Excelia Group
Excelia Group is a French university-level institution of higher education. Created in 1988 as Groupe Sup de Co La Rochelle, it is a non-profit organisation linked to the La Rochelle Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) and a member of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles.[1]
ex. Sup de Co La Rochelle | |
Type | Private university |
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Established | 1988 |
Budget | 30 million Euros |
Chairman | Stephane Cohat |
Dean | Bruno Neil |
Academic staff | 275 |
Students | 4550 |
Location | , |
Affiliations | AACSB (accredited); AMBA (accredited) ; EQUIS (accredited) ; Conférence des Grandes Écoles |
Website | www |
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 Group acquired a majority share of the ESCEM Business School in Tours and Orléans[2] which was then fully integrated into Excelia.[3]
Excelia has now 4,550 students and nearly 40,000 Alumni as of December 2020.[4]
Schools
Excelia Group is organised into five schools:[5]
- Excelia Business School
- Excelia Tourism and Hospitality School
- Excelia Digital School
- Excelia Academy
- Excelia Executive Education
The historical campus of Excelia Group is located in La Rochelle and 2 additional campuses are in Tours and Orléans.
Excelia programs are also offered in Niort, Rochefort, Angoulême and Cognac.
2 overseas associate campuses are located in New Rochelle, NY and Beijing.[6][7]
Accreditation
Excelia Group is accredited by The French Ministry of Education (French: Le Ministère de L'éducation Nationale).
La Rochelle Business School is EFMD-EPAS accredited since 2011[8] and AACSB accredited since 2013.[9]
La Rochelle Tourism and Hospitality 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
Excelia Group La Rochelle Business School entered the Financial Times ranking of European Business Schools at rank 76 in 2014 and climbed to rank 71 in 2015.[10] In the FT 2020 rankings, LRBS ranks 48th worldwide for its Master in Management.[11]
Programs
Master Program (Programme Grande Ecole)
- ESC Master in Management, the Programme Grande Ecole, is leading to a Master in Management. Each student spends 6 to 12 intensive months in another university of the world.
Bachelor Programs
- Bachelor in International Business: 4-year program after French Baccalaureate or International Baccalaureate, including 2 years of studies abroad with possibility of double degrees (English and French tracks are available).
- Bachelor Business : 3-year general business program after French Baccalaureate or International Baccalaureate, giving access to a various list of positions in French or foreign companies (taught in French, no English track).
- Bachelor in Management of Tourism : 3-year specialised program in tourism after French Baccalaureate or International Baccalaureate, very popular for many major tourism companies (English and French tracks are available).
- The School also offers since 1999 two ranges of MBA Programs :
Specialized MBAs
- Environment and Sustainable Development Strategy
- Internationalisation and Audit/Consulting
- Bank and Customer Relationship Management
- Premium and Luxury Products Marketing
- International Corporate Strategy
- Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
- Event Management Organisation
- Applied Industrial Management
MBA Tourism and Services
- Touristic Destination Management
- Hospitality Management
- Sport Management
Excelia Digital School
- BA in Web Design and Graphic Communication====
- MSc in Digital Communications and Influence Strategy====
Partner Universities (Selection)
Excelia has partnerships or dual-degree programs with more than 170 universities.
- Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria
- Northern Arizona University, USA
- University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic
- University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- University of Bamberg, Germany
- Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
- National University of Ireland, Ireland
- University of Limerick, Ireland
- LUISS Business School, Italy
- Oxford Brookes University, UK
- Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
- Warsaw School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Poland
- Lomonosov State University Moscow, Russia
- University of Granada, Spain
- Linnaeus University, Sweden
- Plymouth University, UK
- Beihang University, China (partner campus)
- Newcastle University, UK
Alumni Network
The student alumni network consists of more than 40,000 professionals currently working in more than 95 countries.
References
- LA ROCHELLE BUSINESS SCHOOL - EXCELIA GROUP
- "FNEGE website". fnege.com. Archived from the original on 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
- "L'ESCEM devient Excelia". Studyrama Grandes Ecoles (in French). 2020-12-03. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
- figaro, le. "Le groupe Excelia rachète l'Escem". Le Figaro Etudiant (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-17.
- Overview of Excelia Group's schools
- Article on Excelia Group's new corporate identity and locations (in French language)
- Map of Excelia Group's campuses and offices (in French language)
- "La Rochelle Business School Accreditations" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2016-07-22.
- "La Rochelle Business School Accreditations". Archived from the original on 2016-07-19. Retrieved 2016-07-22.
- European Business School Rankings 2015
- "Masters in Management 2020". Retrieved 2020-10-03.