HEC Paris—Train the Business Leader of Tomorrow

 
Founded in 1881, HEC Paris specializes in education and research in management sciences. As a leading academic institution in Europe and worldwide, HEC Paris offers a complete and unique range of education programs for students and leaders. HEC Paris has a permanent faculty of 105 professors, 4000 students, -40% of whom are international, and over 8700 managers in executive education programs every year.

A COMPLETE AND UNIQUE PROGRAM PORTFOLIO

Masters Degrees

MSc in Management, “Grande Ecole” degree is an 18-month program, designed for students who hold a Bachelor’s degree in any field. The 1st year is comprised of general business courses; the 2nd year is devoted to the student’s area of specialization and research project.

Masters of Science are one-year pre-experience full-time programs in English designed for students who hold a Bachelor’s degree in Business and who want to acquire an expertise in a specific field of management: International Business, Finance, Financial Economics and Sustainable Development.

Specialized Masters are 12-month courses in French or English. They are designed for students at postgraduate level who want to acquire high-level expertise and professional know-how in their chosen specialization.
 

MBA Program

Full-Time Option (16 months) and Part-Time Option (24 months)

The MBA addresses both functional and cross-functional skills through a fundamental and a customized thread to cover all areas of management in depth. Participants will, throughout the program, enhance their leadership potential through unique learning experiences in a diverse environment, developing their self-awareness and people & relationship management, to boost and change their career path.

Ph.D. Program

The Ph.D. program shapes professor-researchers, offering high quality internationally renowned training. It is a highly selective program with 15 to 20 candidates admitted each year. 80% of the graduates work on the international academic scene.

Executive Education Programs

HEC Executive Education spans a wide range of degree and non-degree programs specifically designed for experienced managers and executives. In addition to EMBAs and Executive Masters Programs, HEC Executive Education offers Open-Enrolment Programs, Custom Programs and Coaching.

• Degree programs:

- TRIUM Global Executive MBA is a joint degree developed by HEC Paris, New York University Stern School of Business (NYU Stern) and the London School of Economics (LSE), specially designed for global executives and CEOs.

- HEC Paris Executive MBA is a multi-site degree program designed to meet the needs of executives and senior managers. The program is offered in 6 locations (Paris, HEC Paris campus, Beijing, Shanghai, St. Petersburg and Doha) and proposes 6 Majors (Aerospace and Aviation, Energy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Global Business Perspectives, Luxury and Differentiation through Service).

- Part-time Executive Masters are post-graduate degree programs providing specialized training in specific areas of management such as the MSc HEC Paris Oxford Consulting and Coaching for Change and the MSc HEC Paris Oxford Reinventing Management.

• Open-enrolment Programs are specific short and intense courses to strengthen managerial skills from 3 to 20 days, held in Paris and Doha.

• Custom programs are tailored and delivered to the precise specifications of the customer company.

KEY ADVANTAGES

• Cutting-edge Faculty and Research:

- Permanent faculty of 105 professors, holding PhDs from the world’s most prestigious universities, rendering the faculty 50% international.

- 9 academic departments:
Accounting & Management Control
Business Law & Taxation
Economics & Decision Science
Finance
Languages & Culture
Management & Human Resources
Marketing
Operation Management & Information Technology
Strategy & Business Policy

- 78 books published in French and 15 other languages (in the last five years) of which the principle reference works include: “Strategor”, “Mercator”, “International Investment”, “Industrial Management and Logistics”

- 304 articles published in refereed journals in the last five years

- 840 scientific contributions to conferences in the last 5 years

- HEC Paris has set up a research laboratory with CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research)

- Ecole Polytechnique and HEC Paris have brought together their research and teaching activities in the fields of finance and economics and launched the INSEFI – Paris

- HEC Paris has established Chairs to develop innovative skills and expertise in training and research within their sector with the support of such prestigious companies:

Accor - Air France - SNCF - Atos Origin - BNP Paribas - BPCE - Danone - Deloitte - EDF - Fédération Française Bancaire - Pernod Ricard - Renault - SFR - L’Oréal - Morgan Stanley - Unibail - Rodamco

• Privileged corporate relationships:

HEC Paris is committed to building partnerships with companies. This cooperation can take many forms and is tailored to companies’ areas of activity, as well as their research and recruitment needs. The HEC Paris Foundation comprises 49 international companies.

• Academic partnerships and strategic alliances:

HEC Paris has established prestigious strategic alliances and academic partnerships with more than 130 institutions in France and worldwide.

At all levels, international exchanges, dual-degree programs, and joint-degree options are offered in partnership with prestigious partner institutions worldwide such as the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Fundação Getulio Vargas-EAESP, the Graduate School of Management of St Petersburg State University, IIM Bangalore, the London Business School, the MIT Sloan School of Management, the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, the Stern School of Business New York University, Tsinghua University School of Economics & Management, the University of Oxford and the University of Tokyo.

• The HEC Paris Alumni network:

The HEC Paris Alumni network is among the largest in Europe with 44 000 Alumni based in 113 countries. It was founded in 1883 to develop a powerful and dynamic lifelong connection to the HEC Paris community. The HEC Paris alumni network promotes global awareness of the HEC Paris name and supports HEC Paris' future development.

• Centers of expertise:

HEC Paris has also developed various renowned centers of expertise, such as the “Visions of Leadership” Center with L’Oréal, the HEC Hedge Fund Center with the BNP Paribas bank, the HEC Europe Institute and the Eurasia Institute, among others.
 

First Class Reputation 

Rankings

- HEC Paris is ranked #1 in Europe by the FT for the fourth year running (meta survey)

- HEC Paris MSc in Management program is ranked #2 worldwide by the FT.

- HEC Paris MBA program is ranked # 14 worldwide by the Economist and #18 worldwide by the FT

- TRIUM Global Executive MBA program is ranked #2 worldwide by the FT

- HEC Paris Executive Education: #2 worldwide by the FT

- HEC Paris MSc in Management (Grande Ecole Program) is consistently ranked #1 in France by leading national publications including Le Point, L’Etudiant and le Figaro.
 

Accreditations

HEC Paris is the first business school in France to have received the prestigious triple accreditation from AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA.