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Relive the Graduation Ceremony 2018 with the full video replay: REPLAY   The Grande Ecole and Bachelor Programmes graduation ceremony will be held this Saturday 15th of December at the Zenith Sud in Montpellier. A moving and solemn moment in front of over 3500 people. MBS will offer the opportunity to those who could not come to the Zenith the chance to follow the ceremony live and on video on the Facebook page of Montpellier Business School. But that is not all ! For even [...] Read more

Montpellier Business School announces the departure of its Dean, Didier Jourdan (64). After 26 years at the helm of the Grande Ecole, leading its spectacular development, Dr. Didier Jourdan will retire at the end of the year. Director since 1992 of Montpellier Business School, Didier Jourdan has built the exceptional growth of the School upon a strategic vision unique in the business & management schools’ landscape: a parallel development of academic excellence and social footprint, in accordance with the values of [...] Read more

Published on Wednesday 21st of November, Le Figaro’s 2019 ranking of business schools ranked Montpellier Business School and its Grande Ecole Programme in the 13th position among post-preparatory business schools (14th for all schools combined). This 13th place is mainly synonymous with strong growth since MBS has moved up 4 places in this ranking which "highlights academic excellence, corporate relations and the international outreach of schools". Also synonymous with recognition for MBS, this 13th place is in line with the most recent [...] Read more

Published on Tuesday, November 6th, the new "General ranking of the major management schools of 2019" of l’Etudiant magazine classifies the Montpellier Business School as the 13th best major post-preparatory class Management school (14th of all schools). With 38 major schools ranked this year and despite the increasingly strong and qualitative competition, this 13th place, which is a recognition for MBS, confirms the progress made in 2018 in this national ranking. Among the three main sub-criteria highlighted by l’Etudiant, it should be [...] Read more

On Tuesday the 6th of November, Pierre Farouz, HR manager for Sage Southern Europe and Didier Grino, Secretary-General of Montpellier Business School, signed a partnership agreement marking the merger of the two institutions around an important sharing of common values and a broader collaboration in the recruitment of students and recent graduates. Sage, the international leader in software publishing, has become the 49th major historical business partner of Montpellier Business School. A partnership based on shared values and students’ employability This partnership [...] Read more

Yann Jouannic, a 2000 graduate of the MBS Grande Ecole Programme (management control specialisation), currently works in the film industry in Montreal, Canada. At 43 years old, he remembers the years spent at MBS and tells us about his rich and unique career. A journey that even led him to win the 2018 Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Effects! What has been your career path within Montpellier Business School? I had joined the first year of the MBS Programme after a [...] Read more

Carolina and Atik arrived in Montpellier in early September. They are MBS Foundation for Equal Opportunities’ new international excellence scholarship recipients. They have joined the 2nd year of the Grande Ecole programme's English track, and are already well integrated after a short period of adaptation, including 3 weeks of intensive French classes.   A native of Venezuela, Carolina completed her Bachelor's degree at Simon Bolivar University in Caracas. She is passionate about management and already has a business creation project that she [...] Read more

On Tuesday 25 September 2018, Pierre Chauvis, Executive Director of Banque Populaire du Sud, Didier Grino, Secretary General of Montpellier Business School, and Matthias Bauland, Deputy Dean in charge of development at MBS, signed a partnership agreement marking the start of a joint collaboration between the two institutions around a managerial training programme. Banque Populaire du Sud thus becomes the 48th Major Partner of the Grande Ecole of Management The signing of this major partnership, at Montpellier Business School Campus, preceded the [...] Read more

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the reference body for its world university rankings, has just published its 2019 ranking of the best business Masters in Management and Finance in the world. Montpellier Business School has recorded several very good results, starting with a national top 10 and an increase of 5 places worldwide! The MBS Grande Ecole Programme thus takes 10th place in France among the top business schools and 66th in the world. This new good ranking follows that of the Financial [...] Read more

The Financial Times' new ranking of the world's best Masters in Management was published on Monday 10 September and the MBS Grande Ecole Programme posted a very good result, ranking 52nd. Despite the context of ever-increasing international competition and the entry into the ranking of 5 new schools, MBS has moved up one place compared to 2017, while remaining the 13th best Grande Ecole programme in France. The 2018 Financial Times Ranking, which is considered as a global benchmark, includes the [...] Read more

At the end of 2017, Montpellier Business School renewed the Business School independent audit “Business School Impact Survey” (BSIS) to measure the school's economic impact at local and regional level. The results were presented on Wednesday 27 June by Professor Michel Kalika, auditor and co-Director of BSIS, and are up 60% from 2014. Launched in 2012 by the National Foundation for the Teaching of Business Management (FNEGE), the BSIS system enables to assess the impact of a Business School on its [...] Read more

For this 11th edition, the Innovative and Responsible Business prize of the MBS Foundation for Equal Opportunities was won by Jason Moses, a recent graduate of the Master of Science International Business programme, for his project of creating an application comparing the impact of international solidarity projects : PEOPLE TAPP. Under the aegis of the Foundation of France, the Montpellier Business School Foundation for Equal Opportunities, which follows on form the MBS social policy, intervenes every year in the financing of [...] Read more