Each year, French press website L’Etudiant releases a ranking of business schools in France, which includes post-high school and post-prep business degrees.
Third best business school among 5-year post-high school programs, EMLV scores particularly well on international outlook, corporate relations and graduate satisfaction.
The graduate satisfaction criterion takes into account several considerations, such as feedback from alumni on the quality of the business school curriculum and its teaching staff, campus life, international exposure, corporate partnerships, career development, peer student relations, quality of student services, support on personal projects and so on.
As the leading school in the SESAME competition, EMLV is in 3rd place in the post-bac ranking and is still at the top of the 2023 ranking of the primary business schools on several criteria:
To rank the business schools preferred by students, L’Étudiant’s journalists asked graduates who left the school in 2018 and 2021: “What do they think of their former school?”.
This criterion takes into account numerous elements, in particular feedback from alumni concerning the quality of the business school curriculum and teaching staff, community life, international openness, relations with companies, preparation for professional life, relations between students, the quality of student services, support for personal projects, etc.
Post-baccalaureate schools in the Etudiant ranking:
1 – IESEG
2 – ESSCA
3 – EMLV
4 – EM Normandie
5 – EDC
6 – PSB
7 – ESDES
8 – ESCE
8 – IPAG
10 -ICD
10- ISG
12 – ISTEC
13 – EBS
14 – IDRAC
The L’Etudiant ranking identifies the best business schools in France and sorts them out by their degree duration, according to the quality of their courses and teaching staff. With 47 points, EMLV ranks 19th out of 37 ranked business schools.
| Rang général | Rang postbac | École | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HEC Paris | 67 | |
| 2 | ESSEC, Cergy-Pontoise | 65 | |
| 3 | ESCP BS, Paris | 64 | |
| 4 | EDHEC BS, Lille, Nice, Paris | 63 | |
| 4 | emlyon BS | 63 | |
| 6 | SKEMA BS, Lille, Paris, Sophia Antipolis | 62 | |
| 7 | 1 | IESEG, Lille, Paris | 61 |
| 8 | NEOMA BS, Reims, Rouen | 59 | |
| 9 | Audencia BS, Nantes | 58 | |
| 10 | TBS Education | 56 | |
| 11 | KEDGE BS, Bordeaux, Marseille | 53 | |
| 11 | Montpellier BS | 53 | |
| 13 | Excelia BS | 52 | |
| 13 | Grenoble EM | 52 | |
| 15 | ICN BS, Nancy, Metz, Paris | 51 | |
| 16 | 2 | ESSCA, Angers, Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Lyon, Bordeaux | 50 |
| 17 | Rennes School of Business | 49 | |
| 18 | EM Strasbourg | 48 | |
| 19 | 3 | EMLV, Paris La Défense | 47 |
| 20 | 4 | EM Normandie, Le Havre, Caen, Paris | 46 |
| 20 | Institut Mines-Télécom BS, Evry, Paris | 46 | |
| 22 | Burgundy School of Business, Dijon, Lyon | 45 | |
| 22 | ISC Paris | 45 | |
| 24 | 5 | EDC Paris BS | 44 |
| 25 | 6 | Paris SB, Paris | 43 |
| 26 | ESC Clermont Business School | 39 | |
| 27 | 7 | ESDES Lyon | 31 |
| 27 | INSEEC, Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon | 31 | |
| 29 | 8 | ESCE, Paris, Lyon | 30 |
| 29 | 8 | IPAG, Paris, Nice | 30 |
| 31 | South Champagne BS (ex ESC Troyes) | 29 | |
| 32 | 10 | ICD, Paris, Toulouse | 27 |
| 32 | 11 | ISG Paris | 27 |
| 34 | 12 | ISTEC, Paris | 26 |
| 35 | Brest BS | 25 | |
| 36 | 13 | EBS Paris | 23 |
| 37 | 14 | IDRAC BS, Lyon | 22 |
More than just rankings, these rankings proposed by L’Étudiant are orientation tools for students who can generate rankings according to their wishes.
To help students search for a business school, the EMLV organises several “Open Days” sessions, allowing students to discover the school and its teaching staff.
To learn more about the French ranking here
To learn more about the EMLV programmes
This post was last modified on 31/07/2025 12:42
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