Audencia Business School


Audencia Business School is a top Grande École and business school in France and in Europe, and is one of the only 1% of business schools in the world accredited by the Association of MBAs, European Quality Improvement System, and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Audencia is also labelled. The school enrolls 4,500 students from almost 90 countries on bachelors, international masters, specialised masters, MBAs, doctorates and executive education courses.
Audencia is consistently ranked in the top 10 business schools in France. Its MSc in co management-engineering was rated 24th in the World by the Financial Times. Audencia's Full-Time MBA is ranked 58th in the MBA ranking 2018 by CNN expansion and 90th in the world by The Economist.
The school also attracts international students from other top business schools in the world via its student exchange programs.

History

Audencia was founded in 1900 as the École Supérieure de Commerce de Nantes. Until 1970, the school occupied the building which is today home to the city’s natural history museum. It then moved into a purpose-built campus of 23,000 m² to the north of the city centre opposite Nantes University.
In 2000, the school changed its name to Audencia Nantes School of Management. The name "Audencia" is a blend of two words: audientia, which means "listening," and audacia or "boldness."
Since 2004, the school has been associated with the Global Compact, a United Nations initiative that brings together firms, the business world and the civil society united on ten universal principles relative to human rights, working conditions and the environment.
In 2015, the school was reaccredited by the three global accreditations for the maximum period of five years.
In 2016, the school changed its name to Audencia Business School which includes the bachelor and masters programmes of former schools SciencesCom and the Ecole Atlantique de Commerce.

Institution

Audencia is a non-profit making association supervised by the city of Nantes, the local council and the chamber of commerce and industry. Audencia has the status of a Grandes école and as such is a member of the Conférence des grandes écoles.
The Grandes Écoles of France are higher education establishments that are outside the main framework of the French public university system. The Grandes Écoles can be considered as archaic but are highly selective and prestigious institutions and their graduates often dominate the private and public sectors of French society.

Academic programmes

- Management of Sports Organisations
- Management and International Competences
- Marketing Design & Création
- Global Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
- Finance, Risk, Control
- Marketing Strategies for the Digital Age
- Business Development
Audencia Business School is accredited by EQUIS, AACSB and Association of MBAs.
It is among the top 1% business school in the world to have the triple crown. Of the 13,670 schools offering business degree programs worldwide, only 89 have triple accreditation as of May 2018.

International Partners

The school signed its first agreement with a non-French academic institution in 1972. Today, Audencia has more than 230 international partners. While the earliest accords concerned North American business schools, the school now has partnerships throughout the world.

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