At the HEC Paris MBA, you will find the ideal environment to realize your full potential and become a business leader for the 21st century. Working alongside your high-achieving peers and with our world-class professors, you will build your competencies in an energizing, collaborative community that mirrors the diversity of today's global economy.
A perfect equation between the size of our intakes — limited to 300 students yearly — and an individualized approach to learning means that your ideas and input are valued. This encouragement comes from faculty, staff, and other students, in an environment where everyone knows your name and participants form a close-knit community for life. Conversations with your peers — 94% international — will shape your viewpoint, enrich your experience, and prepare you to work with people from many different backgrounds and cultures.
Excellent professors at the forefront of research will build upon your unique talents and shape your learning experience. Our faculty infuse a rare combination of broad experience, personal insights, and the latest in advanced management thinking into their classes.
During our 16-month program, you will develop the core management skills needed to excel in any industry, anywhere in the world. You will also go much deeper, with the flexibility to pursue international exchanges and internships, as well as specialized studies and hands-on learning in the sector of your choice.
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Campus and Location
HEC Paris is located on a 340-acre wooded campus, 10 miles (17km) southwest of Paris, in the picturesque village of Jouy-en-Josas, from which the culture, history, and charm of the French capital are easily accessible.
Strategically situated in the Paris-Saclay Innovation Cluster, our location enables our students to draw upon the expertise of the cluster and team up with scientists & business leaders to bring their technological inventions to market. Our proximity to Paris allows students to easily find an internship in the city and to take advantage of Paris' location as a travel hub for all of Europe.
Many of our MBA students choose to live on campus, in one of our residence halls. We offer individual rooms, and a small number of apartments that are reserved for couples and families. In order to take advantage of on-campus housing options, we suggest that you apply as soon as possible after you've been accepted to the program. The HEC Campus also boasts a cafeteria, a bar and cafette, study rooms and a lounge, a newly built gym and sports hall, not to mention 8,000m² of sports fields. Our library offers 60,000 books and e-books on management, as well as 1,500 periodicals in a variety of languages to help keep you up-to-date.
Facilities
The HEC Paris MBA campus includes several eateries, a gym, sports facilities, a library, a language lab, forested running trails and a lake. Most of our MBA students live on campus in a dedicated residence with equipped individual rooms and apartments reserved for couples and families. The residence includes meeting rooms, a relaxation lounge, the Piano Bar, a laundromat and a reserved parking area.
Students take part in over 40+ social and professional clubs such as the Technology Club, LGBT Club, Luxury Club, French Connection Club, Wine & Spirits Club and Consulting Club. Fun, on-campus events, such as cultural weeks immerse students in the cultures, traditions and cuisines of their international classmates.
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Admissions Office
HEC Paris MBA
HEC Paris MBA
Address
1, rue de la Libération
F-78351
Jouy-en-Josas Cedex, 78351
France
F-78351
Jouy-en-Josas Cedex, 78351
France
Phone
+33 (0)1 39 67 95 46 / 73.83
Fax
+33 (0)1 39 67 74 65
Email
admissionmba@hec.fr
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Admissions
Overview
From The School
We value leadership qualities demonstrated via extra-curricular activities on top of professional and academic experiences. We have monthly admissions deadlines, and scholarships are available year round. You will need the following items to complete your application:
- Completed Application Form
- Completed Essays
- 2 Recommendations
- Current Professional Resume in English
- Passport-style Photo
- Transcripts from all post-secondary institutions
- Copy of Passport (copies of both if you have dual nationality) or birth certificate
- Official GMAT* or GRE* Score Report and a scan of your score report
(*Note: To share the GMAT Score Report with us, please use the code 0TL-6C-28. To share the GRE Score Report with us, please use the code 0649) - Test taker copy of the TOEFL*, TOEIC, IELTS, Cambridge English Exam or PTE Score Report
(*Note: To share the TOEFL score report with us, please use the code 0649. If you choose to take one of the other tests listed, the results will be shared automatically)
- Non-refundable application fee of €200
We regularly host events led by our Regional Marketing and Recruitment Managers, HEC Paris Alumni, and other like-minded people also considering an MBA. The events are hosted both in-person as well as virtually. Check our full list of events here.
You can also introduce yourself here to give us some background about your profile: Connect with us.
