KEDGE Business School is a triple accredited (AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA) French business school and grande école. The Grande Ecole was founded in 2013 from the merger of two middle business schools: Bordeaux Ecole de Management (ESC Bordeaux), founded in 1874 in Bordeaux; and EUROMED Management in Marseilles (ESC Marseille), founded in 1872 in Marseille. KEDGE has campuses in France (Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulon, Paris); Senegal (Dakar); Côte d'Ivoire (Abidjan); and China (Shanghai, Suzhou).
History KEDGE business school was recently created in 2013, but it is the result of a merger of two of the earliest business schools in existence: BEM (Bordeaux Management School) in Bordeaux founded in 1874 and EUROMED Management in Marseilles founded in 1872.
1872 - École Supérieure de Commerce de Marseille (ESC Marseille, later EUROMED) founded. (now called: KEDGE Business School, Marseille) 1874 - École Supérieure de Commerce de Bordeaux (ESC Bordeaux, later BEM) founded. (now called: KEDGE Business School, Bordeaux) 1968 - ESC Marseille establishes a new campus in Luminy, France. 1969 - ESC Bordeaux establishes a new campus in Talence, France. 2001 - ESC Bordeaux awarded EQUIS accreditation. 2005 - ESC Marseille awarded EQUIS accreditation. 2007 - ESC Bordeaux and ESC Marseille awarded AMBA accreditation. 2008 - ESC Bordeaux establishes a new campus in Dakar, Senegal. 2009 - ESC Bordeaux awarded AACSB accreditation. 2010 - ESC Marseille establishes a new campus in Suzhou, China, and launches the Institut Franco-Chinese in partnership with Renmin University of China. 2010 - ESC Marseille acquires Toulon Ecole Supérieure de Commerce et Technologie (ESCT) and Ecole Internationale de Design (EID) 2011 - ESC Marseille awarded AACSB accreditation 2012 - ESC Bordeaux (BEM) and ESC Marseille (EUROMED) merge 2013 - KEDGE Business School founded. 2015 - KEDGE establishes a new campus in Paris, France. 2018 and 2019 - New campuses in Paris and Toulon, Marseille campus extension and new spaces on Bordeaux campus 2019 - Ph.D. program launched and KEDGE Design in Marseille opened.
Grande école degrees KEDGE Business School is a grande école, a French institution of higher education that is separate from, but parallel and often connected to, the main framework of the French public university system. Grandes écoles are elite academic institutions that admit students through an extremely competitive process, and a significant proportion of their graduates occupy the highest levels of French society. Similar to Ivy League schools in the United States, Oxbridge in the UK, and C9 League in China, graduation from a grande école is considered the prerequisite credential for any top government, administrative and corporate position in France.Monique de Saint-Martin, « Les recherches sociologiques sur les grandes écoles : de la reproduction à la recherche de justice », Éducation et sociétés 1/2008 (No. 21), . lire en ligne sur Cairn.infoValérie Albouy et Thomas Wanecq, Les inégalités sociales d’accès aux grandes écoles (2003), INSEE
The degrees are accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles and awarded by the Ministry of National Education (France). Higher education business degrees in France are organized into three levels thus facilitating international mobility: the Licence / Bachelor's degrees, and the Master's and Doctorat degrees. The Bachelors and the Masters are organized in semesters: 6 for the Bachelors and 4 for the Masters. Those levels of study include various "parcours" or paths based on UE (Unités d'enseignement or Modules), each worth a defined number of European credits (ECTS). A student accumulates those credits, which are generally transferable between paths. A Bachelors is awarded once 180 ECTS have been obtained (bac + 3); a Masters is awarded once 120 additional credits have been obtained (bac +5). The highly coveted PGE (Grand Ecole Program) ends with the degree of Master's in Management (MiM).Ben-David, Joseph and Philip G. Altbach. eds. Centers of Learning: Britain, France, Germany, United States (2nd ed. 2017).
Partnerships KEDGE partners with 300 universities worldwide, several offering dual-degrees.
Dual Bachelors
University of Ottawa, Canada University of Chile, Chile Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Croatia JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland University of Oulu, Finland American College of Greece, Greece Hochschule Bremen, Germany University of Göttingen, Germany International School of Management, Germany, Germany Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary University of Limerick, Ireland KU Leuven, Belgium Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands University of Groningen, Netherlands Kozminski University, Poland ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia University of Ljubljana, Slovenia SolBridge International School of Business, South Korea University of Deusto, Spain Jönköping University, Sweden Northumbria University, UK University of Hertfordshire, UK Weber State University, USA Hofstra University, USA University of North Florida, USA University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, USA
Dual Masters University of São Paulo, Brazil Brock University, Canada Université Laval, Canada Andrés Bello National University, Chile University of Vaasa, Finland Kozminski University, Poland ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania Umeå School of Business, Sweden National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Nottingham Trent University, UK Aston University, UK Centre Franco-Vietnamien de formation à la Gestion, Vietnam
Programmes Undergraduate programmes (Bachelor and Master) International BBA (Marseille)
Exchange programmes EBP International (Bordeaux) KEDGE Bachelor (Bordeaux, Marseille, Toulon, Avignon, Bastia, Bayonne, Dakar)
Post-graduate programmes Digital Marketing & Sales (Marseille) Arts & Creative Industries Management (Paris) Innovation, Transformation, Entrepreneurship (Marseille) Management Control and Reporting (Marseille) Corporate Finance (Marseille) PhD (Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration) (Bordeaux, Marseille) Banking & Finance (Bordeaux) MVS - Wine & Spirits Management (Bordeaux) Master of Science in Wine & Hospitality Management (Bordeaux, Paris, Lausanne) MAI - International Purchasing & Innovation Management (Bordeaux) Marketing (Marseille, Bordeaux, Paris) ISLI - Global Supply Chain Management (Bordeaux) International Trade & Logistics (Bordeaux) Sustainable Finance (Paris) International Business (Bordeaux, Paris, Marseille) Sport - International sport & event management (Marseille) Master in Management Grande Ecole (Bordeaux, Marseille)
Short-term programmes The KEDGE International Winter School (now digital)
International rankings In 2019, the Financial Times has ranked KEDGE's Master in Management 49th worldwide, and the Executive MBA 39th worldwide & 15th in Europe. In 2020, KEDGE BS was ranked 151st in the QS WUR Ranking for Business & Management. In 2021, KEDGE BS was ranked 41st in the QS World University Rankings for Masters in Management. In 2021, KEDGE BS was ranked 30th in the QS World University Rankings for Masters in Marketing Rankings. In 2022, KEDGE Business School's MSc International Business ranked 10th in the QS International Trade Rankings in partnership with the Hinrich Foundation. In 2026, KEDGE BS was ranked 201-250 in the QS WUR Ranking for Business & Management.
Campus extension In 2018, the expansion project in the Luminy campus (in the Adhesion Zone of the Calanques Natural park) is still controversial, with plans to modify 11,000 square meters of nature. According to critics, around 600 centennial trees will be cut down while the director of school says the old trees will be preserved.
Alumni Daniel Carrasso (1905–2009): son of the founder of Danone, built up the group into a multinational business. Patrick Mennucci (1955–): French politician, former MP of the Bouches-du-Rhône's 4th constituency from June 2012 to June 2017. Xavier Rolet (1959–): ex-CEO of the London Stock Exchange Group. Sophie Cluzel (1961–): French politician, serving as the Secretary of State in charge of People with Disabilities in the Philippe Government since 17 May 2017. Ayodelé Ikuesan (1985–): French sprinter who specialises in the 60 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay. Éric Pichet (1960–): French economist, professor at KEDGE.
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