Rouen Business School
The Rouen Business School was a leading French business school.
It was founded in 1871 and on 24 April 2013, Rouen Business School and Reims Management School announced the merger of the two Schools into a single entity - NEOMA Business School.
Rouen Business School's quality is recognised by its "triple-crown" accreditations and its Financial Times' ranking 13th position best European Master in Management. The Financial Times also highlights the particular quality of the education it provides in finance, ranking the "Grande Ecole" program 8th best in Europe and 4th best in France.
History
Established in 1871 in the then-vibrant industrial city of Rouen, it is the second business school to be created in France.Groupe ESC Rouen was formed in 1996, gathering together four independent schools, all managed and financed mainly by the Rouen Chamber of Commerce and Industry. These schools are ESC Rouen, the leading school of the group, IFI, ISPP and ECAL - each school having a distinctive mission and student base.
ESC Rouen is a founding member of the Chapitre des Ecoles du Management de la Conférence des Grandes Ecoles. The school is also a member of EFMD and AACSB.
ESC Rouen received EQUIS accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development for a second time in May 2005. Later, the school has received AACSB and AMBA accreditations.
Ranking
Financial Times - The ESC Rouen Grande Ecole Programme is ranked 13th position best European Master in Management. The Financial Times also highlights the quality of the formation in finance ranking the ESC Rouen Grande Ecole Programme 8th best school in Europe and 4th best school in France.ESC Rouen is also consistently ranked among the top-10 French business schools.
Le Nouvel Economist - 7th position
L'Expansion - 6th position relating to best starting salary and three years after graduating
Challenges - 6th position
Capital - 5th position for starting salaries for business school graduates
Campus
62 full-time professors1340 student and 2600 in the ESC Rouen Groupe
Budget: 28 million euros
Training offered
Graduate programmeThe Grande Ecole Programme is organised in two sections, and is perfectly adapted to international mobility. Its mission is to receive a growing number of foreign students. The Masters section, covering four semesters, includes one semester of internship and a study period in one of our partner universities. It ends up with a ‘major’, which is a genuine interface with the international job market. The ‘European tracks’ which are one semester longer, allow students to study in three or four different European Union countries. They widen the horizons and the employment prospects in those domains in which the ESC Rouen specialises, particularly in its two areas of excellence : finance and international marketing.
Management teaching programme over seven semesters, with a strong international dimension and adapted to the demands of each student.
Recruitment after preparatory classes and as parallel admission after a course up to Bac+2 or Bac+3/4.
The Grande Ecole programme complies with the requirements of the Bologna Process.
Undergraduate programmes
IFI offers a 4-year programme specialising in international business. This leads to a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, with a specialisation in either International Marketing or International Management. IFI has the highest accreditation of the Ministry of Education, which is called the "visa".ISPP offers a 3-year Bachelor of Arts programme in Management. ISPP has the highest accreditation of the Ministry of Education.
ECAL offers a 2-year programme in Retailing Management, with students being accepted after having already completed two years of post-secondary education.
Postgraduate programmes
Specialised Masters:The Rouen School of Management offers specialised masters courses accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles, as well as an MBA. Teaching is either full-time in Rouen or part-time in Paris.
By setting up a centre in Paris, the Rouen School of Management is confirming its determination to develop its range of part-time postgraduate programmes.
Specialised Masters Part Time in Paris :
- Market Research and Marketing Management
- Marketing of Products for Children and Young Consumers
- Corporate Communication Strategy
- Market Research and Marketing Management
- International Financial Management
- Management Strategy for International Development
- Master of Science in European Management
- Master of Science in Business Information Systems
- Master of Science in Financial Markets
- MSc in European Management : a one-year programme conducted in English and open to students who have 4-year bachelor's degrees.
- Rouen Normandy MBA : a 12 – 16-month programme taught in English.
ESC Rouen - Grande Ecole Programme
Auditing
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Markets
- Managerial Accounting
- Finance and International Management
- Financial and Banking Management
- Marketing of Services, Retailing and Leisure Activities
- Entrepreneurialism
- Human Resources Management
- Performance Management
- Management of Non-Profit Organisations
- International Marketing
- Marketing of Products and Communication
Admission
- First year : CPGE : 260 accepted
- First year: University Diploma : 35 places
- Second year: University Diploma : 65 places
Internships
Place: France or overseas
Semester 5 or 6 : 6 to 8 months internship
Subject: Professional insertion
Place: France or overseas
Semester 8 : 6 month intership
Subject: Professional integration
Place: France or overseas
Semester 5 and 6 :
Possibility of a gap year in a company for 9 to 12 months
International partners
The agreements between Groupe ESC Rouen and its 171 partner universities offer students the possibility of studying in universities and business schools.These agreements allow our students to spend one or two semesters in one of these universities. The grades obtained are credited towards their degree. Each year, 100% of the IFI students and about 90% of ESC Rouen students study abroad.
In exchange, Rouen welcomes nearly 370 students from its partner universities onto its different programmes and generally stay between 3 and 9 months. These students also have the possibility of continuing their graduate studies in order to complete the full ESC-Programme and obtain the Diplôme de Grande Ecole.
Groupe ESC Rouen also offers European Management Seminars which are customized intensive management seminars on "Doing Business in the European Union". These seminars are organised at the Undergraduate, Graduate and Post-Graduate level.
