ESC Rouen's quality is recognized at European level through its EQUIS accreditation and its Financial Times' ranking 13th position best European Master in Management. The Financial Times also highlights the quality of the formation in finance ranking the Grande Ecole Programme 8th position best in Europe and 4th position best in France.

History

Established in 1871 in the then-vibrant industrial city of Rouen, it is the second business school to be created in France.

Groupe ESC Rouen was formed in 1996, gathering together 4 independent schools, all managed and financed mainly by the Rouen Chamber of Commerce and Industry. These schools are ESC Rouen, the leading school of the group, IFI, ISPP and ECAL _ each school having a distinctive mission and student base.

ESC Rouen is a founding member of the Chapitre des Ecoles du Management de la Conférence des Grandes Ecoles (Chapter of Management Schools belonging to the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles). The school is also a member of EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) and AACSB (International Association for Management Education).

ESC Rouen received EQUIS accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development for a second time in May 2005. Moreover, the school is engaged in the process to obtain the AACSB and AMBA accreditations.

Ranking

Financial Times (2007) - The ESC Rouen Grande Ecole Programme is ranked 13th position best European Master in Management. The Financial Times also highlights the quality of the formation in finance ranking the ESC Rouen Grande Ecole Programme 8th position best in Europe and 4th position best in France.

ESC Rouen is also consistently ranked among the top-7 French Business Schools.

Le Nouvel Economist (2007) - 7th position
L'Expansion (2006) - 6th position relating to best starting salary and three years after graduating
Challenges (December 2005) - 6th position
Capital (2004) - 5th position for starting salaries for Business School graduates

Campus

1 rue du Maréchal Juin - BP 215
76825 Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex
Téléphone : 02.32.82.57.00 - Télécopie : 02.32.82.57.01

62 full time professors (170 overall)
1340 student and 2600 in the ESC Rouen Groupe
Budget: 27 million euros

Students have been known to ride the "Biture Express" and have been known to dance on occasion "La Danse de Limousin".

Training offered

Graduate programme (Flag Diploma)

The Grande Ecole Programme is organised in two sections (Bachelor et Master), and is perfectly adapted to international mobility. Its mission is to receive a growing number of foreign students. The Masters section, covering four semesters, includes one semester of internship and a study period in one of our partner universities. It ends up with a ‘major’, which is a genuine interface with the international job market. The ‘European tracks’ which are one semester longer, allow students to study in three or four different European Union countries. They widen the horizons and the employment prospects in those domains in which the ESC Rouen specialises, particularly in its two areas of excellence : finance and international marketing.

Management teaching programme over 7 semesters, with a strong international dimension and adapted to the demands of each student. Recruitment after preparatory classes (ECRICOME entrance exam and UNIVERSA for international students) and as parallel admission after a course up to Bac+2 or Bac+3/4 (Tremplin 1 and Tremplin2). The Grande Ecole programme complies with the requirements of the Bologna Process.

Undergraduate programmes

IFI (created in 1986) offers a 4-year programme specialising in international business. This leads to a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, with a specialisation in either International Marketing or International Management. IFI has the highest accreditation of the Ministry of Education, which is called the “visa”.

Site Web : www.ifi-rouen.fr

ISPP (created in 1977) offers a 3-year Bachelor of Arts programme in Management (with specialisations in Sales Management, Tourism, Logistics and Retailing). ISPP has the highest accreditation of the Ministry of Education (“visa”).

Site Web : www.ispp-rouen.fr

ECAL (created in 1962) offers a 2-year programme in Retailing Management, with students being accepted after having already completed 2 post-secondary years of education.

Site Web : www.ecal-rouen.fr

Postgraduate programmes

Specialised Masters: The Rouen School of Management offers specialised masters courses accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles, as well as an MBA. Teaching is either full-time in Rouen or part-time in Paris. By setting up a centre in Paris, the Rouen School of Management is confirming its determination to develop its range of part-time postgraduate programmes.

Specialised Masters Part Time in Paris (MBA Center - 23 rue d'Anjou - 75008 Paris):

• Market Research and Marketing Management
• Marketing of Products for Children and Young Consumers
• Corporate Communication Strategy

Specialised Masters Full Time in Rouen:

• Market Research and Marketing Management
• International Financial Management
• Management Strategy for International Development
• Master of Science in European Management
• Master of Science in Business Information Systems

MBA - Master in Business Administration

• MSc in European Management : a one year programme conducted in English and open to students who have 4-year Bachelors degrees.
  

• Rouen Normandy MBA : a 12 – 16 month programme taught in English.

