French business schools outperform their European peers with the best masters programmes and executive education courses across the continent, according to the 2020 Financial Times ranking.
Four institutions in and around Paris — HEC Paris, Insead, Essec and ESCP — are all in the top 10 of the FT’s annual assessment of 90 European business schools, which includes a total of 22 French schools.
Eloïc Peyrache, interim dean at top-ranked HEC Paris, said one explanation for its performance was investment in its MBA, which is also now highly ranked, with a growing appeal to international students and faculty. “We’ve become global partners of companies which come to . . . recruit from us worldwide,” he added.