All You Need to Know About ESCP Europe Business School – www.escpeurope.eu
All You Need to Know About ESCP Europe Business School
ESCP Europe Business School – The school was established in Paris on 1 December 1819 as the world’s first business school by a group of economic scholars and businessmen including the well-known economist Jean-Baptiste Say and the celebrated trader Vital Roux.
It was modeled on the first Grande École, the École Polytechnique founded by Lazare Carnot and Gaspard Monge, but was initially much more modest, mainly because it had not been supported by the state.
ESCP Europe Business School
It gradually gained in stature and importance during the 19th century and moved to its current Parisian location on Avenue de la République in 1898.
In 1828, the project to put the school under the authority of the French Ministry of Commerce and Industry failed.
The school remained independent by the intervention of Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui who took it over. Several times during the first half of the 19th century, French politics planned on grouping ESCP Europe with French elite engineering schools such as École Polytechnique or École Centrale Paris, but that never occurred. From 1838, the French state began to give scholarships to ESCP Europe’s students and in 1852 it accredited ESCP Europe’s programs.
Finally, in 1869 the Paris Chamber of Commerce bought the school to train future business leaders to modern commercial methods. Until 1870 there was only one business school in France: ESCP Europe. In 1892, ESCP Europe set up selective admission processes which still take the form of competitive exams.
On April 5, 1973 the concept of a multi-campus business school was founded with the consecutive inaugurations of campuses in the United Kingdom (London in 1974, move to Oxford in 1975) and in Germany (Düsseldorf in 1975, move to Berlin in 1985).
Since then, the school has deepened its European presence to become an integrated pan-European business school.
- In 1985, the School’s campus in Germany moves from Düsseldorf to Berlin at the invitation of the Government of Berlin.
- In 1988, a fourth campus is opened in Madrid.
- In 1999, ESCP merges with its sister school EAP.
- In 2001, the Master in Management programme of ESCP Europe is validated by City University London.
- In 2004, a fifth campus in Torino, Italy is founded. Validated by the University of Turin, Master in Management students can obtain the Italian degree Laurea Magistrale.
- In 2005, the School inaugurates its London campus having moved from Oxford.
- In 2007, the Master in Management programme is recognized by the Charles III University of Madrid and students can obtain the Spanish degree of Master Europeo en Administración y Dirección de Empresas.
- In 2015, the School establishes its sixth European campus via a strategic alliance with the Warsaw-based Kozminski University.
- In 2016, the School decides to strengthen its footprint in Paris by adding a second campus located in the Montparnasse area after buying back Novancia Business School’s building. The campus is dedicated to executive programs.
Mission, Vision and Values
Our Mission:
“ESCP Europe’s mission is to inspire and educate tomorrow’s business leaders.”
Our conviction is that tomorrow’s business leaders will need to be international, digital, and inter-culturally effective. Our approach to education and organisational structure reflects this, with strongly international programmes delivered by an integrated (pan-European) Faculty across campuses in each of Europe’s principal markets.
We advance this mission through our unique approach to international management education and research, which promotes transnational experience, collaboration and learning within a pan-European framework.
In 2015, the School formalized a unique approach and perspective under the C4B acronym: Cultures for (4) Business. This continues to guide our work and is now embedded into a new Strategic Plan for the period 2018-2022.
Our Vision
(What and where we want to be by 2022)
“In 2022, ESCP Europe will be recognized worldwide as the leading European business school for internationally-focused management education.
Our vision, to become true, implies:
- producing and disseminating world-class research in international/comparative management that shapes the way organisations and leaders think and behave;
- producing culturally and digitally smart graduates equipped to shape and connect tomorrow’s business worlds;
- engaging meaningfully with business, alumni and government to foster advancements in international management practice and intercultural relations;
- harnessing diversity in all of its forms as a source of innovation, strength and leadership
Rankings
2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |
FT – Executive MBA | 16th | 13th | 12th | 10th | 11th |
FT – Executive Education Open | 41st | 29th | 28th | 27th | 37th |
FT – Executive Education Customized | 56th | 28th | 27th | 24th | 18th |
FT – Master in Management | 7th | 7th | 4th | 6th | 5th |
FT – Master in Finance | 8th | 3rd | 2nd | 4th | 2nd |
Campus
ESCP Europe students have the opportunity to study in campuses in France (Paris), in the UK (London), Spain (Madrid), Germany (Berlin), Italy (Turin), and Poland (Warsaw). They can spend either 6 months or 1 year on each campus according to their study choices.
Each campus has its own specifics and develops programs with local academic institutions. For instance, in Spain ESCP Europe provides a Master in Business Project Management co-delivered with the Technical University of Madrid.
From 2017, ESCP Europe will have two campuses in Paris. One near the Place de la République (11th arrondissement of Paris) and another one near the Montparnasse Tower (15th arrondissement of Paris). Each campus is dedicated to a specific range of programs.
The campus in the 11th arrondissement hosts all the graduate programs whereas the campus in the 15th arrondissement hosts the undergraduate education, the executive education and the school’s start-up Incubator, the Blue Factory.
This organization is unique to Paris. In every other school undergraduate, graduate and executive education are dispensed in the same campus.
Programmes Available:
Full-time Programme
- Bachelor in Management (BSc)
- Pre-Master Year
- Master in Management
- Specialized Masters/MSc
- MBA in International Management
- Ph. D. Doctoral Programmes
- PART-TIME PROGRAMMES
- Executive MBA
- Executive Masters
- Open Programmes
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- Online Programmes
- Summer Courses
Programs are taught in:
- English
- French
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