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ESC Rennes School of Business
Institution Info
ESC Rennes School of Business or École Supérieure de Commerce de Rennes is a French business school located in Rennes, the capital of Brittany. This modern international business school was founded in 1990 by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Rennes and cooperates closely with the local industry. ESC Rennes belongs to the group of prestigious French Grandes Écoles, elite graduate schools.
ESC Rennes is distinguished by its global outlook, international student body and international faculty. In addition to the prestigious French Grande École degrees, ESC Rennes awards British certified qualifications such as: BA, MA, MSc, Executive MBA and PhD. The school also offers Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree in China in cooperation with Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The ESC Rennes School of Business, located in the heart of Brittany with a determinedly international orientation, aims to transmit its commitment to entrepreneurship and to sustainable development to current and future business leaders. Its teaching and research, firmly based on the notions of discovery, understanding, diversity and responsibility, are designed to prepare managers and entrepreneurs for globalization.
Facts and Figures
| No. of students: | 1,240* |
| No. of Academic staff: | 62 |
| Funding type: | Public |
Student Life
ESC Rennes is located in the city of Rennes, the capital city of Brittany, one of the most beautiful regions in the western part of France, 2 hours from Paris by TGV fast train. It is regarded by the national press as being one of the best places to live among France's largest cities. With a population of 350,000, including 60,000 students, for the international student, Rennes offers the full advantages of a large city while at the same time being convivial in size. The city has a very attractive urban, sporting and cultural environment: modern sports facilities, cinemas, theatres, cultural centres, museums, libraries, restaurants and pubs.
Rennes sets the pace in Brittany's regional development, benefiting from a dynamic economic environment: telecommunications, new technologies, tourism, transport, logistics and services, etc. Rennes has earned itself an excellent reputation in several high tech research areas, such as cellular biology, computing and telecommunications.
The school provides modern facilities equipped with new technology, open 24 hours a day, 6 days a week. The distinguishing feature of the business school is a covered in-house walkway "Rue des Entrepreneurs", lined up with palm trees. ESC Rennes offers wide range of facilities including multimedia center, library, language resource center, video production department, IT facilities, two sports halls, cafeteria, student's club and other leisure facilities.
Campus
* amphi
* a covered walkway, the "Rue des Entrepreneurs",
* a place to meet and chat
* a multimedia resource centre
* a language resource centre
* a production department with video and camera systems
* a cyber-space (Internet access)
* two sports halls
* a students' club
* cafeteria
Accommodation
ESC Rennes School of Business helps international students to find accommodation in Rennes. There are several possibilities :
* furnished flat-share with other students
* individual furnished flats
* home stay
* private self-catering residences
* Crous (very few rooms available).
The Library
The Library, open 62 hours per week, including Saturday :
* 20 500 recent books on management (50% in English),
* the main French, English and American Databases on Management,
* 215 french and international journals on business in printed format
* available off campus 24 hours a day : a range of full text electronic journals in English ( 2 480 academic journals + about 3 000 international business magazines ) + a collection of e-books,
* a range of research publications,
* a range of company annual reports
Accreditation
The school is accredited by The French Ministry of Education (French: Le Ministère de L'éducation Nationale), The European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD - EPAS Label) and The Open University of the United Kingdom, all of which are testimony to the school's high academic standard.
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