| Audencia Nantes School of Management | |
|---|---|
| Motto | Donner du sens au management |
| Motto in English | Making sense of management |
| Established | 1900 |
| Type | Grande École |
| President | Gérard Estival |
| Academic staff | 91 |
| Students | 3000 |
| Location | Nantes, France |
| Campus | Urban |
| Former names | ESCN |
| Website | http://www.audencia.com/ |
Audencia Nantes School of Management is one of the foremost business schools in France, accredited by EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System), AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) and AMBA (Association of MBAs). The school welcomes 3000 students from almost 50 countries on its 16 programmes: bachelors, international masters, specialised masters, MBAs and executive education courses.
Audencia is consistently ranked in the top six business schools in France and among the best in Europe. Its Master in Management was rated 18th in Europe by the Financial Times (September 2010). The Euro MBA, proposed by a European consortium including Audencia Nantes, has been ranked fourth best distance-learning programme in the world. The programme was second in the world for the quality of its students and third for the standard of its distance-learning elements (The Economist, March 2010).
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Founded in 1900 as the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Nantes, the school occupied the building today home to the city’s natural history museum until 1970. It then moved into a purpose-built campus of 23,000 m² to the north of the city centre opposite Nantes University.
In 2000, the school changed its name to Audencia Nantes School of Management. The name "Audencia" is a blend of two words: audientia, which means "listening," and audacia or "boldness."
Audencia is a non-profit making association supervised by the city of Nantes, the local council and the chamber of commerce and industry. As of July 1, 2010, the school assumed management responsibility of Sciencescom (the communication and media school) and the Ecole Atlantique de Commerce so offering a programme portfolio from Bachelor to PhD level.
Audencia proposes 17 programmes in addition to its executive education activity:
Audencia Nantes is accredited by EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System), AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) and AMBA (Association of MBAs).
The school’s identity is defined in its mission:
“Audencia Nantes provides education and personal development guidance to students who will assert themselves as responsible, highly-skilled managers and entrepreneurs having a global awareness and a broad culture who are attentive to giving meaning to their decisions and actions. To do so, Audencia produces and diffuses management knowledge useful for academic disciplines, firms, and the classroom.
By recruiting men and women from around the world, chosen for their diversity and potential, and by making a commitment to educating leaders sharing its values, Audencia accompanies firms in their development.
Thus, Audencia contributes to expanding the influence of the territory that fosters its identity.”
In 2004, Audencia became the first French management school to adhere to the Global Compact. This United Nations initiative brings together companies, the world of work and society in general in a common goal of ten principles concerning human rights, working conditions and the natural environment.
The school signed its first agreement with a non-French academic institution in 1972. Today, Audencia has more than 110 international partners throughout the world.