Ecole de Management Léonard De Vinci


EMLV – the Leonard de Vinci Business School Paris-La Defense – is a business school in Paris located at the Pôle universitaire Léonard-de-Vinci in La Defense, the main business district of Paris. It delivers a 5-year program and is accredited by the French government and recognized at the European level by ENQA. The Pôle Universitaire Léonard De Vinci campus also includes a school of engineering and an international school of multimedia.

Program

The program of study is progressive, with an initial emphasis on the fundamentals of management relating to HR, Accounting and Statistics. After a common base of two years, the students are given a choice towards more specific bodies of knowledge with different course packages: marketing-commerce or finance-management. Courses in the third year are delivered exclusively in English. Further specialization occurs in the 4th year, and industry-specific courses are delivered in the 5th year ensuring students are ready for real world situation as soon as they graduate.

Leadership

Pascal Brouaye is the director of the University. The director of the Management School is Sebastien Tran.
The founder is Charles Pasqua, who organized the University in 1995.

International orientation and partner universities

The EMLV program places an emphasis on student exposure to real case studies with businesses by providing consulting services to the school's business partners. With more than 50 international partners welcoming its students in exchange programs, students are also encouraged to study abroad to enhance their cross-cultural understanding and linguistic skills.

Selected partner universities

The graduates of EMLV work in all the major sectors, including:
Professor John Dowling was stabbed after class 13 times by a former management student for "insulting Islam". The suspect had enrolled in the Management School in 2016. Frédérique Vidal, France's Minister of Higher Education, declared "indignation" because of the killing.