Misplaced Pages

Excelia Group

Article snapshot taken from[REDACTED] with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
French private institution of higher education
This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments, a violation of Misplaced Pages's terms of use. It may require cleanup to comply with Misplaced Pages's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. (January 2025)
Excelia
ex. Sup de Co La Rochelle
TypePrivate university
Established1988 (1988)
Budget30 million Euros
ChairmanStephane Cohat
DeanBruno Neil
Academic staff500
Students5000
LocationLa Rochelle, Tours, Orléans, Paris, France
AffiliationsAACSB (accredited); AMBA (accredited) ; EQUIS (accredited) ; Conférence des Grandes Écoles
Websitewww.excelia-group.fr

Excelia is a French Grande Ecole, a specialized top-level institution of higher education. Created in 1988 as Groupe Sup de Co La Rochelle, it is a private non-profit organisation linked to the La Rochelle Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) and a member of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles. Excelia Group's Business School belongs to the approximately 100 business schools worldwide (corresponding to roughly 1% of all business school) holding a triple accreditation.

History

Founded in 1988, the then Groupe Sup de Co La Rochelle has been a permanent member of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles since 2005.

In September 2016, Excelia acquired a majority share of the ESCEM Business School in Tours and Orléans which was then fully integrated into Excelia.

Excelia has now 5,000 students and nearly 40,000 Alumni.

Schools

Excelia is organised into five schools:

  • Excelia Business School
  • Excelia Tourism School
  • Excelia Digital School
  • Excelia Academy
  • Excelia Executive Education

The historical campus of Excelia Group is located in La Rochelle and 3 additional campuses are in Tours, Orléans, and Paris.

Excelia programs are also offered in Niort, Rochefort, Angoulême and Cognac.

2 overseas associate campuses are located in New Rochelle, NY and Beijing.

Accreditation

Excelia is accredited by The French Ministry of Education (French: Le Ministère de L'éducation Nationale).

Excelia Business School is EFMD-EPAS accredited since 2011 and AACSB accredited since 2013. As of summer 2020, Excelia Business School is bearer of the triple crown, thus joining the league of roughly 100 triple-accredited business schools worldwide.

Excelia Tourism School holds the TedQual accreditation, delivered by the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), for all its programs in Tourism Management. The school is the first and only French institution of higher education to obtain TedQual accreditation for both Bachelor and MBA programs.

Rankings

In 2024, the Financial Times ranked its Masters in Management program 30th in the world. Excelia Business School (former La Rochelle Business School) entered the Financial Times ranking of European Business Schools at ranks between 76 (2014) and 52 (2024).

References

  1. LA ROCHELLE BUSINESS SCHOOL - EXCELIA GROUP
  2. "Triple accredited business schools (AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS)". MBA Today.
  3. "FNEGE website". fnege.com. Archived from the original on 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  4. "L'ESCEM devient Excelia". Studyrama Grandes Ecoles (in French). 2020-12-03. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
  5. figaro, le. "Le groupe Excelia rachète l'Escem". Le Figaro Etudiant (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-17.
  6. Overview of Excelia Group's schools
  7. Article on Excelia Group's new corporate identity and locations (in French language)
  8. Map of Excelia Group's campuses and offices (in French language)
  9. "La Rochelle Business School Accreditations" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2016-07-22.
  10. "La Rochelle Business School Accreditations". Archived from the original on 2016-07-19. Retrieved 2016-07-22.
  11. "La Rochelle BS obtient l'accréditation AMBA et la triple couronne". Retrieved 2021-09-19.
  12. "Masters in Management 2024 - Business school rankings from the Financial Times - FT.com". rankings.ft.com. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  13. "European Business School Rankings 2015". Archived from the original on 2019-11-02. Retrieved 2016-07-22.
  14. European Business School Ranking 2024

External links

Conférence des Grandes écoles
Engineering grandes écoles
Business schools
Others
Universities abroad
Accredited degrees
Union of Independent Grandes Écoles
Business schools
Engineering Grandes écoles
Others
icon Schools portal

Categories:
Excelia Group Add topic