Main characteristics of the French business schools

The French business schools offer courses including three years of studies of management. The entrance fees amount approximately to 5 500 Euros on average per annum, but there are ways of financing its studies Recruitment is opened to students from "classes prépas" but also to the holders of a university diploma with a minimum of two years of higher studies, in a procedure known as parallel admission. Many Business schools recruit students with a general certificate of education but few of them are " Grandes Ecoles ".

The distinction between Business schools and Grandes Ecoles is not always easy. There are in France more than one hundred Business schools but only about thirty of them can be regarded as Grandes Ecoles. The Conference des Grandes Ecoles federates most Grandes Ecoles in France, but some Grandes Ecoles are not members of the Conference and some Business Schools from the Conference do not have all the attributes of Grandes Ecoles. The visa and the homologation from the French Ministry of Education and the European label Equis also offer useful indications about the quality of a School.