ESC Rennes School of Business

ESC Rennes, founded in 1990, is a research-based business school based in Rennes, Brittany, France. Based on its student body and faculty composition, Rennes School of Business is the most internationally attended Grande École de Commerce in France: 53% of the students on campus and 91% of the faculty members (34 nationalities) come from outside France. The mission of the school is "to prepare, through education and research, innovative and responsible managers to perform in a global environment". Through activities including team assignments and mandatory international internships, students are trained to work with people from different cultural backgrounds. A great majority of the courses are taught in English.

• 1990 - École Supérieure de Commerce de Rennes (ESC Rennes) founded.[2]
• 1996 - ESC Rennes joins European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)[2]
• 1998 - ESC Rennes joins Conférence des Grandes Écoles[2]
• 2004 - Master of Science program introduced[2]
• 2007 - School renamed ESC Rennes School of Business[2]
• 2004 - Bachelor program introduced[2]
• 2010 - School opens a second campus in Rennes[2]
• 2012 - AACSB accreditation[2]
• 2013 - AMBA accreditation[2]
• 2014 - EQUIS accreditation. ESC Rennes joins the 1% of business schools with the Triple Crown.[2]
• 2016 - School renamed Rennes School of Business[2]
• 2017 - Open a residence campus for international students[2]
• 2019 - Creation of the Chair of Geopolitics[2]
• 2020 - Creation of the Chair in Cyber Risk Governance[2]
• 2021 - New campus opens in Paris[2]

Rennes School of Business is a grande école, a French institution of higher education that is separate from, but parallel and often connected to, the main framework of the French public university system. Grandes écoles are elite academic institutions that admit students through an extremely competitive process, and a significant proportion of their graduates occupy the highest levels of French society.[6][7][8] Similar to Ivy League schools in the United States, Oxbridge in the UK, and C9 League in China, graduation from a grande école is considered the prerequisite credential for any top government, administrative and corporate position in France.[9][10]

The degrees are accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles[11] and awarded by the Ministry of National Education (France).[12] Higher education business degrees in France are organized into three levels thus facilitating international mobility: the Licence / Bachelor's degrees, and the Master's and Doctorat degrees. The Bachelors and the Masters are organized in semesters: 6 for the Bachelors and 4 for the Masters.[13][14] Those levels of study include various "parcours" or paths based on UE (Unités d'enseignement or Modules), each worth a defined number of European credits (ECTS). A student accumulates those credits, which are generally transferable between paths. A Bachelors is awarded once 180 ECTS have been obtained (bac + 3); a Masters is awarded once 120 additional credits have been obtained (bac +5). The highly coveted PGE (Grand Ecole Program) ends with the degree of Master's in Management (MiM)[13][14][15]

In addition to the French Ministry of Education (French: Le Ministère de L'éducation Nationale), the Rennes School of Business is further accredited by the elite international organizations: The European Foundation for Management Development (EQUIS),[16] The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), and the Association of MBAs (AMBA),.[17][18]

A key feature of the Rennes School of Business is its commitment to providing and growing a range of specialist Masters' programmes which prepare graduates for rewarding international business careers. Rennes School of business offers Masters of Science (MSc) and Master of Arts degrees also for holders of non-French bachelors.

• International Bachelor Program in Management
• Master of Arts in International Business
• Master in Management
• 15 Masters of Science:

 1.  MSc in Global Business Management
 2.  MSc in International Accounting, Management Control & Auditing
 3.  MSc in Creative Project Management, Culture & Design
 4.  MSc in International Negotiation & Business Development
 5.  MSc in Data and Business Analytics
 6.  MSc in Strategic & Digital Marketing
 7.  MSc in Financial Data Intelligence
 8.  MSc in International Finance
 9.  MSc in Geopolitics & Business
 10. MSc in International Luxury & Brand Management
 11. MSc in Sports & Tourism Management
 12. MSc in Supply Chain Management
 13. MSc in Innovation & Entrepreneurship
 14. MSc in International Human Resource Management
 15. MSc in Sustainable Management & Eco-innovation

• PhD (full-time programs in Rennes, France, in cooperation with University College Dublin and the University of Amsterdam)
• Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) (part-time program for executives in China, Brazil and France). This programme is organized in cooperation with the School of Economics and Management at Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications in China and (as a pre-DBA) with Fundação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• MBA

Part-time programme

• MBA with 6 majors: Advanced Finance; Corporate social responsibility; Innovation & entrepreneurship; Agrofood business; Digital marketing; Supply Chain Management.

• In 2019, 53% of the 4 330 students are international.

The school has a network of more than 300 overseas partner universities on five continents. The school offers the opportunity to obtain double diplomas with 20 exchange destinations.

• 91% professors and 53% of students of non-French origin
• 70 nationalities represented on the campus
• 100% of courses taught in English in the programmes
• 16 MSc programmes are also taught entirely in English

The Association was founded by a group of ESC Rennes alumni. The association works in close partnership with Rennes School of Business and international companies to provide services to the global Rennes School of Business alumni community. In 2019, the alumni network totalizes about 19400 members, 8000 graduated students living in more than 80 countries.

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