Audencia Business School Explained

Audencia Business School
Motto:"Never stop daring"
Established:[1]
Type:Grande école de commerce et de management
(Private research university Business school)
President:Laurent Métral
Dean:Christophe Germain
City:Nantes[2]
Former Names:Audencia Nantes École de Management
Faculty:140[3]
98% PhD.;[4]
44% female;
66% international
Students:6,100
Language:English and French
Academic Affiliations:Conférence des grandes écoles,
École Centrale de Nantes
Accreditation:Triple accreditation


AACSB


AMBA

Audencia Business School is a French grande école and business school located in Nantes, France. The school enrolls 6,100 students from almost 90 countries on bachelors, international masters, specialised masters, MBAs, doctorates and executive education courses.

It is one of the only 0.5% of business schools in the world accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA), European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS), and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).[5] Audencia is also BSIS labelled.

History

Audencia was founded in 1900 as the École Supérieure de Commerce de Nantes.[6] Until 1970, the school occupied the building which is today home to the city's natural history museum. It then moved into a purpose-built campus of 23,000 m2 to the north of the city centre opposite Nantes University.

In 2000, the school changed its name to Audencia Nantes School of Management.[6] The name "Audencia" is a blend of two words: audientia, which means "listening," and audacia or "boldness."

Since 2004, the school has been associated with the Global Compact, a United Nations initiative that brings together firms, the business world and the civil society united on ten universal principles relative to human rights, working conditions and the environment.

In 2015, the school was reaccredited by the three global accreditations (AMBA, EQUIS, AACSB) for the maximum period of five years.

In 2016, the school changed its name to Audencia Business School which includes the bachelor and masters programmes of former schools SciencesCom and the Ecole Atlantique de Commerce.

In 2017, the school adopted a new legal status and became a public-private partnership (École consulaire or EESC) largely financed by the public Chambers of Commerce in Nantes St-Nazaire.[1]

Grande école degrees

Audencia is an École consulaire (EESC), a private institution of higher education funded and supervised by the city of Nantes, the local council and the chamber of commerce and industry.[1] As a member of the Conférence des grandes écoles, Audencia has the status of a Grande école.[7] Grandes écoles are elite French institutions of higher education that are separate from, but parallel and often connected to, the main framework of the French public university system. Grandes écoles admit students through an extremely competitive process, and a significant proportion of their graduates occupy the highest levels of French society.[8] [9] [10] Similar to Ivy League schools in the United States, Russell Group 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.[11] [12]

The degrees are accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles[13] and awarded by the Ministry of National Education (France).[14] 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.[15] [16] 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)[15] [16] [17]

Audencia Business School is also accredited by EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System), AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) and Association of MBAs (AMBA).[18] It is among the top 1% business school in the world to have the triple crown (Triple accreditation). Of the 13,670 schools offering business degree programs worldwide, only 89 have triple accreditation as of May 2018.

Academic programmes

Bachelor

Master

Doctorate

Non-degree

Rankings

In 2021, Audencia was ranked 7th business schools in France by L'Étudiant.[20] In 2022, the Financial Times ranked its Masters in Management program 47th in the world.[21] Audencia's Full-Time MBA was ranked 58th in the MBA ranking 2018 by CNN Expansion and 90th in the world by The Economist (October 2018).[22]

Partnerships

Within France, Audencia entered an alliance with the École Centrale de Nantes and the Nantes École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture (ensa Nantes) to promote engineering, management, architecture and creativity to enrich the teaching, research, corporate relations and international scope of all three schools.The school signed its first agreement with a non-French academic institution in 1972.[23] Today, Audencia has more than 230 international partners. While the earliest accords concerned North American business schools (especially those in the USA), the school now has partnerships throughout the world.[24]

Alumni

Audencia Business School has several alumni as follows:

