Excelia

ex. Sup de Co La Rochelle
Type	Private university
Established	1988 (1988)
Budget	30 million Euros
Chairman	Stephane Cohat
Dean	Bruno Neil
Academic staff	500
Students	5000
Location	La Rochelle, Tours, Orléans , France
Affiliations	AACSB (accredited); AMBA (accredited) ; EQUIS (accredited) ; Conférence des Grandes Écoles
Website	www.excelia-group.fr

Excelia is a French private university-level institution of higher education. Created in 1988 as Groupe Sup de Co La Rochelle, it is a non-profit organisation linked to the La Rochelle Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) and a member of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles.^[1] Excelia Group's Business School belongs to the approximately 100 business schools worldwide (corresponding to roughly 1% of all business school) holding a triple accreditation.^[2]

History

Founded in 1988, the then Groupe Sup de Co La Rochelle has been a permanent member of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles since 2005.

In September 2016, Excelia acquired a majority share of the ESCEM Business School in Tours and Orléans^[3] which was then fully integrated into Excelia.^[4]

Excelia has now 5,000 students and nearly 40,000 Alumni.^[5]

Schools

Excelia is organised into five schools:^[6]

• Excelia Business School
• Excelia Tourism School
• Excelia Digital School
• Excelia Academy
• Excelia Executive Education

The historical campus of Excelia Group is located in La Rochelle and 2 additional campuses are in Tours and Orléans.

Excelia programs are also offered in Niort, Rochefort, Angoulême and Cognac.

2 overseas associate campuses are located in New Rochelle, NY and Beijing.^[7][8]

Accreditation

Excelia is accredited by The French Ministry of Education (French: Le Ministère de L'éducation Nationale).

Excelia Business School is EFMD-EPAS accredited since 2011^[9] and AACSB accredited since 2013.^[10] As of summer 2020, Excelia Business School is bearer of the triple crown,^[11] thus joining the league of roughly 100 triple-accredited business schools worldwide.

Excelia Tourism School holds the TedQual accreditation, delivered by the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), for all its programs in Tourism Management. The school is the first and only French institution of higher education to obtain TedQual accreditation for both Bachelor and MBA programs.

Rankings

In 2022, the Financial Times ranked its Masters in Management program 36th in the world.^[12] Excelia Business School (former La Rochelle Business School) entered the Financial Times ranking of European Business Schools at ranks between 76 (2014) and 63 (2020).^[13][14]

Programs

Excelia Business School

DBA programme in Tourism & Hospitality Management

• DBA in Tourism and Hospitality Management: 4-year programme for experienced managers in the hospitality and tourism sectors, intended for managers with an MBA (or equivalent qualification) and extensive professional experience.

Master Program (Programme Grande Ecole)

• ESC Master in Management, the Programme Grande Ecole, is leading to a Master in Management. Each student spends 6 to 12 intensive months in another university of the world.

Bachelor programs

• Bachelor in International Business: 4-year program after French Baccalaureate or International Baccalaureate, including 2 years of studies abroad with possibility of double degrees (English and French tracks are available).
• Bachelor Business : 3-year general business program after French Baccalaureate or International Baccalaureate, giving access to a various list of positions in French or foreign companies (taught in French, no English track).
• Bachelor in Management of Tourism : 3-year specialised program in tourism after French Baccalaureate or International Baccalaureate, very popular for many major tourism companies (English and French tracks are available).
• The School also offers since 1999 two ranges of MBA Programs :

Specialized MBAs

• Environment and Sustainable Development Strategy
• Internationalisation and Audit/Consulting
• Bank and Customer Relationship Management
• Premium and Luxury Products Marketing
• International Corporate Strategy
• Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
• Event Management Organisation
• Applied Industrial Management

Excelia Tourism School

MBA Tourism and Services

• Touristic Destination Management
• Hospitality Management
• Sport Management

Excelia Digital School

• BA in Web Design and Graphic Communication
• MSc in Digital Communications and Influence Strategy

Partner universities (selection)

Excelia has partnerships or dual-degree programs with more than 200 universities.

• Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria
• Northern Arizona University, USA
• University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic
• University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
• University of Bamberg, Germany
• Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
• National University of Ireland, Ireland
• University of Limerick, Ireland
• LUISS Business School, Italy
• Oxford Brookes University, UK
• Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
• Warsaw School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Poland
• Lomonosov State University Moscow, Russia
• University of Granada, Spain
• Linnaeus University, Sweden
• Plymouth University, UK
• Beihang University, China (partner campus)
• Newcastle University, UK

Alumni network

The student alumni network consists of more than 40,000 professionals currently working in more than 150 countries.