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Former name | Merger of Reims Management School (1928) and Rouen Business School (1871) |
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| Motto | Be passionate. Shape the future |
| Type | Grande école de commerce et de management (PrivateresearchuniversityBusiness school) |
| Established | 2013; 13 years ago (2013) |
| Accreditation | Triple accreditation: AACSB;[1] AMBA;[1] EQUIS[1] |
Academic affiliations | Conférence des grandes écoles,[1] |
| Budget | 85 million euros |
| President | Michel-Edouard Leclerc |
| Dean | Delphine Manceau |
Academic staff | 185 permanent faculty members[1] 100% PhD.;[2] 44% female;[2] 72% international |
| Students | 9,000[1] 25% international[1] |
| Location | Reims, Rouen, Paris ,France |
| Language | English-only & French-only instruction |
| Website | www.neoma-bs.com (engl.) |
NEOMA Business School is a French business and management school founded in 2013, following the merger ofReims Management School (founded in 1928) andRouen Business School (founded in 1871) for economic and strategic reasons.
NEOMA BS offers a wide range of educational programmes covering all fields of management such as bachelor's degrees,Master in Management,MBA andEMBA programs, specializedMSc programs, aPhD in management, and various executive education offerings. The school is consistently rated by theFinancial Times, The Economist and Challenges as one of the top business schools in continental Europe and one of the leading business schools worldwide.
NEOMA is part of theConférence des Grandes écoles, and is one of the only 1% of business schools in the world holding theTriple accreditation from the three international accreditation organisations,EQUIS,AACSB and AMBA.Presided over byMichel-Edouard Leclerc, the school has the status of a Consular Higher Education Institution (EESC). The school dean isDelphine Manceau.
Its student body is made up of 9,000 students, 25% of whom come from international backgrounds.[citation needed] The students study on the three different campuses inReims,Rouen andParis. Its merged Alumni Network becomes by size one of the leading alumni networks in France, with 72,000 graduates.
The Advanced Business School of Rouen was created in 1873, in the Normandy's region. It took the name Rouen Business School at the beginning of the new millennium.
The Advanced Business School of Reims was created in 1928, in the Champagne's region. It took the name Reims Management School at the beginning of the new millennium.
NEOMA Business School was created at the start of the 2013 school year following the merger of the two middle schools. This merger was carried out by the regional Reims and Rouen Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
NEOMA Business School is agrande école, a French institution ofhigher education that is separate from, but parallel and often connected to, the main framework of theFrench public university system.Grandes écoles are elite academic institutions that admit students through an extremely competitive process, and a significant proportion of their graduates occupy the highest levels of French society.[3][4][5] Similar toIvy League schools in the United States,Oxbridge in the UK, andC9 League in China, graduation from a grande école is considered the prerequisite credential for any top government, administrative and corporate position in France.[6][7]
The degrees are accredited by theConférence des Grandes Écoles[8] and awarded by theMinistry of National Education (France).[9] Higher education business degrees in France are organized into three levels thus facilitating international mobility: theLicence /Bachelor's degrees, and theMaster's andDoctorat degrees. The Bachelors and the Masters are organized in semesters: 6 for the Bachelors and 4 for the Masters.[10][11] Those levels of study include various "parcours" or paths based on UE (Unités d'enseignement or Modules), each worth a defined number of European credits (ECTS). A student accumulates those credits, which are generally transferable between paths. A Bachelors is awarded once 180 ECTS have been obtained (bac + 3); a Masters is awarded once 120 additional credits have been obtained (bac +5). The highly coveted PGE (Grand Ecole Program) ends with the degree of Master's in Management (MiM)[10][11][12]
NEOMA Business School offers a broad portfolio of programmes covering undergraduate, graduate, executive and doctoral education.[13]
Undergraduate programmes
Graduate programmes
Executive education
Doctoral studies
The school teaches its students to apply solid managerial skills in a globalised and multicultural professional environment. In addition to providing multicultural exposure on its campuses, the curricula include immersive periods through student exchanges. NEOMA now has 400 partner universities in 61 countries.[23]
NEOMA Business School, after being specifically selected by theHanban, launched in 2014 the firstConfucius Institute for Business of France, and the seventh in the world.[24][25] Other Confucius Institutes for Business are notably present in theLondon School of Economics[26] and theNew York State University.[27] NEOMA Business School, which welcomes each year 300 Chinese students, has many Chinese academic partners, among whichRenmin University, theBeijing University of International Business and Economics,Nankai University andWuhan University.[28] NEOMA BS stated that the institute will act as a platform dedicated to the optimisation of economic relations between China and France by providing solutions and helping local companies develop their business activities in China.[29]Laurent Fabius, a formerFrench Foreign Minister, inaugurated the event.[25] That same year, NEOMA Business School opened aDoctorate of Business Administration programme in Shanghai.[30]
Over the last 5 years, NEOMA faculty have authored nearly 500 research articles in peer-reviewed publications.[1] NEOMA supports several centers of excellence and research:[31]
In 2011, NEOMA created a Startup Lab for students and alumni. Over 225 start-ups have been launched, and over 100 projects are in incubation every year.[1] The Startup Lab consists of 3 incubators, 2 specialised accelerators, and a Coding School to support the creation and development of start-ups.[32]
In 2020, it was recently ranked 6th in the FrenchChallenges business schools ranking.[33] and 9th ex-aequo inLe Figaro Business school ranking.
In 2022, theFinancial Times ranked its Masters in Management program 32nd in the world.[34] It was ranked 30th in the 2021Financial Times ranking of Masters in Management programs[35] and 19th inThe Economist.[36]
In the 2024 Financial Times global ranking, NEOMA Business School placed 22nd worldwide for its Master in Management programme and 12th in Europe.[37] NEOMA also appears in the QS Business Masters Rankings 2024, where its Master in Marketing ranks 9th in France and 51–60 worldwide.[38]
The NEOMA Alumni network (Rouen + Reims) brings together and connects nearly 72,000 graduates and future graduates. The merger of the two former schools has helped to develop the fourth most active alumni network among French business schools.
