KEDGE Business School Marseille
Former name
EUROMED (est.1872) and BEM (est.1874) merger
TypeGrande école de commerce et de management
(Private research university Business school)
Established2013; 11 years ago (2013)
AccreditationTriple accreditation:
AACSB;[1]
AMBA;[1]
EQUIS[1]
Academic affiliations
Conférence des grandes écoles,[1]
DirectorAlexandre de Navailles
Academic staff
172
97% PhD.;[2]
33% female;[2]
46% international[2]
Students14,800[1]
Location
France: Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulon, Paris;
China: Suzhou, Shanghai;
Senegal: Dakar;
Côte d'Ivoire: Abidjan
Campus8
LanguageEnglish-only & French-only instruction
Websitekedge.edu

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.[3] KEDGE has campuses in France (Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulon, Paris); Senegal (Dakar); Côte d'Ivoire (Abidjan); and China (Shanghai, Suzhou).[1]

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.[3]

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.[4][5][6] 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.[7][8]

The degrees are accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles[9] and awarded by the Ministry of National Education (France).[10] 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.[11][12] 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)[11][12][13]

Partnerships

KEDGE partners with 300 universities worldwide, several offering dual-degrees.[14]

Dual Bachelors[14]

Dual Masters[14]

Programmes

Undergraduate programmes (Bachelor and Master)

Exchange programmes

Post-graduate programmes

Short-term programmes

International rankings

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.[20]

Alumni

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "KEDGE Business School". KEDGE. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "KEDGE Business School". Financial Times. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  3. ^ a b "KEDGE History". KEDGE. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  4. ^ "France's educational elite". Daily Telegraph. 17 November 2003. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  5. ^ Pierre Bourdieu (1998). The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power. Stanford UP. pp. 133–35. ISBN 9780804733465.
  6. ^ What are Grandes Ecoles Institutes in France?
  7. ^ 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
  8. ^ Valérie Albouy et Thomas Wanecq, Les inégalités sociales d’accès aux grandes écoles (2003), INSEE
  9. ^ "Conférence des grandes écoles: commission Accréditation". Conférence des grandes écoles. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  10. ^ "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.
  11. ^ a b "La Licence". enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr (in French). 2016-07-19. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
  12. ^ a b "Le Master". enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr (in French). 2016-07-19. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
  13. ^ Ben-David, Joseph and Philip G. Altbach. eds. Centers of Learning: Britain, France, Germany, United States (2nd ed. 2017).
  14. ^ a b c "Partner universities". KEDGE. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  15. ^ "Masters in Management 2019". Financial Times. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  16. ^ "European Business School Rankings 2019". Financial Times. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  17. ^ "QS WUR Ranking: Business & Management 2020". Top Universities. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  18. ^ "QS World University Rankings: Masters in Management Rankings 2021". Top Universities. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  19. ^ "QS World University Rankings: Masters in Marketing Rankings 2021". Top Universities. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  20. ^ Stromboni, Marine (2018-02-16). "Marseille : à Luminy, Kedge dévoile un nouveau projet controversé". La Provence (in French). Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  21. ^ "Patrick Mennucci". AgoraNews Sécurité (in French). Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  22. ^ "Qui est Xavier Rolet ?". Vu d'ailleurs (in French). 2017-12-11. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  23. ^ "Sophie Cluzel". Les Echos (in French). 2018-11-19. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  24. ^ "Ayodélé Ikuesan - Une vie à côté du sport". Sans Filtre (in French). 2018-03-28. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  25. ^ "Éric Pichet". The Conversation. 28 November 2017. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  26. ^ Alumni, KEDGE. "Georges Klenkle, KEDGE Alumni Association's new President". www.kedgebs-alumni.com. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
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