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HEC School of Management
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- For other schools named Hautes Études Commerciales, see Hautes Études Commerciales.
The HEC Paris School of Management or École des Hautes Études Commerciales, is a business school, and one of the most prestigious French Grandes Écoles. It was founded in 1881 by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris. It has been ranked the top Business School in Europe by the Financial Times of London[1], since 2005.
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The Master of Science in Management is HEC's leading program. 380 students are accepted each year after succeeding at what is known as a concours for which they prepare for two years in classes préparatoires HEC. There are around 3700 candidates and no complementary list. This program then lasts for three years, plus generally an extra one year of internship between the second and the third year.
HEC's MSc in Management has been ranked number one in Europe by the Financial Times since 2005.
The DEA Diplôme d'études approfondies was a postgraduate degree equivalent to the Master's degree in the Anglo-Saxon countries. The DEA was a 1-2 years degree taken after a maîtrise (4-year French undergraduate program) in a university prior to entering a doctoral program. It is progressively subsumed into the Bologna process Master's degrees and research-oriented MAS (Master of Advanced Studies).
The International Admissions Service (SAI) manages the student recruitment tests and interviews on behalf of the HEC Grande École and four other Grandes Écoles in France. HEC Grande École, through SAI, selects only those candidates with a degree gained upon successful completion of at least three years of university education outside France (equivalent to the French licence or Bachelor’s degree). The selected students enroll directly in the second year of the Grande École Program and, after two years, get HEC's degree of Master of Science in Management.
HEC offers a number of Master of Business Administration programs.
In 1969, HEC Paris launched the full time HEC MBA Program, becoming one of Europe's first MBA Schools. It aims to differentiate from other MBAs by its diversity, its bilingual option, its 16-month curriculum structure, and the MBA Tournament organized by its students.
The Institut supérieur des affaires is the department of the École des Hautes Études Commerciales that manages its full-time MBA program. The HEC MBA Programattracts exceptional students from around the world with more than 55 nationalities represented in the 2005 graduating class. The rigorous selection process seeks an overall balance between academic achievement, professional experience, international exposure, and personal motivation. Knowledge of French is not an entry requirement, but participants are highly encouraged to have a basic knowledge of French at the start of the MBA Program.
In addition to completing the online application form, candidates must present an official university transcript; official GMAT test scores; TOEFL, IELTS, or TOEIC results if applicable; two letters of recommendation; and essay responses. Pre-selected candidates are invited to attend evaluation interviews conducted on campus or in designated cities around the world. The HEC MBA Program has exchange and double degree partnerships with numerous universities and business schools around the world.
HEC offers a number of Executive MBAs[1]
- In French [2]
- In English
- In France [3]
- In China [4]
- In cooperation with the London School of Economics and the Stern School of Business it runs TRIUM, a global MBA program [5], recently ranked as the second best EMBA program worldwide by Financial Times [6]
According to a ranking of the Ecole de Mines de Paris, based on the number of alumni among the Chief Executive Officers of the 500 leading worldwide companies, HEC Paris is the fifth leading "university" in the world.
- Pierre Bellon, Chairman, Sodexho Alliance
- Daniel Bernard, Former CEO, Carrefour, France
- Jean-Jacques Bertrand, President, Aventis Pasteur
- Henri de Castries, Chairman of the Management Board & CEO, AXA
- Louis Gallois, CEO, EADS
- Isabelle Guichot, CEO, Van Cleef & Arpels International
- Jean-Marc Perraud, Executive Vice President and CFO of Schlumberger Limited
- Henri Proglio, Chairman of the Management Board, Veolia
- Michel de Rosen, Chairman of the Board & CEO, ViroPharma Incorporated
- Sidney Taurel, Chairman, President & CEO, Eli Lilly & Co, USA
- Didier Pineau-Valencienne
- Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organization
- Jean-Louis Borloo, Social Affairs Minister
- François d'Aubert
- Hervé de Charette
- Georges Frêche
- François Hollande, first secretary of the French Socialist party
- Serge Lepeltier
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF president
HEC is located on a 110-hectare woodland campus in Jouy-en-Josas, 16 km. (10 miles) southwest of central Paris (as the crow flies), next to Versailles. Lodging is provided for students as well as sporting and various other facilities. A map of the campus can be found at: http://www.hec.fr/hec/fr/groupe/campus/index.html.
Numerous clubs or societies exist on campus (around 130). One of alumni's websites is www.campushec.com -in french-, which gives a presentation of every one of these. Among these clubs are:
- Rugby Club HEC
- Ski Club HEC (external site [7])
- Filles HEC Rugby (girls' rugby team)
- Club Football
- HEC débats, which organizes debates and conferences on campus
- Grand Cru, one of the most famous wine organisations amongst Grandes Ecoles' (external site [8])
Above all, The HEC Student Council (Bureau des Eleves in French) is in charge of the global entertainment of the campus, as well as of the coordination of all club activities and of the representation of the students in front of the campus administration.
The BDE thus organizes weekly events such as parties (HEC parties are some of the most recognized ones among all French schools and universities), lunchs and brunchs, spectacles and other sport and corporate manifestations. The BDE is a 40-student team being elected each year in April and for which the competition among students creates the well-known Student Office Campaign.
More generally, each club changes its leading team around June every year and students who get involved in leading positions are thus rewarded after one year of basic involvement.