Applicants: 1,994
Acceptance Rate: 19%
Years Work Experience: 6
Average Age: 31
Test Scores
GMAT (25th and 75th percentiles)
660 - 710
GPA
-
Deadlines
Rolling Admission Deadline
June 1
Other Admission Factors
Academic
GMAT Score
Letters of Recommendation
Essay / Personal Statement
Non-Academic
Interviews
Work Experience
School Type And Accreditation
School Type
Public
AACSB-approved
Yes
Selectivity Rating
Academics
Academics
Overall
From the School
Degrees Offered
HEC Paris is one of the world's only Executive MBA programs that offers specializations. You have the opportunity to specialize in an area of your choice, allowing you to become an expert in a specific sector. These specializations are noted for providing excellent networking opportunities by allowing you to work with classmates coming from a wide variety of backgrounds in different parts of the world. Classes are available fully in English; we also offer a bilingual track for those who wish to study in English and French.
Specializations:
- Manage the Digital Revolution (Paris & Silicon Valley)
- Test your startup (Paris & Silicon Valley)
- Innovate & Lead like a CEO (Paris & Boston)
- Shape the Future of Energy (Doha & Berlin)
- Luxury, Today & Tomorrow (Paris & Shanghai)
- Inspire Change in Social Business (Capetown & Bangalore)
- Design and Deliver Exceptional Services (Singapore & Paris)
- Master Financial Challenges: from Banking to Restructuring (Paris)
*locations subject to change
Academic Programs
Our 16-month-long program is specifically designed to give you the time needed to learn new skills, as well as gain specific work experience in a new sector or job function. It incorporates a personalized career-development program with our Career Center, as well as unique, hands-on learning and leadership opportunities.
It is an ideal length of time to make a real impact on your future without keeping you out of the workforce for too long.
Fundamental Phase
In the 8-month-long Fundamental Phase, a rigorous combination of academic training and hands-on learning teach core business skills. After eight months, you have developed the exact skills needed to transform business performance.
Customized Phase
Tailor your MBA by choosing one of seven specializations offered yearly during the MBA's Customized Phase. These advanced modules allow you to focus on a specific management skillset, developing your expertise through a "set menu" of mandatory courses which includes one "backbone" class of 36 hours and six classes of 18 hours each. The seven specializations we currently offer are:
Advanced Management
Digital Innovation
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Strategic Marketing
Strategy
Sustainable & Disruptive Innovation
Read more about them here.
You also have the option to choose from a range of electives as a part of the customized phase to complement your specialization. The HEC Paris MBA also includes different other ways of customizations in the form of student clubs, the MBA Project, a Double Degree, an International Exchange, certifications, and more.
Faculty
Place yourself at the receiving end of the most important strategies and ideas in business today. At the HEC Paris MBA, you will discuss, debate and brainstorm in a personalized and rigorous environment, with professors who sharpen your analytical skills and give you rock-solid insights for making decisions.
Our 140 permanent professors hold PhDs from the world's leading universities, including Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and top European institutions. In the previous five years alone, our professors have published more than 500 research articles, making a substantial contribution to how the world understands business.
Program Types
Full-Time
Yes
Part-Time
Yes
Evening
No
Executive
Yes
Online
No
Faculty Information
Total Faculty
138
Students Say
With a reputation in Europe that is “second to none,” HEC Paris (located just outside the city) boasts a “stellar” faculty, a world class reputation, a double degree option, and a significant presence in niche areas such as Luxury and Sustainable Business that is not commonly found in other MBA programs. Following a curriculum overhaul, a truly “global and well-rounded view” of business is presented with a strong emphasis on case studies and group work.
The full-time HEC MBA lasts for twelve or sixteen months and is divided into two phases. During the Fundamental Phase, students gain a solid foundation in the core business subjects; in the customized phase, students choose to complete either a specialization or an international exchange (based upon their personal career objectives), and either a fieldwork project or “a wide range” of electives. HEC also offers other degrees and programs, and “the entire campus is well integrated,” with an interconnection between Masters, MBAs, and Grande École students via the sharing of “a lot of activities” such as sports, clubs, and parties.
The MBA administration team is drawn from various nationalities and “reflects the school’s international character”; it is “unlike usual French administrations” in that it is “quick, effective and listens to demands promptly.” The school helps students in making visa and other travel arrangements, and “class representatives meet the administration on a regular basis.” The dean’s office is also “wide open,” with specific time slots made available for students.