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- National University of the South
- Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina
- Universidad Argentina de la Empresa
- Griffith University
- La Trobe University
- Swinburne University of Technology
- IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems
- University of Innsbruck
- Johannes Kepler University Linz
- Katholieke Hogeschool Zuid-West-Vlaanderen
- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná
- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Instituto de Pos-Graduaçao e Pesquisa em Administraçao
- Fundação Getúlio Vargas
- University of São Paulo
- Brock University, Faculty of Business
- Wilfrid Laurier University, School of Business & Economics
- Nipissing University, School of Business & Economics
- University of Windsor, the Odette School of Business
- Dalhousie University, Faculty of Management
- University of Manitoba, I.H. Asper School of Business
- University of Saskatchewan, Edwards School of Business
- Saint Mary's University, The F. Sobey Faculty of Commerce
- University of Northern British Columbia, School of Business
- University of Western Ontario, Richard Ivey School of Business
- Concordia University, John Molson School of Business
- Université Laval, Faculté des Sciences de l'Administration
- McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management
- DeGroote School of Business
- University of Ottawa, School of Management
- Queen's University, School of Business
- Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté d'Administration
- University of Québec, Ecole des Sciences de la Gestion
- University of Victoria, Faculty of Business
- York University, Faculty of Administrative Studies
- University of Calgary, Haskayne School of Business
- Adolfo Ibáñez University
- Andrés Bello University
- Catholic University of the North
- University of the Andes, Chile
- University of Chile
- Diego Portales University
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Zhejiang University
- University of Macau
- Wuhan University
- Ningbo University of Technology
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Shanghai University
- Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración
- Universidad Externado de Colombia
- University of the Andes, Colombia
- Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus
- Business Academy Copenhagen North
- Copenhagen Business School
- International University Audentes, Tallinn
- Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences
- JAMK University of Applied Sciences
- Aalto University School of Business
- Turku School of Economics
- Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft
- Hochschule Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences
- Fachhochschule Reutlingen
- VWA - Studienakademie Stuttgart
- Hochschule Für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden
- European Business School International University Schloss Reichartshausen
- Leibniz University Hannover
- WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management
- University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- University of Regensburg
- Saarland University
- Corvinus University of Budapest
- University of Miskolc
- Birla Institute of Management Technology
- Bishop Heber College
- Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
- University of Dublin, Trinity College
- Tel Aviv University
- University of Molise
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
- University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
- Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli
- University of Genoa
- Akita International University
- Rikkyo University - College of Business
- Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
- Sophia University
- Ecole Supérieure des Affaires
- Universiti Sains Malaysia
- University of Malaya
- Institut Supérieur de Commerce et d'Administration des Entreprises
- Universidad de Monterrey
- Universidad Regiomontana
- Tamaulipas Institute of Higher Education
- Universidad Iberoamericana
- Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
- Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
- Norwegian School of Economics
- University of the Pacific
- ESAN University
- University of Gdańsk
- Kozminski University
- Gdańsk University of Technology
- University of Warsaw
- Catholic University of Portugal
- Moscow International Higher Business School
- Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, Faculty of Economics and Management
- Plekhanov Russian Economic University
- The State University of Management
- Institut Supérieur de Management
- Singapore Management University
- Seoul National University
- University of Almería
- University of León
- Universidad Pública de Navarra
- Rovira i Virgili University
- University of Deusto
- Charles III University of Madrid
- National University of Córdoba
- Escuela Superior de Gestion Comercial y Marketing
- Comillas Pontifical University - ICADE
- University of Salamanca
- University of Valencia
- Halmstad University
- Karlstad University
- University of Gothenburg
- Lund University
- Stockholm University School of Business
- Assumption University
- Chulalongkorn University
- Arnhem Business School
- Inholland University of Applied Sciences, Rotterdam
- Maastricht University
- Tilburg University
- Boğaziçi University
- Bilkent University, Ankara
- Middle East Technical University, Ankara
- University of Hull Business School
- Glasgow Caledonian University
- University of Sunderland
- University of Westminster
- Aston University Business School
- University of Bath
- Kingston University
- University of Nottingham Business School
- University of Warwick
- American University, Kogod School of Business in Washington, DC
- Fairfield University, the Charles F. Dolan School of Business
- Michigan State University, the Eli Broad College of Business
- Hamline University, Graduate School of Management, St Paul, Minnesota
- Bentley University
- California Polytechnic State University, Orfalea College of Business
- Indiana University, Kelley School of Business
- Minnesota State University, Mankato, College of Business
- University of Pittsburgh, College of Business Administration
- University of Richmond, Robins School of Business
- Towson University, College of Business & Economics
- Monterey Institute of International Studies, the Fisher Graduate School of Int. Business
- Brandeis International Business School
- Emory University, Goizueta Business School
- University of Florida, the Warrington College of Business Administration
- Montclair State University, School of Business
- Pennsylvania State University, Smeal College of Business
- Pepperdine University, The Graziado School of Business and Management
- Cox School of Business
- University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, College of Business & Economics
- AACSB
- EFMD
- AUF
- RAMEGE
- Main sector of activity of graduates :
- *- Consultancy and auditing : 29%
- *- Finance, banks, insurance : 18%
- *- Chemicals and pharmaceutical industry : 8%
- Main strength promoted by the school:
- *International partners and its new European programme: **Business simulation games
- *Alumni network
- *Partnerships with companies
- *The campus
Notable faculty
- Louis Le Duff, billionaire businessman