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The school was ranked the twelfth best French business schools in 2023.[6]
Overview
History
1984: Foundation of Groupe ESC Grenoble, the first French Business school affiliated to Grandes écoles, to offer curricula based on technology management.
1988: Launch of the first specialized Master in International Marketing of New Technologies.
1990: 20th international exchange agreement with partner universities.
1993: The first French DBA (Doctor of Business Administration), AMBA accredited is developed at the school, in partnership with Henley Management College.
1997: Opening up of 3,000 square meters of space in the school dedicated to multimedia and international programs.[7] Sup de Co Grenoble is located in the World trade center, business area at Grenoble. ESC Grenoble collaborated with engineering schools (INPG, ENSIMAG, ENST Bretagne, Mines Telecom...)
2000: Groupe ESC Grenoble receives EQUIS accreditation from the EFMD, placing it among the top business schools in Europe. A recruitment office is opened in Shanghai, to expose the Chinese market to the school's international programs.
2001: Groupe ESC Grenoble becomes a multi-site school by setting up its programs internationally: 1 in Russia, 1 in Moldova, 1 in Malta, 2 in China.
40% of the student bodies now comes from abroad.
2002: Thierry Grange (International director, honorary consul of Norway, ex-CEO) becomes dean and director general of Groupe ESC Grenoble.
2003: ESC Grenoble group change its name and becomes Grenoble Ecole de Management
GEM campus.
2004: Grenoble Ecole de Management obtains AACSB accreditation, an international recognition of the school's quality, and is awarded AMBA accreditation for its MBA program. GEM is triple accredited with AMBA-EQUIS-AACSB.
2004-05: The school's Master in International Business program receives PEMM accreditation from AMBA and is ranked eighth in the Financial Times ranking of European Masters in Management.[8]
2007: Geopolitics becomes compulsory both in the ESC Grenoble entry exam and in the core curriculum ("Grande Ecole program").
2008: Grenoble Ecole de Management is a founding member of the Innovation Campus GIANT alongside the ESRF, ILL, EMBL, CNRS, CEA, Grenoble INP and the UJF.[9]
2009: The school jumps 11 places in the annual Financial Times European business schools ranking, having been ranked in the top 20 best schools in Europe.[10]
2012: Former Associate Director, Vice-Dean in charge of Academics, Research and Faculty, Senior Professor, Management and Behaviour, Loïck Roche becomes Grenoble Ecole de Management's third director.[12]
2013: Grenoble Ecole de Management opens a new campus in Paris to promote its international and executive education programs.[13]
2016: On 14 March, during an interview with "Le Monde", Lise Dumasy, president of the University of Grenoble-Alpes (UGA), declared that Grenoble-Alpes University and Grenoble School of Management (GEM) will deliver double degrees in Engineering, law, politics, philosophy and economics fields.
In March 2016, Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) and EMLYON Business School announced their alliance, the Alliance Lyon Grenoble Business School.[15]
2017: Grenoble Ecole de Management is consistently ranked among "the 5 best universities and business schools in France" according to Le Figaro,[16]Financial Times[17] for MS in management and by The Economist 2018 and QS World University 2018 for global MBA.
2019: Grenoble has a network of more than 40,500 alumni in the world with representatives at London, Dubai, Berlin, Hong Kong, San Francisco.
Grande école degrees
GEM is a grande école, a French institution of higher education that is separate from, but parallel and often connected to, the main framework of the French public university system. Grandes écoles are elite academic institutions that admit students through an extremely competitive process, and a significant proportion of their graduates occupy the highest levels of French society.[18][19][20] Similar to Ivy League schools in the United States, Oxbridge in the UK, and C9 League in China, graduation from a grande école is considered the prerequisite credential for any top government, administrative and corporate position in France.[21][22]
The degrees are accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles[23] and awarded by the Ministry of National Education (France).[24] Higher education business degrees in France are organized into three levels thus facilitating international mobility: the Licence / Bachelor's degrees, and the Master's and Doctorat degrees. The Bachelors and the Masters are organized in semesters: 6 for the Bachelors and 4 for the Masters.[25][26] Those levels of study include various "parcours" or paths based on UE (Unités d'enseignement or Modules), each worth a defined number of European credits (ECTS). A student accumulates those credits, which are generally transferable between paths. A Bachelors is awarded once 180 ECTS have been obtained (bac + 3); a Masters is awarded once 120 additional credits have been obtained (bac +5). The highly coveted PGE (Grand Ecole Program) ends with the degree of Master's in Management (MiM)[25][26][27]
Since 2004, Grenoble Ecole de Management is one of the 1% of management schools worldwide with the "Triple crown" accreditations. :[28] Its accreditations are regularly renewed, each for the maximum period of five years.
Scope of business school accreditation for the three main global accrediting bodies AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA
The school's DBA program is one of eleven doctoral programs in the World to be also accredited by AMBA.[29]
Programs
The Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) offers an academic program with: the Master in Management (Grande Ecole) taught in the most selective French business schools "écoles supérieures de commerce"; the Bachelor of International Business (BIB) ranked first in France (Le Parisien)[30] and various undergraduate certificates and graduates including : the
MBA, EMBA, MIB, and the 13+ Master's level programs MSc. All are delivered in English or French.[31]
The PhD program was launched in 2009, with four majors : marketing, finance, strategy and innovation management, and organisational sciences.[32]
GEM is ranked 7th in the world in the 2024 Financial Times Masters in Finance Ranking.
GEM is rated by the Financial Times, The Economist, Shanghai ranking and QS World University rankings as one of the top business schools in continental Europe ("Business administration", "Management", "Economics") and one of the leading business schools worldwide.[citation needed]
The school has been ranked second after HEC for sustainable & ecology development by Le Figaro, FT and Davos's Forum. Grenoble École de Management was recognized as one of[36] the observers of COP26.[37][38][39]
GEM Alumni is the association of former students (45,000+) and is represented in several countries (London, Dubai, Hong Kong, San Francisco ...) with local branches, and holds meetings.
The school's location (HQ) is multicultural with 130 nationalities represented.
Since 2009 GEM has hosted the annual "Grenoble Geopolitics Festival" to illustrate geopolitical impacts and alliances on economics and financial markets.
As of 2022[update] GEM had around 7,200 students and 600 teaching staff. [46]
^Monique de Saint-Martin, « Les recherches sociologiques sur les grandes écoles : de la reproduction à la recherche de justice », Éducation et sociétés 1/2008 (No. 21), p. 95-103. lire en ligne sur Cairn.info
