Institut d'Administration des Entreprises

IAE - University Schools of Management
Institut d'Administration des entreprises
Motto	Everywhere in France, there is an IAE to suit your needs of training and research in management
Established	1955 (1955)
Type	University Schools of Management
Academic staff	1,200 lecturers and 6,600 professionals
Students	45,000 students
Location	32 Cities, France
Founder	Gaston Berger  France
Website	http://www.iae-france.fr/en/

All rights reserved to IAE FRANCE

The French IAE are part of the French universities, except for the IAE of Paris which has a special status. They are academically selective, socially inclusive and very affordable Graduate School of Management within the French Public Research Universities. The model of the IAE is inspired of the Anglo-Saxon Business Schools.

There are currently 34 IAE's located all over of the French territory, whom 32 are part of the IAE FRANCE network where the oldest members are the first actors in the development of management in France. This is the primary French network of education in management which gather around 45,000 students and 425,000 alumni.

IAE's History

The origin of IAE goes back to the 1950s. At the time, in France, there wasn't any degrees in management availables in universities. In United States, by contrast, economic growth is powered by batches of engineers and managers from the best business schools attached to universities. In the midst of reconstruction, France have a lack of managers while the Thirty Glorious begin.

In 1955, Gaston Berger, Director of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, created the Institute of Business Administration (IAE) in American style, to provide academic knowledge in management that complements the professional know-how and gather University and Business world. In the beginning, IAE were schools with a single diploma, “CAAE” - Certificate in Business Administration with a pioneering position on the "dual skills". This degree was designed to give management skills to engineers and graduate students of the faculties of Law, Letters and Sciences. Recognized degree, designed to be followed on a year, during the evening, is a “MBA à la française”. The teaching is based on the case method, innovative approach at the time. It has been for nearly 20 years, the common degree of most IAE in becoming “DESS CAAE” and continues today through the “MAE” (Master of Business Administration).

Status

Most of the IAE have a status of « institutes and schools belonging to Universities », just like the University Institutes of Technology as an example. Some are part of Faculties such as Faculty of Economics and Management.

The IAE Paris is the only independent IAE, it's a public establishment of an administrative nature linked to the Pantheon-Sorbonne University.

The EM Strasbourg Business School is the result of the merger between the IAE of Strasbourg and the local business school, It's part of the University of Strasbourg^[1] · ^[2] · ^[3] · .^[4]

The Réseau is related to 32 Laboratory of research including 10 Joint Research Units associated with the CNRS.

Admission in IAE

The admission in IAE require the test of the Score IAE-MESSAGE,^[5] an application file and an admission interview. Some IAE as among others Paris, Grenoble, Lille and Aix can also ask for the resultats of other tests such as the TAGE-MAGE,^[6] the GMATT,^[7] the GRE,^[8] the TOEIC^[9] and the TOEFL.^[10]

An alternative to private Business Schools

According to the Hetzel report,^[11] IAE show the best results of all universities in professionalization. Degrees of IAE are internationally recognized by the LMD (Bachelor, Master and PhD,) reform and its MBAs.

In 2012, Olivier Rollot, in Le Monde stressed the excellence of such Public Graduate School of Management being a real alternative to private Business Schools^[12]

Monday, 28 January 2013, the French channel France 2 did a report about the Business Schools which had been pointed out by the Court of Auditor and talked of the IAE as an alternative to Business Schools, providing the same quality of education for a very lower cost. Emmanuel Davidenkoff, chief editor of l'Etudiant (media specialized in Education) conclude this reporting saying that "Between a good business school and a good IAE, there is about the thickness of a sheet of waxed paper.".^[13]

List of IAE in France

References

External links

• Official Website