Founded in 1909 in Angers, France, ESSCA is a grande école specializing in business offering a wide portfolio of programmes and degrees in management accessible immediately after the baccalauréat or secondary school.

Located at eight different sites including four campuses approved for non-French-speaking students in Angers, Paris, Budapest and Shanghai, ESSCA’s international curriculum can boast of an international partner network of over institutions in more than 56 countries.

ESSCA’s mission statement

ESSCA School of Management creates knowledge and develops responsible managers and entrepreneurs, while fully considering planet boundaries,  human, ethical and economic dimensions of organisations in a sustainable and multicultural environment driven by technological trends or social innovations.

Vision

ESSCA School of Management aims to be a leading actor in a higher education ecosystem offering one of the best working, research, and learning environments in Europe by 2030.

Values
Humanism – Responsibility – Agility – Reliability​

Values express important and lasting beliefs with a direct link to the history of the School and the vision of the Governing Body. They also guide our strategic focus. Members of staff individually and collectively identify with these values, passing them on to our stakeholders and in particular our students.

A Winning Strategy

Each year ESSCA welcomes nearly 7 000 students and trainees in continuing education.

More than 6 000 candidates take the competitive entrance examination for the Master’s in Management Programme and for the International Management Bachelor’s. 1050 have been admitted into the 1st year for the Master’s and 320 into the 1st year for the Bachelor’s. ESSCA’s alumni quickly join the corporate world— 80% have signed a contract before their graduation, 93% of young graduates are recruited in less than 3 months and 93% feel that they have a function in line with their professional career objectives.

ESSCA is a well-established Business School: For more than 110 years it has consistently adhered to the humanistic values that make up its ethical foundations.

ESSCA, an association under French law (1901), holds the EESPIG label (Etablissement d’Enseignement Supérieur Privé d’Intérêt Général), which distinguishes French private higher education establishments committed to the success of their students.
It is our aim to develop ESSCA’s excellence further and to foster an atmosphere of support for young people who are about to start their professional lives.