France Business School

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France Business School
Logo France Business School.jpg
MottoNew World. New School.
Type Grande École
Established2012
President Isidore Fartaria
CEO Patrick Molle
Academic staff
170
Students7.000
Location,
France (also in China)
Website www.france-bs.com/en/

France Business School (fBS) was a French Business School, founded in 2012 by a meanwhile cancelled merger of four French business schools:

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History

fBS was created in a period of merger between French Business Schools in order to achieve "critical size" at an international level. [1] It was officially announced on 22 May 2012. [2] fBS was finally announced as the merger of 4 pre-existing schools: l'École supérieure de commerce et de management (ESCEM) in Tours-Poitiers-Orléans, l'École supérieure de commerce d'Amiens (ESC Amiens), l'École supérieure de commerce de Clermont (ESC Clermont), l'École supérieure de commerce Bretagne Brest (ESC Bretagne Brest).

Type of recruitment

At its inception, fBS announced its withdrawal from the existing admission testing procedures (BCE, Ecricome) and introduced a different admission procedure from the traditional competitive entrance examination system by organising recruitment days called Talent Days [3] in about 20 French cities.

This recruitment targets different profiles:

Location

Other sites have joined the campuses of the founding fBS schools (Amiens, Brest, Clermont-Ferrand, Orléans, Poitiers, Tours):

Notes and references

  1. Christine Lagoutte, « À quoi servent les fusions entre business schools ? », Le Figaro étudiant, 22 mai 2012 http://etudiant.lefigaro.fr/orientation/actus-et-conseils/detail/article/a-quoi-servent-les-fusions-entre-business-schools-138 Archived 2013-11-05 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "France Business School : un projet ambitieux semé d'embûches - Educpros". letudiant.fr. 22 May 2012. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
  3. "Les Talent Days » FBS Talent Day". france-bs.com. Retrieved 2014-03-07.