About Skema Business School

SKEMA Business School and ESC Lille have merged to create the first business school to train decision-makers for the “new world”

– a world that is more responsible, more ethical, more interconnected and more multipolar: the knowledge economy.

These considerations have resulted in shared observations on three major points:

– For our students, the future will increasingly depend on their ability to understand and operate within multicultural and international environments.

– the strength and association of both schools’ firm foundations, locally and nationally, are the guarantee of our ability to go on deploying our talents internationally.

– We will be stronger in building an ambitious and pioneering international project together than we would be alone.

Dean of SKEMA Business School

This is the first time in France that there has been a merger of two schools at this level or on this scale. The new structure will be greater than the sum of its parts.

For every one of you, this merger will mean: more choice, more opportunities, more professors, more international experience, more professional experience, more support, and more innovative and ambitious academic projects.

In concrete terms, from the beginning of the new academic year in september 2009, this synergy will give you access to an enhanced educational offering:

– Five campuses: the merged school will be resolutely international, having –from the outset– three campuses in France, one in china and one in morocco; and we are setting up campuses in the new economic world of tomorrow (usa, India, latin america).

– Improved teaching: the new school will foster more cutting-edge research into the management of innovative hi-tech projects, information and customer relationship management, globalization and economic trends.

– A richer learning experience: thanks to a larger choice of study paths (including certified specializations and twin areas of expertise), an expanded alumni network (20,000 former students throughout the world), a greater range of expertise (138 full-time professors and 600 visiting professors) and 133 international agreements in nearly 39 countries.

This exciting project will expand opportunities for all our stakeholders and will considerably enhance the value of your degree.

ONE VISION, ONE AMBITION

A leadership School, internationally set up, training decision-makers able to understand their environment, adapt and create sustainable performance.

Corporate environment is undergoing a profound change, creating new expectations and new profiles of decision-makers. The “new deal” being: knowledge management.

In the 21st century, companies’ new challenges will be responsibilities, intelligence, adaptability, innovation: the knowledge economy.

Knowledge management and information systems management, linked with the ability of the organizations to learn and develop unique resources, becomes within knowledge management, the core component of companies’ competitiveness. In order to bring out these competitive factors, companies have to master human, innovation and immaterial management. at the same time, they have to adopt a responsible strategy towards sustainable development. through global risk management, they have to manage in a socially and environmentally responsible way.

We want to implement these changes and to put them at the core of our students’ training and work research centres. our programs are a reflection of this vision and of the new needs of the world where students will be evolving.

Train managers prepared for a multicultural world.

We live in a global economy. Future training is based on openness towards other cultures. managers will have to be networked, mobile and at ease with other cultures and able to master local business practice.

Our international strategy consists of developing campuses abroad, where tomorrow’s business world is to be found. local set ups with students and internships provide the best and the most complete international experience. students now have access to 5 campuses located in several continents. In september 2010, our international offer will be widened with a new campus in the united states.

Campuses located in tomorrow’s business world

– Train independent entrepreneurs, the key players of tomorrow’s business world.

– Train ethical and responsible decisionmakers in line with new managerial and pedagogical methods. this merger represents the convergence of expertise: innovative project management, information, knowledge and customer relationship management, and globalization (merger, risk management…). already strongly developed by the two schools before the merger, it will be extended in order to enable students to enter the job market under the best conditions.

– Students who are free to choose their courses and pedagogical tracks.