IESEG School of Management


IÉSEG School of Management is a post-bac business school in France, established in 1964 in Lille.
This business school is a member of the Université Catholique de Lille, the largest private university in France in terms of student population and endowment. The school has two campuses, one in Lille and one in Paris. IÉSEG holds the "Triple Crown" of international accreditations: EQUIS, AACSB, and AMBA, and is part of a limited circle of the best business schools worldwide.
IÉSEG School of Management is ranked by the international Financial Times. As a French Grande Ecole and member of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles, IÉSEG is one of the higher education institutions in the country.
The school has a total of 5,150 students on the Lille and Paris campuses.
IÉSEG collaborates with the French National Centre for Scientific Research. The School has 2270 international students; 84% of its permanent faculty is international, 100% hold a PhD and it has a network of more than 281 partner universities in 69 countries.

History

Grande Ecole Program

Unlike many other French Grande écoles of business which have a three-year programme IÉSEG offers a five-year Master in Management program just after completing the Baccalauréat : the Grande École programme. In addition to mainstream courses, students are allowed to specialise in a variety of subjects that range from finance to human resources.
This program is composed of a three-year Bachelor cycle followed by a two-year Master of Science in Management.
Bachelor cycle: During the three-year bachelor cycle, students study different areas of management such as International Business and Marketing and Operations Management. Master cycle the 2-year Master in Management cycle gives students the opportunity to specialize in a particular field: Audit – Control, Economics and International Trade Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Finance, Human Resources Management, Information Systems Management, Operations Management, Marketing, or International Negotiation & Sales Management.
It is possible for newly admitted students to follow all the courses of the five-year programme only in English, allowing foreign students with no French background to be admitted as an IÉSEG student.

Bachelor in International Business

Master of Science - MSc

International MBA

Executive MBA (EMBA)

Spring & Summer Sessions

International Summer Academy
International Fashion Business Summer Program
French Culture Spring Session

Recruitment

The recruitment is carried out through the Access exam. The recruitment is highly selective as in 2016, only 600 students were admitted for 5000 candidates.

International

IÉSEG has 262 partner universities around the world, in which the School's students can spend one or two semesters as an exchange student. In addition, in the School welcomes 2090 international students for the 2016/2017 academic years.

Research

IÉSEG shares a research department with CNRS, a state-owned research body. Primary areas of research include economics, quantitative methods, finance, accounting, management, marketing, and negotiation.
Centers of research expertise
• IÉSEG Center of excellence in Negotiation : ICoN is active in negotiation research, teaching and knowledge transfer. ICoN adopts a transversal approach to negotiation and relationship establishment, spanning over management, employment relations, marketing, international relations and law.
• IÉSEG Center for marketing Analytics : The IÉSEG Center for marketing Analytics is a research group that aims to establish durable research collaborations between academics active in research in the field of marketing analytics, including database marketing, customer intelligence, digital analytics or analytical CRM, and businesses in need of solutions related to one of these topics.
• IÉSEG Center for Organizational Responsibility : ICOR is IÉSEG's Center for Organizational Responsibility. Founded in 2014, it aims to create and disseminate conceptual knowledge and practice-oriented tools in the field of social responsibility, sustainability and business and society relationships for students, researchers, professionals and their organizations.
It is composed of and coordinated by members of IÉSEG academic staff from all departments.

Notable Alumni

Lille campus

The historical campus, located in the heart of the city of Lille, is composed of modern buildings for a total surface of more than 20 000 m2.

Paris campus

In 2008, IÉSEG opened a second campus in the Grande Arche de La Défense. The objective was to attract more students and reinforce relations with companies.
The campus combines lecture halls, 20 classrooms, 3 multimedia rooms, a trading room, a library, a cafeteria and meeting rooms for clubs and associations.
A new 8000m² building is also being constructed at La Défense and will open for the 2017/18 academic year.