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Montpellier Business School

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Montpellier Business School
École Supérieure de Commerce de Montpellier
MottoExcellence & commitment
TypeGrande école de commerce et de management
(Private research university Business school)
Established1897; 128 years ago (1897)
AccreditationTriple accreditation:
AACSB;[1]
AMBA;[2]
EQUIS[3]
AffiliationConférence des grandes écoles;[1]
Union of Independent Grandes Écoles[1]
PresidentAndré Deljarry
DeanBruno Ducasse[4]
Academic staff
+100 teacher-researchers;[1]
96% PhD.;[5]
45% female;[5]
67% international[5]
Students3,600; 60% international students[1]
Location
Montpellier
,
France[1]
LanguageEnglish-only & French-only instruction
NicknameMBS
Websitewww.montpellier-bs.com
Montpellier Business School is located in France
Montpellier Business School
Montpellier Business School
Montpellier Business School (France)

Montpellier Business School is a French business school (grande école) located in Montpellier.[6] Founded in 1897 by the Montpellier Chamber of Commerce and Industry, this Grande école is one of the oldest of the French Écoles Supérieures de Commerce.

Montpellier Business School offers several programmes: Bachelor, Master (programme Grande Ecole), 15 Masters of Science, and Executive MBA. The business school has the triple accreditation EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA.[7]

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Since 2013 Montpellier Business School has been constituted as an association under the law of 1901, which guarantees its non-profit status.[8] Cementing this in 2017 Montpellier Business School was designated a Private Higher Education Institution of General Interest (EESPIG).[9] by the French State, this further ensures that all its resources are exclusively assigned to the public service mission of higher education.

History [10]

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The ESC Montpellier was created in 1897 by the Chamber of Commerce of Montpellier (CCI Montpellier).

  • 1915, MBS became the first business school to admit women into its classes.
  • 1993, the school became a member of the Conférence des Grandes écoles
  • 1994, heralded the launch of the Executive MBA
  • 2000 saw the creation of the Bachelor of Business Administration.
  • 2007 the MBS Foundation for Equal Opportunities, under the aegis of the Fondation de France was created, and the school's commitment to equality and diversity was affirmed when in
  • 2009 Montpellier Business School became the first higher education institution to be accredited with the Diversity Label awarded by AFNOR
  • 2010, the school obtained the EFMD – EPAS accreditation of the Master's degree.
  • 2011, the school received its AACSB accreditation, and at the same time, launches the BADGE® Executive Education programmes, accredited by the CGE.
  • 2012, the Executive MBA programme was accredited AMBA.
  • 2013, Montpellier Business School opened a new campus in Dakar.

Rankings

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In 2024 MSBS was ranked 69th in Europe overall by the Financial Times, with its flagship MiM program being placed at 40th.[6]

In 2025 Le Figaro placed the MiM at 13th and the Bachelor Of International Business Administration 10th in its "Classement des écoles de commerce" 2025 (Ranking of schools of business) [8]

Grande école degrees

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MBS 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.[11][12][13] 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.[14][15]

The degrees are accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles[16] and awarded by the Ministry of National Education (France).[17] 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.[18][19] 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)[18][19][20]

Research

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The research activities cover all traditional areas of management research. Research activities are based on the work of permanent teacher-researchers. Several Montpellier Business School's teacher-researchers are also part of the LabEx Entreprendre.[21]

The researchers play a role in editorial activities and in the organisation of annual conferences such as the Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research (IECER) and the International Finance Conference (IFC). In November 2017, Montpellier Business School has also organised its first International Conference on Energy, Finance and the Macroeconomics Conférence Internationale sur l’Energie, la Finance et la Macroéconomie (ICEFM).

Programmes [8]

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Montpellier Business School, member of the Conférence des Grandes écoles, develops courses from Bachelor's degrees, Master's degrees to an Executive MBA and a Digital Doctor of Business Administration [22]

Every year, Montpellier Business School also offers a Spring & Summer School.

Partnerships

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MBS has over 180 partner universities worldwide.[23]

Notable alumni

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "What is Montpellier Business School". MBS. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Accredited Schools - Association of MBAs". AMBA. Association of MBAs. Archived from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  3. ^ "EQUIS Accredited Schools". EFMD. European Fund for Management Development. 20 September 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Message from the MBS Dean". MBS. 13 September 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  5. ^ a b c "MBS (Montpellier Business School)". Financial Times. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  6. ^ a b "MBS (Montpellier Business School) - Business school rankings from the Financial Times - FT.com". rankings.ft.com.
  7. ^ "MBS rejoint le cercle des 1 % de business schools mondiales trois fois « couronnées »". La Tribune (in French). 2019-10-03. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
  8. ^ a b c Etudiant, Figaro Etudiant Figaro (January 30, 2023). "Montpellier BS". etudiant.lefigaro.fr.
  9. ^ Zaarour, Akila (September 29, 2017). "Montpellier Business School devient le 1er établissement d'enseignement supérieur à obtenir le label égalité professionnelle entre les femmes et les hommes".
  10. ^ "The History of MBS School Of Business". MBS School of business. September 13, 2021.
  11. ^ "France's educational elite". Daily Telegraph. 17 November 2003. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  12. ^ Pierre Bourdieu (1998). The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power. Stanford UP. pp. 133–35. ISBN 9780804733465.
  13. ^ Ball, MBA Crystal (April 19, 2019). "Top Grandes Écoles in France: Ranking, costs, job placements and more".
  14. ^ 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), p. 95-103. lire en ligne sur Cairn.info
  15. ^ Valérie Albouy et Thomas Wanecq, Les inégalités sociales d’accès aux grandes écoles (2003), INSEE
  16. ^ "Conférence des grandes écoles: commission Accréditation". Conférence des grandes écoles. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  17. ^ "Etablissements dispensant des formations supérieures initiales diplômantes conférant le grade de master". Ministry of France, Higher Education. Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'Innovation. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  18. ^ a b "La Licence". enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr (in French). 2016-07-19. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
  19. ^ a b "Le Master". enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr (in French). 2016-07-19. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
  20. ^ Ben-David, Joseph and Philip G. Altbach. eds. Centers of Learning: Britain, France, Germany, United States (2nd ed. 2017).
  21. ^ "LABEX Entreprendre".
  22. ^ "Digital Doctorate in Business Administration". MBS School of business. September 16, 2021.
  23. ^ "The foreign partner universities of MBS". MBS. 15 September 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  24. ^ "L'ex-ministre français Eric Besson va conduire l'ancrage de SICPA en Afrique de l'Ouest". La Tribune. February 4, 2019.
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