Palmarès des Ecoles de Commerce du Parisien Etudiant differentiates two list – one for schools accessible after two years of preparation (post-prep Business Schools) and one for schools that you can join just after the baccalaureate (Post-baccalaureate Business Schools). 14 criteria have been selected to classify the management schools delivering the Master’s degree. Here are the elements retained for the calculation of each mark. In the event of a tie, the schools are listed in alphabetical order.

Prestige: Duration of the master’s degree program (1 to 5 years). Number of national and international accreditations.

Power: Group budget, school budget per student, and percentage of international students who pay tuition.

Development: Growth in the number of students, group budgets, Grande École Program budgets, and group members from 2021 to 2024. Change in the number of candidates between 2023 and 2024.

Social aspect: Share of calculated tuition exemptions and scholarships awarded, relative to training costs.

Infrastructure: Campus size per student and its growth from 2021 to 2024. Percentage of graduates who spent time at the school’s international campuses.

Attractiveness:

• For schools with preparatory classes: Sigem ranking (system for assigning preparatory class students to top business schools), volume of integrated preparatory class students, and AST 2 students (admission based on qualifications into the 2nd year of a top business school). Percentage of oral exam participants out of eligible candidates. Number of candidates for the 2024 competitive exams.
• For post-baccalaureate students: Number of integrated students and AST 2 students (from 2023 competitive exams). Number of candidates for the 2024 competitive exams.

Teaching Staff: Proportion of research faculty among permanent staff. Percentage of international faculty. Supervision ratio. Diversity of nationalities among teaching staff.

Pedagogy: Percentage of course hours taught by research faculty. Proportion of dual-degree programs with French institutions.

Professionalization: Minimum required internship duration. Percentage of apprentices and work-study students. Number of professional speakers per student per year.

Internationalization: Percentage of students who participated in mobility. Share of accredited agreements out of total agreements. Number of dual-degree programs offered. Percentage of students completing dual-degree programs abroad. Number of countries available for study abroad.

Research: Percentage of research articles published by faculty.

Salary: Employment rate of students before graduation, salary upon graduation.

Entrepreneurship: Number of companies incubated between 2021 and 2024 or created by graduates in the last three years. Percentage of graduates from an entrepreneurial background.

Digital Strategy: Digital strategy dynamism. Number of followers on Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, and LinkedIn. Percentage of graduates employed in the digital sector.

Educational Innovation: Assessed by the editorial team of Le Parisien Étudiant based on the quality of each school’s work in educational and development projects.