the French government, with officially approved programmes, and is EESPIG-certified. KEDGE is ranked 34st by the Financial Times in the European Business School rankings and 41th globally for its Executive MBA.

The mission of ESSEC Business School, a world school with French roots, is to infuse leadership with meaning in order to prepare leaders ready to address contemporary economic, environmental and social challenges. In order to do so, it produces innovative and relevant knowledge to equip the next generation of leaders with the skills, know-how and savoir-être that will make them truly responsible, inclusive and respectful of the environment. Convinced that knowledge provides a path to freedom - Per scientiam ad libertatem - ESSEC inculcates in its students critical thinking and creativity skills that prepare them to anticipate and address the challenges of an increasingly uncertain world. ESSEC supports students in making their actions both meaningful and impactful by relying on both technology and people. It also seeks to enlighten the actions of businesses and organizations in a world transformed by the new industrial revolution, the environmental crisis, a new world balance and other major societal changes. Key figures: 71,000 ESSEC Alumni members 4 campuses (Cergy, Paris-La Défense, Singapore and Rabat) + 1 augmented digital campus 222 partner universities in 49 countries 30 double degree programs 154 permanent faculty of 36 nationalities 24 learning and research chairs +1000 partner companies 7,550 students in full-time undergraduate and graduate programs 38,32% international students +100 nationalities represented 82 PhD students +100 student organizations 5,000 managers in executive education

Choosing iaelyon School of Management is choosing to join a regionally recognized School, a School which is firmly anchored at the heart of a dynamic University with an international focus and oriented towards innovation for the benefit of professional integration. Christian Varinard, Dean of iaelyon School of Management: For over sixty years, the history of iaelyon has been shaped by the constantly renewed willingness to turn its students into the protagonists of Management Education, combining academic excellence and professional pragmatism. Our duty is to educate tomorrow’s managers and entrepreneurs with strong expertise and knowledge in Business that enables them to understand the challenges of a complex and ever changing corporate environment. Our main asset is our rich, increasingly internationalized program portfolio which we developed in close cooperation with our business and academic partners and which is nurtured by the research activities of our iaelyon Magellan Center. This portfolio is strongly influenced by diversity : diversity of student profiles, diversity of teaching procedures (initial education, work-study programs, executive education) or diversity of pathways with a particular focus on double skill curricula. The whole iaelyon community (students, administrative and academic teams, socio-economic and institutional partners) commit every day to building the common rallying project of a rationally developed School based on the essential values of humanism, equal opportunities and merit.