ESSEC Business School Forms Partnership with École Centrale Paris: MBA News

ESSEC Business School in France has negotiated an alliance with the engineering university École Centrale Paris in order to bring about future pioneers of digital engineering and management. The partnership will give both schools joint access to the other’s campus resources, as well as introducing a shared curriculum and joint research.

École Centrale Paris is a university belonging to the Paris-Saclay Idex, an initiative of excellence set up by the former French president Nicholas Sarkozy in order to promote world-leading research and teaching in France’s higher education institutions. The school, home to 2,200 students, specializes in research within energy, mechanics, applied mathematics, applied physics, and information technology as well as industrial engineering, management and economics.

The alliance is a strategic one for ESSEC Business School, aiming to give tomorrow’s business graduates an insight into managing in a digital world. Jean-Michel Blanquer, dean of the Cergy-Pontoise campus of ESSEC Business School tells the Financial Times that as a business school rooted in “pioneering spirit”, “the idea is to have the digital managers of the future.”