Omnes Education, formerly INSEEC U. (french: link=no, INSEEC U.) is a
private university
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in France, with French, European and international campuses in Paris,
Bordeaux
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,
Lyon
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,
Chambéry
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, London,
Monaco
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, Geneva,
Abidjan
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and Shanghai as well as San Francisco.
It encompasses 16 Schools, 10 campuses worldwide, 28,000 students (30% of foreign students), over 100,000 alumni, 345 faculty members, 800 lecturers, 115 majors, 515 partner universities, 1,500 partner companies, 5000 executive education participants (known in French as ''intervenants'') who teach alongside their career.
OMNES Education provides
bachelor's degree
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,
Grande Ecole
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Places
* Grande, Germany, a municipality in Germany
* Grande Communications, a telecommunications firm based in Texas
* Grande-Rivière (disambiguation)
*Arr ...
and
non-Grande Ecole Master's degrees,
MBAs,
PhDs
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and Diploma.
It is a member of the
Union of Independent Grandes Écoles
The Union of Independent Grandes Écoles (french: Union des grandes écoles indépendantes, UGEI) is an association of French private ''grandes écoles'' formed in 1993.
Its goal, according to its founders, is to bring together engineering ''gran ...
and of the
Conférence des grandes écoles (CGE) since 2009,
INSEEC Business School
The INSEEC School of Business and Economics (French pronunciation: /ɪnsɛk/; French meaning of the acronym INSEEC: ''Institut des Hautes Études Economiques et Commerciales''; English: Institute of Higher Studies in Economics and Commerce) is a F ...
, part of OMNES Education is
AMBA
Amba or AMBA may refer to:
Title
* Amba Hor, alternative name for Abhor and Mehraela, Christian martyrs
* Amba Sada, also known as Psote, Christian bishop and martyr in Upper Egypt
Given name
* Amba, the traditional first name given to the first ...
-accredited since 2017.
European Business School Paris
European Business School Paris (also known as EBS Paris) is a private business school located in Paris, France, part of INSEEC U.
History
Opened in 1967, EBS Paris has had a pioneering influence on the European model of education, being the f ...
, part of OMNES Education is a member of the
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
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(AACSB).
Omnes is a for-profit organisation owned by
private equity
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firm
Cinven
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.
History
In 2010, the INSEEC Group purchases the
International University of Monaco
Founded in 1986, the International University of Monaco (IUM) (french: Université internationale de Monaco) is located in the Monaco, Principality of Monaco. It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in business specialized in finance, market ...
. INSEEC starts a partnership with
Arts et Métiers ParisTech
Arts et Métiers ParisTech is a French engineering and research institute of higher education. It is a '' grande école'', recognized for leading in the fields of mechanics and industrialization. Founded in 1780, it is among the oldest French in ...
(ENSAM Engineering School).

In 2011, INSEEC starts a tripartite agreement with
Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University (; abbr. THU) is a national public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education.
The university is a member of the C9 League, Double First Class University Plan, Projec ...
,
Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (, ''UVSQ'') is a French public university created in 1991, located in the department of Yvelines and, since 2002, in Hauts-de-Seine. It is a constituent university of the federal Paris-Saclay Un ...
In 2012, the INSEEC Group buys the Consular Business School of Chambéry (
ESC Chambéry
ESC may refer to:
Education
* Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, a type of French business school
* Edison State College, now Florida SouthWestern State College
* Empire State College of the State University of New York
* English Subject Centre, a ...
) to create INSEEC Alpes Savoie Business School, an additional campus in the Alps. The incubant on-campus students' consulting association: INSEEC Conseil becomes officially
''Junior Enterprise''-accredited, after being bestowed this prestigious label upon by the French National Confederation of
''Junior Enterprises''.
In 2013,
Career Education Corporation
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cedes its shares of the INSEEC Group.
Apax Partners
Apax Partners LLP is a British private equity firm, headquartered in London, England. The company also operates out of six other offices in New York, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Tel Aviv, Munich and Shanghai. As of December 2017, the firm, including its ...
and
BPI France BPI may refer to:
In banking:
*Banca Popolare Italiana, an Italian bank merged into Banco Popolare
* Banco Português de Investimento, a Portuguese bank
* Bank of the Philippine Islands, the oldest bank in the Philippines
* Bpifrance, a French ban ...
acquires the INSEEC Group, making INSEEC's shareholders fully French again.
In 2014, CREA Geneva was integrated into the INSEEC group. That year also saw the opening of the Luxury Business Institute (LBI) in Shanghai.
In 2015, the ECE (''Ecole de Commerce Européenne''): the European School of Business becomes the BBA INSEEC – BBA as for Business
Bachelor
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Etymol ...
, a 4-year American Bachelor curriculum. Establishment the same year of a Strategy Cluster in Lyon, specialised in
Strategic management
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.
In 2016, INSEEC was established in San Francisco and acquired the French schools of the
Lauréate International Group, (
EBS,
ESCE, ECE, IFG and the HEIP).
