The HEC Paris Executive MBA is a hands-on program in general management, designed to provide you with the fundamental tools and skills to add both breadth and depth to your knowledge and leadership skills while you continue to work. Our Executive MBA is consistently ranked among the best in the world, graduating 250 students per year who join HEC Paris' 60,000-plus network of alumni.
The HEC Paris Executive MBA program is available in five part-time tracks across three locations that allow students to select a format that fits with their lifestyle and professional career -The flexible curriculum requires 50 days out of office, over 15 – 18 months. Participants average 38 years in age and bring at least 8 years of work experience before stepping into an HEC classroom, which ensures each intake is brimming with the world's best and brightest professional talent. The most recent EMBA intake features 38 nationalities.
By graduation, 70% of participants report a salary increase. Furthermore, 38% move up in their companies, and 47% change roles.
About
From the School
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Campus and Location
Our Executive MBA delivers a flexible, fulfilling education for emerging executives who want to make a difference. You will join a close-knit cohort of peers with whom you will have class and collaborate with for the duration of the program. The HEC Paris Executive MBA is delivered at three locations: on the main HEC campus in Jouy-en-Josas, a wooded suburb just outside of Paris; at Paris-Champerret in downtown Paris; and at the HEC campus in Doha.
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.
Contact
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
- Management Test: choice of GMAT, GRE, Executive Assessment or in-house HEC management test.
- Copy of English test (e.g. TOEFL, TOEIC, IELTS, or PTE score report)*
- 2 Recommendations
- Passport photo
- Copies of higher education degrees
- Copy of passport (copies of both if you have dual nationality) or birth certificate
- Current professional resume in English (Minimum of 8 years of work experience)
- International exposure or work experience
- Non-refundable application fee of 200 euros
We regularly host events led by regional Marketing and Recruitment Managers, HEC Paris Alumni, and other like-minded people also considering an EMBA. For the time being, all of our events are held virtually. Otherwise, you can always introduce yourself here: HEC - Introduce yourself (topapply.com)
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
The Executive MBA curriculum includes the following components:
- The Core Courses
- Leadership Development
- The Custom Courses
- The Capstone Project
The Core Courses
The Core Courses enable you to develop your knowledge and expertise in all the key areas of general management. Core Courses are broken into two key areas: Mastering the Fundamentals and Trends & Transformations.
Leadership Development
From the Fundamentals of Leadership, Leading Organizations, Topics in General Management Session, and Personal & Professional Development (PPD) workshops, leadership development is a crucial aspect of an Executive MBA at HEC Paris. The focus on leadership provides executive participants with essential tools, strategic vision, and the right mindset to ignite and manage their career transition journey with confidence, methodology, and determination.
Custom Courses
While participating in a generalist Executive MBA program, you will have the possibility to delve deeper into a subject area of particular interest to you and network with classmates from other tracks around the world who share these same interests.
Choose one elective from a wide range of online or in-person electives to further customize your Executive MBA. The full list of offered courses, dates and application process will be provided at the beginning of the program.
You will be asked to confirm your preference of Major when you start the program. Please note that there may be restrictions in terms of minimum enrollment, available spaces, or industry experience for certain Majors.
The Capstone Project
The Capstone Project is the final deliverable of the HEC Paris Executive MBA program. It is an individual and comprehensive exercise, one that is carried out over a period of several months during the program. Its three aims are To apply the concepts and techniques acquired throughout the program to a project of significant magnitude
To demonstrate the participants' ability to address and analyze an issue of particular strategic importance for either a for-profit or non-profit organization, from a top management viewpoint
To enable participants to undertake a potentially career-shaping activity.
Faculty
Our faculty members' research keeps classes fresh, and ensures that students are on the receiving end of the most important strategies and ideas in business today. During the last five years, our faculty, who are 64 percent international, have published more than 440 research articles, and presented nearly 1,000 times throughout the world.
Working side-by-side with some of the best minds in business education, our students have the opportunity to discuss, debate and brainstorm in a personalized and stimulating environment, with 138 professors who sharpen their analytical skills and give them rock-solid insights for making decisions.
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
Our Career Center ensures that our students' career goals align with the needs of the global job market. We encourage students to explore a variety of industries and functions, fueling career transformation. The majority of our students succeed in changing their career paths, whether it is a sector, function or geography change. Almost 70 percent of our 2016 graduates changed at least two of these three elements, while 37 percent changed all three aspects of their career.
HEC Paris MBA students graduate armed with a global mindset, the latest knowledge of today and access to a network of over 56,000 alumni in 132 countries. Within three months of graduation, 93 percent of graduates accept job offers and nearly 50 percent secure employment outside of their home countries.
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
€66,000 Tuition (for September 2018 intake)
€25,000 Living expenses
FINANCIAL AID:
We have over 1 million euros made available each year by the HEC Foundation to help our students pay for their MBA. Scholarship are offered to our students based on excellence in the amount of €14,000, €20,000 or €31,000.
Once you have been admitted to the program, our admissions team will guide you on how to apply for scholarships or how you may go about seeking financial help from a financial institution.
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
