HEC Paris becomes founder member of ParisTech

ParisTech, the cluster of France’s engineering Grandes Écoles, has approved the application from management school HEC Paris for founder membership status. This alliance will forge closer ties between science, technology, business and management studies and will lend support to pluri-disciplinary courses with a focus on entrepreneurship. It brings to 11 the number of schools in the cluster.

HEC Paris, ranked by the Financial Times as Europe’s top management school, offers high standard postgraduate programmes such as full-time MBA, Faculty Research, PhDs, customised Executive Education programs, a European Masters in Management and an Executive MBA.

Cyrille van Effenterre, President of ParisTech, said: “The inclusion of ParisTech ensures we have a wider academic offering. ParisTech membership will bring with it increased opportunities for mobility between schools for the 18,900 students in our institutions, who will be in a position to respond better to the needs of the world of the economy.”

Pierre Simon, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris, said: “The inclusion of HEC is very much part of the spirit which presided over the creation of the academic institutions making up the Pole of Research and Higher Education (PRES) at the instigation of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. Over and above the effect of scale, the goal sought is the development of cross-boundary and innovative approaches. ParisTech intends to develop new and original training and research initiatives, particularly in the combined fields of Technology & Management, as yet undeveloped in France.”

Bernard Ramanantsoa, Director of HEC, said: “Faced with increasingly intense competition between business and management schools, HEC must preserve and reinforce the competitive strengths that enabled it to establish its leadership in France and Europe. By its membership of a PRES of such high prestige, HEC will consolidate and expand the scope of the many teaching and research partnerships already established with a number of ParishTech schools such as the École Polytechnique, the ENSAE, TELECOM and the Mines.”