Concentrations
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Information Systems/Information Technology
Investment Banking
Leadership/Management
Marketing
MS/MBA - Dual Degree
Organizational Behavior
Supply Chain Management
Finance
Information Systems/Information Technology
Investment Banking
Leadership/Management
Marketing
MS/MBA - Dual Degree
Organizational Behavior
Supply Chain Management
Center for Research
Accounting
Economics
Entrepeneurship
Leadership/Management
Marketing
Real Estate
Economics
Entrepeneurship
Leadership/Management
Marketing
Real Estate
Specialities of Faculty
Academic specialties of faculty
URL
Innovation Management & Globalization
Private Equity
Digital Innovation for Business
Luxury Strategies
Social Business, Enterprise and Poverty
Decision Sciences
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
European Law and Risk Regulation
Sustainability
Courses in Sustainability
Yes
Sustainability course is
Required
Description
A company has an economic responsibility: it must earn a fair return for its stockholders. However, corporate social responsibility means that organizations have also ethical and societal responsibilities that go beyond its economic responsibilities. CSR requires organizations to enlarge their understandings of their responsibilities to include other stakeholders like employees, customers, suppliers, local communities, state governments, international organizations, etc. Ethics could be seen as a crucial component of individual and group behaviors at the heart of organizations responsibilities.
This course considers the ethical responsibilities of managers and corporations. We consider individual and organizational business actions and decisions in the light of moral principles and values. We intend to raise difficult ethical challenges and to provide frameworks that inform about common patterns of success and failure in managing ethics and corporate responsibilities. We address the multi-level (individual, team, organizational level) and multicultural context of ethical behavior and responsibility. Finally we question the discourse about ethical values in business and market activity, and analyze the potential changes to business caused by the consideration of ethic's central role.
http://www.mba.hec.edu/Learning-Experience/Full-time/Fundamental-phase/Core-courses-2/Ethics-and-Corporate-Social-Responsibility
Research Opportunities in Sustainability
Description
School's environmental commitment 1:
Social Business Certificate
School's environmental commitment 2:
NetImpact Club
School's environmental commitment 3:
Required courses in ethics.
Careers
Careers
Career Overview
From The School
The HEC Paris Career Center (CC) offers a dynamic approach to helping you achieve your career transformation. Our corporate approach focuses on increasing the range and deepening the quality of the companies that come to recruit on campus. Our individualized approach focuses on giving you the exact tools you need to realize your post-MBA career goals.
Helping you find your career path:
The Career Center has developed a unique, three-step process to help you reach your full potential. Throughout your MBA journey, our career advisors will be at your side to help you achieve your career goals, whether you're seeking a transformation to a new sector, function and/or industry, or want...
Career Center Services:
The Career Center works side-by-side with you to help you achieve your post-MBA career goals. We provide a range of services to enable you to make career decisions that are aligned with both your personal values and professional aspirations.
Corporate Partnerships:
HEC Paris' long-term partnerships with international companies help ensure your career success. We currently have nearly 40 corporate partners who regularly come to campus or meet with students virtually, give company presentations and speak at MBA Club events, and actively recruit our students.
Our top recruiters:
In 2021, 68% of our graduates found their post-MBA jobs through school-facilitated opportunities, including on-campus recruitment, HEC-facilitated internships, internal job postings, or through the HEC Paris alumni network. This list of our 2021 top recruiters includes many of HEC Paris' Corporate Partners, including: Amazon, Bain & Company, KPMG, L'Oréal, McKinsey & Company, PwC, Société Général and Schneider Electric.
Key Stats from our most recent Employment Report:
93% accepted job offers within three months of graduation
69% found a job outside their home country
$128,628 annual salary package
Read the full employment report here
Average Starting Salary
$121,080
Graduates Employed by Area of Practice
33%
Other
22%
Consulting
17%
General Management
15%
Marketing
14%
Finance/Accounting
13%
Operations/Logistics
Students Say
The administration has “excellent outreach” to the “vast alumni network” (more than 50,000 graduates worldwide), calling upon them to meet with current students and act as guest speakers and ambassadors for the school. Companies come “from all over” to recruit at HEC, and the school has “one of the most widespread and global networks available.” “I have contacted lots of alumni with an 80 percent plus response rate and willingness to help,” says a student. Soft skills are highly stressed here, and “professors are very talented at ingraining the skills into the pupils,” and there are also career man- agement activities every Friday, which include presentation skills, mock interviews, and CV writing sessions.A large number of students go on to work outside of France; many students are “multi-lingual, not just bi-lingual,” but English is the only language required to attend HEC, as students say that “with intermediate French you can work almost everywhere.” “You need French just to joke around with colleagues. Business is all English,” says one. The much-appreciated duration of the program is “the perfect timing for a career change,” and many students here have taken a pause from a former job in order to gain international exposure before going back into the work force. Recent employers of HEC Paris graduates include Amazon, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Shell, and L’Oréal.