Controversy

In 2022 several articles in the Press appeared indicating an organisation of Toxic and Sexist Management leading up to several people leaving their functions, first the Associate Dean, and finally the Dean, Christophe Germain. At least 47 testimonies from the inside reported on stress, press, manipulation, burn-outs high sick-leaves and turn-over of employees, non-application of workers rights.[28] [29] [30] [31]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: History: Audencia . Audencia . 24 January 2022.
  2. Audencia Business School. Letudiant. 26 May 2020 .
  3. Web site: Home . Audencia . 24 January 2022.
  4. Web site: Audencia . . 24 January 2022.
  5. Business School Rankings Audencia . dead . FT . https://web.archive.org/web/20151225061634/http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/audencia . 2015-12-25 . 2014-10-08.
  6. Audencia Business School. Studyrama.
  7. Web site: AUDENCIA GROUP - AUDENCIA BUSINESS SCHOOL - Écoles - Conférence des Grandes Ecoles. cge.asso.fr. 2016-06-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20160325094333/http://www.cge.asso.fr/nos-membres/ecoles/6-audencia-business-school. 2016-03-25. dead.
  8. Web site: France's educational elite. 17 November 2003. 5 February 2019. Daily Telegraph.
  9. Book: Pierre Bourdieu. The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power. 1998. Stanford UP. 133–35. 9780804733465.
  10. https://www.mbacrystalball.com/blog/2019/04/19/grand-ecoles-france/, What are Grandes Ecoles Institutes in France?
  11. [Monique de Saint-Martin]
  12. Valérie Albouy et Thomas Wanecq, Les inégalités sociales d’accès aux grandes écoles (2003), INSEE
  13. Web site: Conférence des grandes écoles: commission Accréditation . Conférence des grandes écoles . 21 January 2022.
  14. Web site: Etablissements dispensant des formations supérieures initiales diplômantes conférant le grade de master . Ministry of France, Higher Education . Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'Innovation . 16 January 2022.
  15. Web site: La Licence. fr. enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr . 2016-07-19 . 2016-07-19.
  16. News: Le Master. fr. enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr . 2016-07-19 . 2016-07-19.
  17. Ben-David, Joseph and Philip G. Altbach. eds. Centers of Learning: Britain, France, Germany, United States (2nd ed. 2017).
  18. Web site: The Triple Accredited Business Schools (AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS). MBA Today.
  19. Web site: 03.03.04.01_presentation_audencia.pdf . www.sciencespo-lille.eu.
  20. Web site: Classement SIGEM 2021 : les écoles de commerce toujours plébiscitées par les élèves de prépa . 2024-06-22 . L'Etudiant . fr.
  21. Web site: Masters in Management 2022 - Business school rankings from the Financial Times - FT.com . 15 September 2022 . rankings.ft.com.
  22. News: 2016 MBA & Business School Rankings Which MBA? . 2016-10-17 . The Economist.
  23. Audencia Saciol. https://archive.today/20141008125909/http://www.saciol.com/france/finance-banking/audencia. dead. October 8, 2014. Saciol.
  24. Web site: International scope . Audencia . 24 January 2022.
  25. Web site: International Collaboration .
  26. Web site: ABA Technology Appoints Othman el Ferdaous Vice President .
  27. Web site: Écoles de commerce et Politique #4 - Interview de Jean Arthuis . 4 February 2019 .
  28. News: 2022-10-06 . Audencia, une école de management piégée par ses contradictions . 2023-10-13 . Le Monde.fr . fr.
  29. Web site: 2022-10-15 . Management "toxique" et "sexiste", le malaise à Audencia Nantes . 2023-10-13 . France 3 Pays de la Loire . fr-FR.
  30. Web site: info . A. E. F. . 2022-11-02 . Le directeur général adjoint d'Audencia démissionne . 2023-10-13 . Challenges . fr.
  31. Web site: Dumas . Thibault . 2023-07-20 . Fragilisé, le directeur général d'Audencia lâche son poste . 2023-10-13 . www.mediacites.fr . fr-FR.

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