ESSEC FULL-TIME MBA Profiles

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PROGRAM BASICS
ESSEC MBA

ESSEC Business School Paris-Singapore

Avenue Bernard Hirsch BP 50 105
Cergy-Pontoise Cedex FRANCE ,

Program Web site:
http://www.essec.edu/essecmba

  Status:
Private Institution

Program e-mail address:
essecinfo@essec.fr

Explain:
Private Institution

Graduate business school is accredited by:

AACSB International

European Foundation for Mgt. Development (EFMD)

EQUIS

Other

French Ministry of Higher Education

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SCHOOL COMMENTS
School Comments:
ESSEC MBA offers a flexible curriculum structure permitting students to combine academic courses with international and professional experiences. The ESSEC integrative philosophy is an asset for students who wish to take their careers further and for those who are just beginning theirs. At ESSEC, each student learns what it takes to be become a responsible leader through an on-going skills assessment with the help of a personal coach. The ESSEC MBA innovative approach provides students with the necessary tools and opportunities to excel in their careers in a highly competitive environment and contribute to the world in which they live.

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Graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:

Africa: 1  %
Asia: 1  %
Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia: 1  %
Latin America and the Caribbean: 1  %
Middle East: 1  %
North America: 2  %
Oceana: 1  %
Western Europe: 92  %

Within North America, graduates who accepted full-time jobs in the following regions:
N/A

Companies that recruited MBAs for internships on campus in 2008-09:
2738

Companies that posted internships for MBAs on school job boards in 2008-09:
317

Top recruiting organizations for internships, most recent academic year:

Societe Generale   58
BNP Paribas   42
Ernst & Young   18
HSBC   18
Calyon   15
Natixis   14
Euro RSCG   14
L'Oréal   13
Total   10
Deloitte   10
Crédit Agricole   10
Hermes   10
Havas   9
Areva   8
Accor   8

Internships awarded that are paid:
100  %

Weekly internship compensation:

        Mean: $ 436
        Median: N/A

Average internship length in weeks:
26

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Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

Consulting: 27  %
Finance/Accounting: 30  %
General Management: 8  %
Human Resources: 1  %
Marketing/Sales: 22  %
Management Information Systems (MIS): 2  %
Operations/Logistics: 5  %
Other: 5  %

Graduating students who accepted jobs in the following industries:

Government: 2  %
Consulting: 20  %
Consumer Products: 11  %
Financial Services: 30  %
Manufacturing: 7  %
Media/Entertainment: 8  %
Petroleum/Energy: 1  %
Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology/Health Care: 5  %
Technology: 2  %
Other: 14  %

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Top recruiting organizations most recent academic year:

Ernst & Young   8
Societe General   8
BNP Paribas   6
Gameloft   4
KPMG   4
PriceWaterHouse Coopers   4
Boston Consulting Group   4
Accenture   3
Bain & Company   3
Bouygues Telecom   3
McKinsey   3
Natixis   3
Pepsico   3
Procter & Gamble   3
Reckitt Benckiser   3

Job-accepting graduates who received a signing bonus:
45  %

Base salary, signing bonuses and other compensation for most recent employed graduates:

Mean base salary: $  61,575
Mean signing bonus: $  10,861
Mean other guaranteed compensation: $  2,910

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CAREER SERVICES
Graduates seeking full-time professional MBA employment: 91  %
Graduates not seeking employment: 9  %

Annual job-searching trips that the school coordinates or participates in:

Destination: Singapore
Month: January-July
Amount Paid By School: None

Primary source of job offer:

School-facilitated activities: 44  %
Graduate-facilitated activities: 5  %

Companies that recruited second-year MBAs on campus in 2008-09:
200

Job Offers for 2009 graduates:

Received first job offer by graduation: 60  %
Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 34  %
Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 6  %

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B-SCHOOL ALUMNI
Living MBA alumni:
18,200

Active MBA alumni clubs:
109

Countries in which MBA clubs exist:
48

Living MBA alumni who gave in past year:
7  %

Mean gift from MBA alumni:
$  1,650

  Did school receive an individual gift in excess of $10 million in the past academic year?
No

Business school endowment
$  2,944,717

  Does the main university offer career placement services for alumni?
Yes

  Does the main university have an alumni networking Web site?
Yes

University alumni networking site:
http://essecnet.alumni.essec.fr

  Does the B-School have an alumni networking Web site?
Yes

Business school alumni networking site:
http://essecnet.alumni.essec.fr

  Do current MBA students have access to an alumni database?
Yes

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TECHNOLOGY
Technology improvements in the last three academic years:
Development of video-conferencing facilities for both teaching and mentoring, increased development of electronic collections and elearning resources and tools. New partnerships with Google to develop myESSEC Apps, a full set of collaborative tools enhancing collaboration, distance learning and team building.

Amount spent:
$  3,500,000

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TEACHING/ACADEMICS
Teaching methods used:

Case Study: 20  %
Distance Learning: 5  %
Experiential Learning: 20  %
Lectures: 30  %
Simulations: 10  %
Team Projects: 15  %

Requirements for graduation:

Students are required to complete international experience

Students must have attended a minimum number of classes

Students are required to be fluent in more than one language by graduation

Students must have earned a pre-determined GPA/letter grade average

Other:

Additional graduation requirements:
Students must have a minimum of 18 months of professional experience by the time of graduation.

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STUDENT LIFE
Professional clubs available to full-time MBA students:

Business Law

Consulting

Corporate Social Responsibility/NetImpact

Entrepreneurship

Environmental

Finance

Marketing

Media & Entertainment

Nonprofit

VC/ Private Equity

Other

Networking clubs available to full-time MBA students:

International Club

Volunteer

Other