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France Business School

France Business School

Motto	New World. New School.
Type	Grande École
Established	2012
President	Isidore Fartaria
CEO	Patrick Molle
Academic staff	170
Students	7.000
Location	Paris Amiens Brest Clermont-Ferrand Orléans Poitiers Tours , France (also in China)
Website	www.france-bs.com/en/

France Business School (fBS) was a French Business School, founded in 2012 by a meanwhile cancelled merger of four French business schools:

l'École supérieure de commerce et management (ESCEM) in Tours, Poitiers and Orléans
l'École supérieure de commerce d'Amiens (ESC Amiens)
l'École supérieure de commerce de Clermont (ESC Clermont)
l'ESC Bretagne Brest

History

fBS was created in a period of merger between French Business Schools in order to achieve "critical size" at an international level.^[1] It was officially announced on 22 May 2012.^[2] fBS was finally announced as the merger of 4 pre-existing schools: l'École supérieure de commerce et de management (ESCEM) in Tours-Poitiers-Orléans, l'École supérieure de commerce d'Amiens (ESC Amiens), l'École supérieure de commerce de Clermont (ESC Clermont), l'École supérieure de commerce Bretagne Brest (ESC Bretagne Brest).

Type of recruitment

At its inception, fBS announced its withdrawal from the existing admission testing procedures (BCE, Ecricome) and introduced a different admission procedure from the traditional competitive entrance examination system by organising recruitment days called Talent Days^[3] in about 20 French cities.

This recruitment targets different profiles:

Students in the 2nd year of the preparatory track
Holders of a 2-year undergraduate degree or currently enrolled as a Bachelor student
Students with a 3-year undergraduate degree
Graduates from an administrative or management degree programme
Foreign students, holders of a Bachelor's degree
Atypical profiles (students with "non-linear" backgrounds)

Location

Other sites have joined the campuses of the founding fBS schools (Amiens, Brest, Clermont-Ferrand, Orléans, Poitiers, Tours):

an associated site: Vannes
sites abroad: Beijing and Shanghai

Notes and references

^ Christine Lagoutte, « À quoi servent les fusions entre business schools ? », Le Figaro étudiant, 22 mai 2012 http://etudiant.lefigaro.fr/orientation/actus-et-conseils/detail/article/a-quoi-servent-les-fusions-entre-business-schools-138
^ "France Business School : un projet ambitieux semé d'embûches - Educpros". letudiant.fr. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
^ "Les Talent Days » FBS Talent Day". france-bs.com. Retrieved 2014-03-07.