HEC Paris
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The HEC Paris ( or École des hautes études commerciales Paris ) is a French university that offers various courses in the field of business administration and business management. The allocation of study places in their highly selective Grande Ecole is from the Commerce and Industry Chamber of Paris ( CCIP ) financed and managed.
The HEC Paris is one of the leading management universities in the world. Since 2005, the HEC will be awarded in the international Financial Times ranking as the best business school, the price offered by the university master's degree was in 2007-2009 the best in the world ( currently ranked 2nd behind the HEC cooperation program CEMS ). In the area of executive education, HEC 2011 is worldwide the first place and referred the Harvard Business School in second place. In the same year the HEC Finance program was rated as the best Finance Master of the world.
As one of the world's 35 business schools HEC Paris has been awarded the prestigious Triple Crown Triple accreditation: EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA.
The university has with their graduates produced a variety of well known personalities in business and politics, including the French President François Hollande, several reigning French Minister and the current WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy. The HEC Paris is now making the most of the CEOs of Fortune 500 - companies of all universities in Europe and the fourth most worldwide.
- 2.1 MBA
- 2.2 EMBA
- 2.3 Trium Global Executive MBA
MSc courses
The HEC offers various economics courses following a bachelor's degree.
Overview of courses
MSc in Management
The MSc in Management is designed as Grande- Ecole- study. In the total 18-month study program that is aimed at students with a previous bachelor's degree from any discipline, is first taught basic business management and economics knowledge especially. Through the program, students can enter this in the form of an additional selection directly into the second year of the Grande- Ecole- study. A six-month internship during their studies is mandatory, so that the entire program duration is usually in two years. In the last academic year, students specialize in one specific focus such as marketing, tax and legal strategies, finance, business creation and management, economics or strategic management. Through a series of cooperation programs, there is the possibility, in addition to the HEC MSc in Management a dual degree with another university, MIT and the University of Berlin to acquire.
MSc in International Business
The study program MSc in International Business (HEC MIB ) depends in contrast to the MSc in Management only to students with a bachelor's degree in economics discipline. The 12- month program is here the possibility to deepen the already acquired knowledge from the respective undergraduate programs and to specialize in certain areas. In addition, a 16- week internship after studying is required.
Due to the HEC MIB is available for selected students the additional option on the International Higher Education Alliance CEMS to acquire a double master 's degree. In this case, the students spend while studying at HEC Paris another term at a CEMS partner university for which they have previously advertised on the HEC - selection process. Following their studies, students are awarded in this case both the HEC MSc in International Business as well as with the CEMS Master in International Management ( CEMS MIM). The CEMS MIM is currently out in the Financial Times as the best management master's degree in the world.
MSc in Finance
When MSc in Finance (HEC MIF) is a special report where on financially scientific study knowledge should be deepened. A bachelor's degree in economics a discipline is required as in the HEC MIB. In addition to the HEC MIF additional degrees are awarded at the end of study in certain tracks. A 10 - week internship is mandatory requirement. The program lasts a total of 12 months.
MSc in Sustainable Development
The MSc in Sustainable Development is a 2010 study for the first time been translated program in which especially the sustainable management and development must be intensified.
Additional information about MSc courses
Admission
Almost everyone interested in a HEC university place has French students (known as classe préparatoire ) visited prior to its application to the HEC special preparation courses. On average, about 16,000 students attend said also prépa HEC preparatory program for the HEC Master, which is to prepare through intensive academic training on the competitive selection process of the university.
For normally two years, the student commit while to devote a week of prep work for inclusion in the Master's program at least 58 hours. The teaching material covers mainly from the departments of mathematics, economics, history of economics, philosophy, literature, English and another foreign language.
In 2009, 380 of 4193 applicant pool a Master's degree course at HEC offered, which corresponds to a Annahmeqoute of about 9 percent. With 374 commitments almost all of the previously selected students took the place of study offered (the commitment rate was 98 percent). For the MSc in Management program, the contrast ratio of applicants and university place offers is even stronger: There were in 2009 to 1079 applications only 50 commitments for a university place. Many of the accepted applicants already possess it a master's degree from another university.