Job Function
| Job Function | % of Grads Seeking Employment Who Accept Jobs w/in 3 Months |
Median Salary | Mean Salary | Low Base Salary | High Base Salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 33% | ||||
| Consulting | 22% | ||||
| General Management | 17% | ||||
| Marketing / Sales | 15% | ||||
| Finance / Accounting | 14% | ||||
| Operations / Logistics | 13% |
Industries
| Industries | % of Grads Seeking Employment Who Accept Jobs w/in 3 Months |
Median Salary | Mean Salary | Low Base Salary | High Base Salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Technology | 25% | ||||
| Other | 19% | ||||
| Consulting | 18% | ||||
| Financial Services | 14% | ||||
| Consumer Products | 9% | ||||
| Petroleum / Energy | 4% | ||||
| Pharmaceutical / Biotechnology / Healthcare | 4% | ||||
| Government | 2% | ||||
| Manufacturing | 2% | ||||
| Non-profit | 2% | ||||
| Real Estate | 1% |
Prominent Alumni
Francois Hollande
President of the French Republic
Henri de Castries
Chairman of the AXA Group Management Board and CEO
Jean-Paul Agon
CEO, L’Oréal
François-Henri Pinault
CEO, Kering
Jean-Dominique Senart
CEO, Michelin
Tuition & Aid
Tuition & Aid
Overview
From The School
Deciding to pursue an MBA is a big commitment, a substantial investment in yourself and your future. At HEC Paris, you can apply for a wide selection of scholarships, loans and funding in order to reach your career goals.
Tuition:
September 2022: € 78,000
January 2023: € 80,000
Accommodation:
Individual Room: 19m² for € 649.35/month
One Bedroom Apartment: 35-38m² for € 898.95/month
Estimated Expenses for 16 months:
Including Accommodation, Books, Meals, Transportation, Miscellaneous: € 24,825
Financial Aid
Funding:
Just as it is important to have a long-term career plan, it is also crucial that you plan how you are going to finance your MBA studies. An MBA is a significant investment, in terms of both time and money, so a solid financial plan is necessary.
At HEC Paris, we want to make paying for your MBA as easy and straightforward as possible, with a range of scholarships and funding options available to you. Please be aware that these lists are not exhaustive. Do your own research and read through all the information carefully.
Scholarships:
All applicants admitted into the HEC Paris MBA will have the opportunity to apply for scholarships. We are able to offer our students over €1,000,000 in aid every year thanks to the work and donations of the HEC Foundation.
Discover the scholarships here
Financial aid by country
Some institutions offer scholarships, loans and other funding to students who come from a certain country, or for those who are going to pursue their studies outside of a particular country.
Read more about country-specific & multinational funding options
Dates
Financial Aid Statistics
Average Scholarship / Grant Aid Package
$12,029
All Students Receiving Scholarships / Grants
52%
Tuition Full-Time (per year)
Tuition (In-State)
$62,525
Tuition (Out-State)
$62,525
Student Body
Student Body
Student Body Profile
Total Full-Time Enrollment
229
Part Time
14%
Demographics
93.00%
International
30% female
70% male
Campus Life
From The School
Our MBA students form a close-knit community for life. A perfect equation between our class size--capped at 250 participants--and our individualized approach to learning means that our students' ideas and input are valued. Our 90 percent international student body enriches the overall experience of the program, helping students to shape their view points, and prepares them to work with people from many different backgrounds and cultures.
Students Say
This is a “very serious and career oriented” group, but the overall climate is “very friendly” and “the level of respect is very high among the participants in the program.” Program participants are divided into “intakes” (read: season of admission), and with fifty countries represented at the school, the student body is “very diverse in experience and ethnicity.” “The term minority doesn’t apply at this school since students from every country/region are a minority.” “It is really amazing how much we learn from other students by the simple fact the work teams are made, on purpose, of people whose background have nothing to do with each other ’s,” says another.
The campus is located near the foothills of Jouy-en-Josas and has “a very large green area, a lake and plenty of [open space].” Coupled with “good and affordable” family housing, the school is a “great place to raise kids in a quiet and healthy environment.” “Overall the quality of life here is outstanding if you enjoy living in a ‘student bubble’ type environment,” says a student. Perhaps this accounts for the “great social life” between students, many of whom take weekend trips to other European destinations.
More Information
% of Classrooms with Internet Access
100%
Campus-wide Internet Network
Yes
Internet Access for All Students
Yes