Mél. : mba@groupe-esc-rouen.fr

ESC Rouen - Grande Ecole Programme

13 specialised majors in the 3rd year (Grande Ecole Programme). The 13 majors are designed jointly with European partner universities and are taught by international teams. They are offered to students in the 3rd year so as to strengthen their theoretical knowledge in the main management disciplines :

Auditing
Corporate Finance
Financial Markets
Managerial Accounting
Finance and International Management
Financial and Banking Management
Marketing of Services, Retailing and Leisure Activities
Entrepreneurialism
Human Resources Management
Performance Management
Management of Non-Profit Organisations
International Marketing
Marketing of Products and Communication

Admission
First year : CPGE (preparatory school): 260 accepted
First year: University Diploma (Bac + 2): 35 places
Second year: University Diploma (Bac + 3 to Bac + 4): 65 places


Internships
Semester 3 : 6 months compulsory internship
Place: France or overseas

Semester 5 or 6 : 6 to 8 months internship
Subject: Professional insertion
Place: France or overseas

Semester 8 : 6 month intership
Subject: Professional integration
Place: France or overseas

Semester 5 and 6 : Possibility of a gap year in a company for 9 to 12 months

International Partners
The agreements between Groupe ESC Rouen and its 171 partner universities offer students the possibility of studying in universities and business schools

These agreements allow our students to spend one or two semesters in one of these universities. The grades obtained are credited towards their degree. Each year, 100 % of the IFI students and about 90 % of ESC Rouen students study abroad.

In exchange, Rouen welcomes nearly 370 students from its partner universities onto its different programmes and generally stay between 3 and 9 months. These students also have the possibility of continuing their graduate studies in order to complete the full ESC-Programme and obtain the Diplôme de Grande Ecole (Master of Science in Management).

Groupe ESC Rouen also offers European Management Seminars which are customized intensive management seminars on “Doing Business in the European Union”. These seminars are organised at the Undergraduate, Graduate and Post-Graduate level (Full-Time MBA and Executive MBA).

ARGENTINA

Universidad Nacional del Sur

UCA Universidad Catolica Argentina

Universidad Argentina de la Empresa

Griffith University

La Trobe University

Swinburne University of Technology

University of Applied Sciences, IMC Fachhochschule Krems

Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck

Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz

Katho Katholieke Hogeschool Zuid-West-Vlaanderen

Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana

COPPEAD - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Instituto de Pos-Graduaçao e Pesquisa em Administraçao

Fundaçao Getulio Vargas

Universidade de Sao Paolo

Brock University, Faculty of Business

Wilfrid Laurier University, School of Business & Economics

Nipissing University, School of Business & Economics

University of Windsor, the Odette School of Business

Dalhousie University, Faculty of Management

University of Manitoba, I.H. Asper School of Business

University of Saskatchewan, College of Commerce

Saint Mary's University, The F. Sobey Faculty of Commerce

University of Northern British Columbia, School of Business

University of Western Ontario, Richard Ivey School of Business

Concordia University, John Molson School of Business

Université Laval, Faculté des Sciences de l'Administration

McGill University, Desautels Facutly of Management

McMaster University, DeGroote School of Business

University of Ottawa, School of Management

Queen's University, School of Business

Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté d'Administration

UQAM - Université du Québec, Ecole des Sciences de la Gestion

University of Victoria, Faculty of Business

York University, Faculty of Administrative Studies

University of Calgary, Haskayne School of Business

Universidad Adolfo Ibanez

Universidad Andres Bello

Universidad Catolica del Norte

Universidad de los Andes

Universidad de Chile

Universidad Diego Portates, Santiago

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Zhejiang University

University of Macau

Wuhan University

Ningbo University of Technology

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Shanghai University

CESA Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración

Universidad Externado de Colombia

Universidad de los Andes, Bogota

Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus

Business Academy Copenhagen North

Copenhagen Business School

International University Audentes, Tallin

HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences

Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences

Helsinki School of Economics & Business Administration

Turku School of Economics

Fachhochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin

Hochschule Pforzheim Universityof Applied Sciences

Fachhochschule Reutlingen

VWA - Studienakademie Stuttgart

Hochschule Für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden

European Business School

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnis Universität Hannover

WHU Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management

Friedrich Alexander-Universität Erlangen

Universität Regensburg

Universität des Saarlandes

Corvinus University of Budapest

University of Miskolc

Birla Institute of Management Technology

Bishop Heber College

NMIMS Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies

University of Dublin, Trinity College

Tel Aviv University

Università degli Studi del Molise

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

LUISS Libera Università Internazionale di Studi Sociali

Università degli studi di Genova

Akita International University

Rikkyo University - College of Business

Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

Sophia University

ESA Ecole Supérieure des Affaires

Universiti Sains-Malaysia

University of Malaya

ISCAE Institut Supérieur de Commerce et d'Administration des Entreprises

Universidad de Monterrey

Universidad Regiomontana

Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Tamaulipas

Universidad Iberoamericana

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

TEC Campus Ciudad de México

TEC Campus Estado de México

TEC Campus de Guadalajara

TEC Campus de Monterrey

TEC Campus de Guernavaca

TEC Campus Toluca

NHH Norges Handelshøyskole

Universidad del Pacifico

ESAN - Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados

University of Gdansk

Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship & Management

Gdansk University of Technology

Warsaw University

Universidade Catolica Portuguesa

RUSSIA

MIRBIS - Moscow International Higher Business School

Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, Faculty of Economics and Management

Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics

State University of Management

ISM Institut Supérieur de Management

Singapore Management University

Seoul National University

Universidad de Almeria

Universidad de León

Universidad Pública de Navarra

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Universidad de Deusto

Universidad Carlos III

Universidad de Cordoba

ESIC Escuela Superior de Gestion Comercial y Marketing

Universidad Pontificia Comillas - ICADE

Universidad de Salamanca

Universidad de Valencia

Halmstad University

Karlstad University

Göteborg University

Lund University

Stockholm University School of Business

Assumption University

Chulalongkorn University

HAN Arnhem Business School

Inholland University Rotterdam

Universiteit Maastricht

Tilburg University

Bogazici University

Bilkent University, Ankara

Middle East Technical University, Ankara

University of Hull Business School

Glasgow Caledonian University

University of Sunderland

University of Westminster

Aston University Business School

University of Bath

Kingston University

The University of Nottingham Business School

University of Warwick

Fairfield University, the Charles F. Dolan School of Business

Michigan State University, the Eli Broad College of Business

Hamline University, Graduate School of Management, St Paul, Minnesota

Bentley College

California Polytechnic State University, Orfalea College of Business

Indiana University, Kelley School of Business

Minnesota State University, Mankato, College of Business

Pittsburgh University, College of Business Administration

University of Richmond, Robins School of Business

Towson University, College of Business & Economics

MIIS Monterrey Institute of International Studies, the Fisher Graduate School of Int. Business

Brandeis University International Business School

Emory University, Goizueta Business School

University of Florida, the Warrington College of Business Administration

Montclair State University, School of Business

The Pennsylvania State University, Smeal College of Business

Pepperdine University, The Graziado School of Business and Management

SMU Cox Business School

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, College of Business & Economics

International network:
AACSB
EFMD
AUF
RAMEGE

Other Information
Main sector of activity of graduates (2004):
- Consultancy and auditing : 29%
- Finance, banks, insurance : 18%
- Chemicals and pharmaceutical industry : 8%

Main strength promoted by the school:
- International partners (more than 100 universities around the world) and its new European programme:
- Business simulation games
- Alumni network (over 14 000)
- Partnerships with companies
- The campus (7 hectares)

Ten main recruiting companies:
- Ernst & Young
- Société Générale
- BNP Paribas
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- KPMG
- Total
- PSA
- Axa
- Renault
- Deloitte

Companies recruiting on campus (2008):

-AUDIT - CONSULTING : ACCENTURE, DELOITTE, ERNST & YOUNG, GRANT THORNTON, KPMG, MAZARS, PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS, PWC Luxembourg, UNILOG - Groupe LogicaCMG -BANKING - INSURANCE : AXA, BNP PARIBAS, CREDIT AGRICOLE, EULER HERMES SFAC, FORTIS BANQUE, GOLDMAN SACHS, GROUPE CREDIT DU NORD, HSBC France, NATIXIS, SOCIETE GENERALE -INDUSTRIALS : BMW GROUP, BOUYGUES CONSTRUCTION, GROUPE LEGRAND, REXEL, SAGEM COMMUNICATIONS - GROUPE SAFRAN -MASS RETAILS : CARREFOUR Hypermarché France, CASTORAMA, GALERIES LAFAYETTE, PROMOD, WOLSELEY FRANCE

-MASS PRODUCTS: BRASSERIES KRONENBOURG, COCA COLA ENTREPRISE, COLGATE PALMOLIVE, DIM SAS / DBApparel, FERRERO France, GLAXOSMITHKLINE SANTE GRAND PUBLIC, GROUPE DANONE, GROUPE YVES ROCHER, HENKEL France, KRAFT FOODS France, MARS France, MCDONALD's France Services, NIELSEN, PEPSICO France, PERNOD - GROUPE PERNOD RICARD, PROCTER & GAMBLE, UNILEVER -SERVICES : ACCOR, ADECCO, BOUYGUES TELECOM, CMA CGM / DELMAS, REED BUSINESS INFORMATION, SFR, SNCF, TNS SOFRES

Famous graduates

• Philippe Besson, Author
• Jacques Bitton, M&A CEO, Société Générale
• Marc Brandsma, MBA Chicago, Founder, Netvibes
• Vincent Cotard, President, GlaxoSmithKline Santé Grand Public
• Philippe Doucet, Journalist, Canal +
• Christian Duval, CEO France, Gillette
• Louis Giscard d'Estaing, MBA Insead, Member of Parliament
• Yves Goblet, MBA Harvard, Vice-President, TPS
• David Guiraud, CEO, Groupe Les Échos
• Bruno Keller, CEO, Eurazeo
• Brigitte Liberman, CEO, L'Oréal Cosmétique Active International
• Jacky Lintignat, CEO France, KPMG
• Denis Martin, Chairman, Cegetel
• Alain Nemarq, CEO, Mauboussin
• Jean-Marie Osdoit, CEO, Volvo CE Europe SAS
• Sophie Saint Bonnet, CEO, Daum
• Didier Taupin, President, Ineum Consulting
• Laurent Zeller, CEO France, AC Nielsen

External links

• http://www.esc-rouen.fr/
• http://www.efmd.be/equis/list.htm
• http://www.myescrouen.com/