Former name | ESC Lille (est.1892) & CERAM Business School (est.1963) |
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Motto | At Home Worldwide |
Type | Grande école de commerce et de management (Private research university Business school) |
Established | 2009[1] |
Accreditation | EQUIS[1] & AACSB[1] |
Academic affiliations | Conférence des Grandes écoles[1] |
Dean | Alice Guilhon[2] |
Academic staff | 180[1] 95% PhD.;[3] 37% female;[3] 62% international[3] |
Students | 9,500[1] 120 nationalities[1] |
Location | France: Lille, Paris, Nice / Sophia Antipolis; USA: Raleigh; China: Suzhou; Brazil: Belo Horizonte; South Africa: Cape Town |
Language | English-only & French-only instruction |
Website | www.skema.edu |
SKEMA Business School ("School of Knowledge Economy and Management") is one of the leading French business schools devoted to higher education and research. It has the legal status of a non-profit association under the French "1901 law". It was founded in 2009 as a result of the merger between the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce (ESC), Lille and CERAM Business School , Sophia Antipolis.[4] The Lille school was founded in 1892 and CERAM in 1963.[5] It offers programmes such as a BBA in Global Management, Master of Science (MS and MSc), EMBA,[6] doctorates in Business Administration.[7]