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CLASS OFFERINGS
Average number of students in a full-time MBA core class:
40

Average number of students in a full-time MBA elective class:
30

Elective courses available to full-time MBA students:
200

Electives that have been added to the full-time program since June 30, 2009:
Sports Personal Development & Management
Create a Social Business Plan
International Finance Markets
Asian Economies
Quantitative Risk Management

Year of last major change or significant overhaul to the core curriculum:
2008

Concentrations and specializations offered to full-time MBA students:

Accounting

Actuarial Science

Corporate Social Responsibility

Economics

Entrepreneurship

Finance

General Management

Health Care Administration

Hotel Administration

Human Resource Management

International Business

Management Information Systems

Marketing

Media/Entertainment

Operations Management

Organizational Behavior

Public Administration

Public Policy

Real Estate

Sports Business

Statistics and Operations Research

Strategy

Supply Chain Management

Other: Luxury Brand Management

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Joint-degree programs offered to full-time MBAs:

MBA/JD (Law)

MBA/MD (Medicine)

  Does the school offer an accelerated full-time MBA program?
No

The school believes that its leading areas of study for full-time MBA students are:

Entrepreneurship

Finance

General Management

Marketing

Strategy

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FACULTY
Faculty employed by the B-school:
410

Full-time faculty:

Tenured: 108
Non-Tenured: 27

Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

Tenured: 18
Non-Tenured: 257

Women on Faculty:

Tenured: 23
Non-Tenured: 12

Minority Faculty:
N/A

International Faculty:

Tenured: 38
Non-Tenured: 19

Faculty with PhDs:

Tenured: 97
Non-Tenured: 27

Faculty who are also members of company boards of directors or advisors:
20  %

Faculty who have owned their own business:
21  %

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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  %