| EMLYON Business School | |
|---|---|
| Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Lyon | |
| Motto | Educating entrepreneurs for the world |
| Established | 1872 |
| Dean | Patrick Molle |
| Students | 2700 |
| Location | Lyon, France |
| Campus | Shanghai |
| Website | http://www.em-lyon.com |
EMLYON Business School (formerly École de management de Lyon) is a French business school. It was founded in Lyon (France) in 1872 by the local business community, and is affiliated to the Lyon Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It has triple accreditation: EQUIS by the EFMD, AMBA, and the AACSB. It belongs to the top 50 World Business Schools according to the New York Times and to the top 5 Masters in Management according to the Financial Times.
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EMLYON has three campuses. Its main campus is based in Lyon, completed since September 2007 by the new campus based in Geneva, centered on Luxury Management and Marketing. This new campus should offer within the coming years programs in private banking and international organizations[1]
For many years EMLYON has developed partnerships with Chinese universities such as Fudan University[2] or CEIBS[3] in Shangai. A "Master en Administration des Affaires de Canton"(Master of Business Administration) in collaboration with the "Université Lyon-III"(Jean Moulin University Lyon 3)and the Lingnan College (part of the Sun Yat-sen University)was launched in 1997. It is a fully French speaking Master, which has been awarded in 2004 by the Chinese Ministry of Education.[4] EMLYON has opened an office in Shangai in 2000 and a new campus in September 2007[5] inside the campus of the East China Normal University.
Instruction at EMLYON focuses on three areas: Internationalisation (a European identity for a global mission), Entrepreneurship (for the development of entrepreneurship and business creation), and Technology (use of new technologies to advance learning in all programmes).
Programmes of EMLYON include the following:
| School rankings (overall) | |
|---|---|
| Worldwide MBA | |
| CNN Expansion[6] | 44 |
| Economist[7] | 43 |
| Financial Times[8] | 100 |
In overall global rankings for 2011, EMLYON was ranked #44 in CNN Expansion,[6] #43 by The Economist,[7] and #100 by Financial Times.[8]
Locally, SIGEM, the state institution responsible for grande ecole testing, has consistently rated it 4th among French "classe preparatoire" business schools. In 2009, the school was ranked second in France, and in the top 10 in Europe, by both the Financial Times[9] and The Economist.[10] Also in 2010, the Financial Times ranked EMLYON 5th in Europe for its Master of Science in Management program.
EMLYON Business School hosts the student association called the Petit Paumé, which is the second biggest student association of France in terms of financial means. EMLYON Business School also hosts the event called "Le défi de Bacchus" which is the bigger competition of wine-testing in Europe between students and professionals. A competition well known for the degustation of French "grands crus" as Château d'Yquem and for the restaurants where this event takes place which are always Michelin starred (Michelin is the European Zagat).
