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Now in its 100th year and with over 4500 students on its double campus registered for the academic year 2006-2007, EDHEC Business School is the leading management education group in France.
Ranked in the top 5 business schools in France, it is the leader in international programmes, offering a wide choice of management programmes, 7 of which are targeted specifically at foreign students and taught entirely in English.
In 2006, 37 nationalities joined the Master of Science programmes alone.
Internationally renowned for its excellence in research (the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre is ranked number 1 in Europe) and for its experienced international faculty, EDHEC Business School is proud to belong to the
elite club of business schools (only 1% worldwide) to have been awarded all three accreditations, EQUIS, AMBA and AASCB.
The 17,000 graduates from EDHEC Business School are represented across the globe in over 100 countries and form a powerful international alumni network.
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While the Business School's two main units, the ESPEME Bachelor programme and the EDHEC Grande Ecole Master programme are present on both the Lille and Nice campus, the School has nevertheless chosen to reinforce the specificity of each campus.
Over the last few years, the Nice campus has been given an increasingly international role with the portfolio of international programmes taught entirely in English on this campus. (Master of Science programmes, The Theseus-EDHEC MBA,Intercontinental Track and English Track (now also available in Lille) thus naturally find their place on this campus.
EDHEC's Career Service organises a variety of events, conferences and meetings to help students enter professional life but the highlight of the year is undoubtedly the EDHEC Job Forum that takes place annually in Paris at the start of each new year. This event fits in nicely with the students' job-search calendar, when companies start thinking seriously about hiring competent students for their trainee programmes, internships and full time positions. Read next page
The EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre and the IEIF (an independent French real estate research institute), with the support of Finance Innovation, the global competitiveness institution, have announced the launch of the EDHEC IEIF Commercial Property Index (France). Read next page
A “call for reaction” was sent by EDHEC to international institutional investors and asset managers to compare investor views of amendments to the IAS39 and IFRS 7 standards not just with the conclusions of an initial EDHEC study, but also with the ambitions of these reforms prepared and adopted in great haste. Read next page
EDHEC Business School is currently in 9th place of the Financial Times Rankings of European Masters Programmes. French business schools have a reputation of excellence in standards of education throughout Europe and the proof of this can be seen in the latest rankings by the Financial Times, clearly dominated by French Business Schools. This ranking is a measure of quality for all candidates searching for a Masters programme in Europe. Read next page
EDHEC's finance students were among around 1200 participants of the fourth edition of the EDHEC Alternative Investment Days at the ExCeL Centre in London on 9th and 10th December. The conference presented the applied research conducted by the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre with leading pension fund managers and lead to discussion of the results with the institutional investor and fund manager communities. This event is the largest European conference on hedge funds and has become one of the highlights in EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre's calendar. Read next page
This annual event provides the opportunity to meet exchange students coming from all parts of the world and learn about their school, country, culture and people or simply ask any questions that students might have to make the right decision about their very own academic exchange. Read next page
The Theseus-EDHEC MBA participants have just returned from their first business trip to the north African country of Morocco as part of their Global Business Module. This much-appreciated course sets the Theseus-EDHEC MBA apart from more conventional MBA programmes as for 2 week-long sessions, the participants are taken to an emerging economy to learn first-hand about international business practices, study different leadership styles and find out more about the political issues of the country. Read next page
To provide maximum company contacts for students regular business lunches with company representatives are organised by various departments at EDHEC Business School. The MSc in Marketing Management students recently had one such lunch to discuss recruitment possibilities with representatives of the Redcats group, the leader in home shopping with 15 brands present in 29 countries. Read next page
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