ISC Paris is among the business and management Grandes Écoles that rose in various independent rankings in 2020.
Our position improved in five French and international rankings for 2019/2020.
ISC Paris–with a 50-year history and the ability to adapt to the business world’s expectations of employees–is firmly established as one of France’s top 20 best business and management schools.
2019/2020 French and International Rankings
Financial Times worldwide ranking of the best Masters in Management programs
Financial Times ranking of the top 95 European business schools
Le Figaro étudiants’ 2020 ranking of business schools awarding Master degrees
L’Etudiant’s 2020 honor roll of business Grandes Écoles
Challenges magazine’s honor roll of post-preparatory course business schools

What do these rankings mean? They are a useful way to differentiate between schools.
In choosing a school, students’ selection criteria should undoubtedly include these types of rankings. But it’s also important to consider your own–highly personal–expectations in terms of the school’s instructional approach, support, proximity to businesses, specializations, learning environment, and value for money. ISC Paris’ reputation is particularly strong in those last two areas.
We are a school on a human scale, where you can get to know other students, form connections with professors, and where we truly support our students in identifying their career goals.
ISC Paris has one of the best “value for money” ratios, because we give students the tools to grow professionally and find jobs at highly-ranked companies. We’re ranked 13th on the Financial Times “value for money” list, based on the relationship between the cost of an education and students’ salaries three years after graduation.
To provide greater access to our programs, we are also committed to offering work/study options for the traditional tracks in all of our programs.

Our rankings are rising, because our programs are solid and sustainable
ISC Paris’ improved rankings are the result of many unique factors: our Grande École program being accredited by international entities (AACSB, AMBA, and EPAS), our international reputation, the strength of our relationships with businesses, and our graduates’ career success and the return on their educational investment.
International reputation
The international appeal of ISC Paris Grande École’s Master in Management is apparent in our rankings:
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International mobility
ISC Paris ranked 73rd on the 2019 Financial Times ranking of the best Masters in Management programs, in terms of international mobility of alumni. Forty-two percent of ISC Paris’ alumni work outside France or hold jobs with a strong international component, according to the most recent employment survey completed in 2019 by the French Conférence des Grandes Écoles (CGE).
Challenges magazine’s 2020 rankings placed ISC Paris 10th among post-preparatory course business schools, in terms of the high number of graduates who start their careers outside France.
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International partners
ISC Paris ranked 17th on Le Figaro étudiants’ ranking, for the quality of our international partner universities: 67% of them are internationally-accredited.
Challenges’ magazine’s 2020 ranking of post-preparatory program business schools ranked ISC Paris 7th, for the number of students who earn an international dual degree
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International graduates
ISC Paris ranked 8th among business Grandes Écoles on Le Figaro étudiants’ 2020 ranking, for the number of graduates from outside France (41% of graduates in 2019).
Career placement results
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Initial career placement
L’Etudiant ranks ISC Paris 13th in its Business rankings. This ranking looks at the number of businesses created by ISC Paris graduates in the past three years (60, many of which were founded in the ISC Paris Incubator), and students’ salaries upon graduation and three years later.
The Financial Times 2019 ranking of European Business Schools puts ISC Paris 55th in terms of alumni salaries, using a three-year average of graduates’ salaries.
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Long-term career outlook
ISC Paris has 42 alumni in the renowned Who’s Who, a compilation of women and men who are leaders in all sectors in France.
Challenges magazine ranked ISC Paris 10th among post-preparatory program business schools, for our number of alumni in Who’s Who.
Le Figaro étudiant ranked ISC Paris 16th among business Grandes Écoles in 2020, in terms of corporate relations. We owe these rankings to our dynamic network of 18,500 graduates, and to our long-term relationships of trust with partner corporations.
50 years of history and growth
For half a century, ISC Paris has invested and innovated, to offer our students the best possible education and the best possible career path.
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Our Grande École program was accredited by EPAS.
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ISC Paris was accredited by AMBA (Grande École and MBA International Business programs). Also in 2019, our Orléans campus opened, and we launched our Bachelor program there.
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ISC Paris received a four-year renewal of the “Bac+5” (high school + five years) accreditation for our Master program, from CEFDG.
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All of ISC Paris’ programs were accredited by AACSB.
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We launched our three-year Bachelor program on the Paris campus.
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We became AACSB-eligible.
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We joined two competitive examination programs in Paris: the Banque Commune d’Epreuves (BCE) and the Banque IENA.
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We joined the Conférence des Grandes Écoles.
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Our Grande École program was authorized to award Master degrees.
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We received the French Ministry of Higher Education’s approval for our Grande École program (high school + five years).
- 1963
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We launched our Grande École program on the Paris campus.