The Department for International Approvals ( service of international admissions ) has to recruit to task for the HEC Grande Ecole - study as well as the courses of some other Grandes Écoles foreign students. The HEC chooses selectively from among the candidates who must have earned at least a Bachelor / Bachelor outside France. The selection is based on three criteria, a written application, an interview and the GMAT or the French DAYS - MAGE. The average GMAT score directly to incoming students in 2008 was 720, the average DAYS - MAGE- 440 The result thus adopted candidates begin in the second year of the Grande- Ecole program and receive at the end of the Master of Science degree in management from the HEC. However, this is not a government in France Master 's degree, but a completion of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles.
Career
More than half of the graduates of HEC MSc programs will change after her studies in the areas of management consulting and finance. In February 2007, while working for an analysis of the university about 2 /3 of the graduating class of 2006 in France. The average starting salary of graduates worked in France at this time was about 47,000 euros, whereas it was higher outside France Alumni working on average 69,000 euros.
Executive Education
In addition to the academic master's degree programs are offered with prior work experience through the HEC for a number of trades people. These include
MBA
The MBA program of the University was founded in 1969 and thus made the HEC to one of the first business schools in Europe that offer such a degree. An attempt to differentiate themselves in a particular way from other MBA curricula by offering bilingual teaching option, a special study structure and organisiertien by MBA students tournaments.
Through partnerships with international universities the students a number of exchange and double degree options are in addition available. A part-time MBA program is offered as well.
In 2008 was conducted on rank 6 and world ranked 18 of the HEC MBA by the Financial Times Europe.
EMBA
The HEC Executive MBA (EMBA ) is a program for managers with at least eight years of professional experience. It is intended to prepare students for higher management functions. The program finds it next to Paris to study various places instead, including Beijing (China) and Saint Petersburg ( Russia). Other partner universities of the 16- month study program are to NYU and UCLA in the USA and the Nihon University in Japan.
Trium Global Executive MBA
The Trium Global Executive MBA is a joint program of the HEC (France), LSE ( UK), and NYU (USA). The 16-month program is currently being conducted around the world by the Financial Times and of Whitefield Consulting as the second best Global EMBA program. It takes place over five study locations worldwide in a total of six modules.
Doctorate ( PhD)
In addition to the above programs, the HEC offers the possibility to form an approximately four-year doctoral (PhD).
Surroundings
Like most Grande Ecoles HEC also has an active club life, there are artistic, humanitarian, political and sports clubs.
The campus is located about 20 km south of Paris and covers approximately 100 acres, including several football pitches and a rugby pitch. In the vicinity also three other known Grande Écoles are located: the École Polytechnique, the Ecole Centrale Paris and Supélec.
Among the colleges that financed and managed the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the ESCP Europe is one.
Books and Movies
- HEC, derrière la porte étroite by Christophe Lamotte, 1998 55 minute documentary about the university HEC, a Coproduction with Canal Plus. (French)
- Nos années HEC Christie Vanbremeersch, 2004, a book about the " myths, rites and taboos of a Grande Ecole ". (French)
Known graduates in current top positions
Economy Henri de Castries ( H76 ), CEO of Axa Baudouin Prot ( H72 ), CEO of BNP Paribas Louis Gallois ( H66 ), CEO of EADS Stéphane Richard ( H83 ), CEO of France Télécom François -Henri Pinault, billionaire, CEO of PPR Jean -Paul Agon ( H78 ), CEO of L' Oréal Hubert Joly ( H81 ), CEO of Best Buy Francis Bouygues ( H51 ), Founder of Bouygues Isabelle Guichot CEO of Balenciaga François -Henri Pinault, CEO, Kering Jean -Dominique Sénard, CEO, Michelin Jacques Richier, CEO, Allianz France
Policy François Hollande ( H75 ), President of France Dominique Strauss- Kahn ( H71 ), general secretary of the International Monetary Fund ( 2007-2011), French Minister of Finance (1997-1999) Pascal Lamy ( H69 ), Director-General of WHO
Honorary graduates
In addition to regular graduates, the HEC Paris also awards honorary degrees, among others, the following well-known personalities. Jens Weidmann, President of the German Bundesbank José Manuel Barroso, President of European Commission Bill Gates, founder and CEO of Microsoft Valéry Giscard d' Estaing, former President of France Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, former President of the USSR Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Aleksander Kwasniewski, former President of Poland Samuel J. Palmisano, CEO of IBM Romano Prodi, former President of European Commission, former Prime Minister of Italy Helmut Schmidt, former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Abdoulaye Wade, former President of Senegal