at La Défense. ESSEC was the first French business school to receive AACSB accreditation, in 1997.

Grenoble Graduate School of Business: The international and postgraduate orientated arm of Grenoble École de Management, founded in 1984 and based in the southeastern French city of Grenoble, where it is conveniently located next to one of France’s 12 World Trade Centers.

EDHEC Business School: A grand école based in Lille, close to France’s northern border to Belgium that also has compatriot campuses in both Paris and Nice – the southeastern coastal city (France’s fifth most populous city) from which its full-time MBA program is delivered.

Careers and MBA jobs in France

There are a wide range of career options open to graduates of an MBA in France who wish to remain and take up MBAjobs within the country. France, along with Spain and Germany, is one of a number of European nations that sits just behind the UK for the number of established MBA employers in the market.

Although France does not currently make the top-10 nations for its total number of MBA jobs (a table led by the far more populous nations of the US, India and China), employers reported a 6% growth in France’s market for MBA jobs in 2014, in spite of the losses seen during another difficult year for its neighbors in Southern European, Spain and Italy.

The MBA in France and ROI

All members of the current top-five business schools in France (see previous tab) were included in the sample for a new research report into the return on investment