France Business School

France Business School (fBS) was a French Business School, founded in 2012 by a meanwhile cancelled merger of four French business schools:

France Business School
MottoNew World. New School.
TypeGrande École
Established2012
PresidentIsidore Fartaria
CEOPatrick Molle
Academic staff
170
Students7.000
Location,
France (also in China)
Websitewww.france-bs.com/en/

History

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fBS was created in a period of merger between French Business Schools in order to achieve "critical size" at an international level.[1] It was officially announced on 22 May 2012.[2] fBS was finally announced as the merger of 4 pre-existing schools: l'École supérieure de commerce et de management (ESCEM) in Tours-Poitiers-Orléans, l'École supérieure de commerce d'Amiens (ESC Amiens), l'École supérieure de commerce de Clermont (ESC Clermont), l'École supérieure de commerce Bretagne Brest (ESC Bretagne Brest).

Type of recruitment

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At its inception, fBS announced its withdrawal from the existing admission testing procedures (BCE, Ecricome) and introduced a different admission procedure from the traditional competitive entrance examination system by organising recruitment days called Talent Days[3] in about 20 French cities.

This recruitment targets different profiles:

  • Students in the 2nd year of the preparatory track
  • Holders of a 2-year undergraduate degree or currently enrolled as a Bachelor student
  • Students with a 3-year undergraduate degree
  • Graduates from an administrative or management degree programme
  • Foreign students, holders of a Bachelor's degree
  • Atypical profiles (students with "non-linear" backgrounds)

Location

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Other sites have joined the campuses of the founding fBS schools (Amiens, Brest, Clermont-Ferrand, Orléans, Poitiers, Tours):

Notes and references

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  1. ^ Christine Lagoutte, « À quoi servent les fusions entre business schools ? », Le Figaro étudiant, 22 mai 2012 http://etudiant.lefigaro.fr/orientation/actus-et-conseils/detail/article/a-quoi-servent-les-fusions-entre-business-schools-138
  2. ^ "France Business School : un projet ambitieux semé d'embûches - Educpros". letudiant.fr. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
  3. ^ "Les Talent Days » FBS Talent Day". france-bs.com. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
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