Excelia Group


Excelia Group is a French university-level institution of higher education. Created in 1988 as Groupe Sup de Co La Rochelle, it is a non-profit organisation linked to the La Rochelle Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a member of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles.
The Group's La Rochelle Business School holds the triple crown accreditation since 2020.
The main campus of Excelia Group is in La Rochelle. Further campuses are located in Tours and Niort, to which add associate campuses in New York and Beijing as well as overseas offices in locations such as Casablanca, Dakar, or Moscow. Excelia has partnerships or arrangements with more than 170 universities.

History

Founded in 1988, the then Groupe Sup de Co La Rochelle has been a permanent member of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles since 2005.
On 1 September 2016, and still under its former name, Excelia Group acquired a majority share of ESCEM, a business school located in Tours, Poitiers, and Orléans.

Schools

Excelia Group is organised into five schools:
Excelia Group is accredited by The French Ministry of Education.
La Rochelle Business School is EFMD-EPAS accredited since 2011 and AACSB accredited since 2013.
La Rochelle Tourism and Hospitality School holds the TedQual accreditation, delivered by the World Tourism Organisation, for all its programs in Tourism Management. The school is the first and only French institution of higher education to obtain TedQual accreditation for both Bachelor and MBA programs.

Rankings

Excelia Group La Rochelle Business School entered the Financial Times ranking of European Business Schools at rank 76 in 2014 and climbed to rank 71 in 2015. In the FT 2019 rankings, LRBS ranks 66th for its Master in Management and 79th overall.
In the Le Point ranking 2020, La Rochelle Business School's ranked 17th out of 37 business schools eligible for ranking. In the Challenges ranking 2020, the school ranked 15th within a similar population.

Programs

La Rochelle Business School

Master Program (Programme Grande Ecole)

MBA Tourism and Services

The student alumni network consists of more than 12,000 professionals currently working in more than 70 countries.