Press Release 2024

ESSCA School of Management is updating its Bachelor in International Management programme by incorporating an unprecedented “three years, three countries” track, a reinforced entrepreneurship specialisation and new initiatives focusing on Sustainable Development and Societal Responsibility.

In so doing, the School is positioning itself as a major figure in the training of young people to tackle the challenges of tomorrow.

Christophe FELIDJ is the new Paris campus director. His managerial experience of institutions of higher education and his commitment to student success will prove major assets for ESSCA’s Parisian campus.

For the beginning of the 2024-25 academic year, ESSCA decided to offer its first-year students an innovative kickstart to forge new links and establish a collective spirit whilst acting in the interests of tomorrow’s world.

The Ministry for Higher Education and Research has renewed the official Masters status of the ESSCA Grande Ecole programme for the maximum period of five years.

ESSCA is continuing its drive to blend skillsets via the signing of a top-level partnership with the École des Ponts ParisTech, one of the world’s major institutions of Engineering Science, under the tutelage of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Regional Cohesion.

AI and Sustainable Development: publication of the inaugural ESSCA AI for Sustainability Institute barometer with Forvis Mazars.

ESSCA is implementing ESSCABOT, a personal assistant chatbot designed especially for students, making the best possible use of the latest advances in AI and Microsoft Azure technologies.

The project is emblematic of the school’s commitment to innovation, representing an unprecedented improvement of the student experience via technology

From PrépaVogt to ESSCA: a 10-year partnership in support of academic achievement and multicultural exposure

Since 2013, the partnership has enabled over 380 students from Central Africa to take the first two years of ESSCA’s Grande Ecole Master in Management
programme from Yaoundé via PrépaVogt, a Private Institute for Higher Education specialised in fully integrated preparatory classes. Third year and
Masters-level students are able to follow the curriculum on one of ESSCA’s ten campuses.

The two partner institutions aspire to extending their collaboration and strengthening the employability prospects of their graduates, both in France and abroad.

ESSCA School of Management has appointed three new directors:

• Zahia BOUAZIZ as Director of the Bachelor in International Management
• Claire BOURGEOIS as Director of the Aix-en-Provence campus
• Karen PEYRONNIN as Director of the Strasbourg campus

With these three new recruitments, ESSCA is pursuing its ambition to offer among the very best working, research, and learning conditions in European higher education across its 10 campuses in France and abroad.

ESSCA School of Management confirms its academic excellence with the renewal of its AACSB accreditation for the maximum period of 5 years. This reaccreditation, which was issued by the AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), serves as proof of the school’s continued
commitment to the quality of its programmes across all campuses.

In so doing, ESSCA has maintained the three most prestigious international labels: AACSB, AMBA (Association of MBAs) and EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System). This triple-crown accreditation places ESSCA among the top 1% of schools of management in the world.

ESSCA School of Management has obtained the DDRS (Sustainable Development and Societal Responsibility) label, confirming the commitments it has made to and the actions undertaken in favour of sustainable development and societal responsibility for the past 10 years.

The committee in charge of awarding the label reserved particular praise for the dynamic and cross-disciplinary nature of the steps taken by ESSCA on these issues.

This label serves as recognition for ESSCA’s continued efforts across all activities, especially at teaching programme, research practice, governance,
environmental policy, and social policy levels. The awarding from the very outset of the process of the maximum four-year label also underlines how far
advanced ESSCA is in its sustainable development and societal responsibility culture and practices within the school.

ESSCA is implementing a new MSc programme offer, with Pr. Yann TRUONG appointed to the position of Director.

His mission will above all entail steering the launch of five new Masters of Science within ESSCA in order to train future leaders in key areas of the global economy: the MSc in Wealth Management & Private Banking, the MSc in Finance & Data Analytics, the MSc in Management of Artificial Intelligence, the MSc in Sustainable Management & Social Impact and the MSc in International Luxury Management.