International Business School in France

La Rochelle Business School:
La Rochelle Business School is a leading business school situated in La Rochelle, a city on the western coast of France. As a recognised French Grande Ecole specialising in business and management, the mission of La Rochelle Business School is to offer undergraduate, post-graduate & executive degree programs to both French and international students in English and / or French. We aim to enable students to acquire the necessary technical, interpersonal and cultural skills to increase their employability by providing them with support in their professional and personal projects.

La Rochelle Business School currently has 96 international partners in 35 different countries around the world and 14 partner universities that offer double degrees in Germany, Great Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, China and Mexico. Each year, the school welcomes 400 international students, mostly from our partner universities. Our aim is to increase this figure considerably in the next 3 to 5 years.

Accreditations:
La Rochelle Business School is a member of AASCB International (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) and is eligible for the accreditation it offers.

International Recognition:
Since February 2011, two of the school’s programmes have been recognised by the EPAS: the Bachelor in International Business and Master in Management (ESC) programmes. No more than two programmes can be accredited in each round of evaluations, so this is a very encouraging double success for the school, which can now offer these students a programme that is balanced, coherent, international and compliant with demanding specifications.

The objective of the EPAS is to evaluate and accredit (for a maximum duration of five years) the best business and management programmes on offer (undergraduate and Bachelor degrees, Masters or Doctorates), compare them against international standards and ultimately work towards their improvement.

Our mission is to enable students and trainees to gain the skills necessary to increase their employability, to enable companies to recruit the staff they need for their development and adapt their managers' skills in response to industry changes.

We also aim to develop knowledge in the field of management and share these findings with the academic and business worlds, and to contribute to the region's renown, both nationally and internationally, by mobilising our networks and areas of expertise.

Academic Programmes:
We offer a wide range of undergraduate, post-graduate and executive degree programmes through English and French:

Programmes 100%  in English include:
- Bachelor's Degree in International Business
- Bachelor's Degree in Tourism Management
- Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Tourism Management
- Master's Degree in Management

Additional academic programmes include:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Studies
- Master's Degrees in Business:  These are designed to meet the needs of a highly diversified audience (French & foreign students)

At La Rochelle Business School, we train well-rounded managers with confirmed academic skills and unique experience in their sector. Our pedagogical methods are designed not only to prepare students for their future jobs, but also to ensure employability throughout their careers by providing them with solid fundamentals in management and an aptitude for learning new skills.

Our pedagogical methods are based on three dimensions that ensure a high-level of training:

* Excellence in teaching and reinforced academic standards in the fundamentals of management.
* Continuous development of our faculty through academic and pedagogical research.
* Constantly listening to firms, both large and small, in France and abroad.

School Ranking:
- 6th for our Bachelor programmes in the 2011 Le Figaro rankings of the best business schools.
- 7th for our Bachelor in International Business in the ‘4-year Bachelor programme’ category of the 2011 Le Point rankings.
- 25th in the 2011 L’Etudiant magazine’s business school rankings (up 5 places from 2010).
- 8th for our Grande Ecole programme in the ‘School with the highest value added’ category of the 2011 Le Point rankings (up 6 places from 2010).
- 29th in the 2011 Le Point overall rankings for French Grandes Ecoles in management studies.

The increasing number of courses available in English offers greater access to overseas students. La Rochelle Business School currently has 400 international students from 26 different countries, out of a total student body of 2,600. Our aim is for 25% of our students to be international by 2014. The presence of overseas students within the school encourages intercultural exchanges and greater openness to the rest of the world.

La Rochelle has a long tradition of welcoming overseas students. On campus, cultural diversity is an everyday reality; courses and extracurricular activities are shared between French students and international students.

The International Office is one of the many associations at La Rochelle Business School. Essentially dedicated to accompanying overseas students (integration, help with administrative procedures, housing, etc.), the IO also organises meetings between French and international students through social evenings and sponsorships and helps organise International Week.