For the Financial Times , the best business schools are ... in France. A classification that is warm to the heart and can not be accused of being biased since it emanates from the bible of business in Britain. According to the British newspaper, the best business school in Europe is no longer the London Business School in London, but HEC in Paris.
France dominates the ranking
In this ranking of the Financial Times , French schools hit hard. In the top 20, there are six, barely a German. We find the Essec Cergy-Pointoise, Escp in Paris, Edhec in Lille or the School of Management in Lyon. And if you go down in the 50 best, it's a festival of French business schools. We find: Grenoble, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes, Nice, Reims or Rouen.
So how to explain this place of choice of French institutions? The Financial Times notes that this goes against everything that is said about the malaise of education in France and the image of a country that would be restive to capitalism. The explanation is simple. In France, business schools are not in the hands of the National Education, but Chambers of Commerce. So companies. Our business schools are totally focused on the world of work, the international, with courses, internships abroad, courses in English. At the exit, you are immediately employable, everywhere.
From business schools to apprenticeships
A recipe that has inspired the government for its great reform of learning. In fact, apprenticeship centers have been entrusted to companies and no longer to regions. And that changes everything. Apprenticeship is no longer a siding for students failing school but the road to win a CDI well paid, in a company that works. Result: solid cardboard. France today has 458,000 apprentices, an absolute record and a figure up 64% compared to 2015.