In 2017, the INSEEC Group is renamed INSEEC U.
The
Grande Ecole
Grande means "large" or "great" in many of the Romance languages. It may also refer to:
Places
* Grande, Germany, a municipality in Germany
* Grande Communications, a telecommunications firm based in Texas
* Grande-Rivière (disambiguation)
*Arr ...
INSEEC Business School
The INSEEC School of Business and Economics (French pronunciation: /ɪnsɛk/; French meaning of the acronym INSEEC: ''Institut des Hautes Études Economiques et Commerciales''; English: Institute of Higher Studies in Economics and Commerce) is a F ...
becomes INSEEC School of Business and Economics. INSEEC acquires HEIP (Hautes Etudes Internationales et Politiques – part of INSEEC U.), a Higher Education Institute specialised in Political Sciences, Diplomacy and International Relations established since 1899, with campuses in Paris, London and Lyon.
In 2018, HEIP, Hautes Etudes Internationales et Politiques and part of INSEEC U. signs an agreement with
McQuarie University in Sydney.
In January 2019, the INSEEC U. was valued at nearly one billion euros. In March 2019, the INSEEC group, was purchased by British investment fund
Cinven
Cinven is a global private equity firm founded in 1977, with offices in nine international locations in Guernsey, London, New York, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, Luxembourg, Madrid, and Hong Kong that acquires Europe and United States based corporat ...
, for a valuation of around 800 million euros.
On 2 December 2019, INSEEC U. opened a campus of IFG, one of the group's schools, in
Ivory Coast
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.
In 2020, INSEEC U. (INSEEC BS, EBS, ESCE) becomes financially the strongest Business School in France.
In 2021, INSEEC U. rebranded to OMNES Education as part of a €100 million investment into the company over a 5-year period.
Organisation and administration
INSEEC U. welcomed 22,000 students in 2017 (they were 10,000 in 2010
); 8,000 managers and employees in continuing education; more than 80,000 alumni; 370 permanent professors and 150 researchers/professors. There are 4 campuses in France (Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Chambéry), 5 campuses abroad (Geneva, Monaco, London, San Francisco, Shanghai) and more than 340 international academic partners, with a global annual budget of €220M in 201

OMNES Education proposes a
Grande Ecole
Grande means "large" or "great" in many of the Romance languages. It may also refer to:
Places
* Grande, Germany, a municipality in Germany
* Grande Communications, a telecommunications firm based in Texas
* Grande-Rivière (disambiguation)
*Arr ...
curriculum in General Management with elective classes available as part of the
Grande Ecole
Grande means "large" or "great" in many of the Romance languages. It may also refer to:
Places
* Grande, Germany, a municipality in Germany
* Grande Communications, a telecommunications firm based in Texas
* Grande-Rivière (disambiguation)
*Arr ...
Programme and starting from the first year of the
Grande Ecole
Grande means "large" or "great" in many of the Romance languages. It may also refer to:
Places
* Grande, Germany, a municipality in Germany
* Grande Communications, a telecommunications firm based in Texas
* Grande-Rivière (disambiguation)
*Arr ...
Master's Degree. For more specialised and non-
Grande Ecole
Grande means "large" or "great" in many of the Romance languages. It may also refer to:
Places
* Grande, Germany, a municipality in Germany
* Grande Communications, a telecommunications firm based in Texas
* Grande-Rivière (disambiguation)
*Arr ...
curricula, INSEEC U. provides master's degrees and MBAs in Wine and Spirits, Digital Media, Real Estate, Health Management, Luxury Management, Sports, Engineering, Journalism and Political Sciences. This incremental strategy has been possible via the numerous acquisitions of the group since its establishment in 1975.
"Grandes Écoles" and Engineering Schools
Other Higher Education Institutes & Schools
Research programmes
University rankings
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, is a university ranking business by the French consulting company and rating agency SMBG specialized in Higher Education. In terms of Dean's recommendation, INSEEC scores from 51 to 84‰ and cumulates "three Eduniversal palms". INSEEC has been thus bestowed the title "Excellent Business School" by Eduniversal.
Deans' recommendation of the INSEEC School of Business and Economics from 2011 until 2019, as part of the Eduniversal ranking done yearly by SMBG, a French
consultancy
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Consulting servic ...
.
INSEEC ranked 7th out of 60 universities in a ranking from Canévet & Associates, a French
consultancy
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Consulting servic ...
. The main criterium of the ranking was the employability of alumni in the top 25 most attractive companies in France.
The
Grande Ecole
Grande means "large" or "great" in many of the Romance languages. It may also refer to:
Places
* Grande, Germany, a municipality in Germany
* Grande Communications, a telecommunications firm based in Texas
* Grande-Rivière (disambiguation)
*Arr ...
INSEEC School of Business & Economics ranked 7th out of 60 in the ranking: "Best Universities to work in one of the 25 most attractive companies in France."
Notable alumni
*
Michel Landel Michel Landel was born on 7 November 1951 in Meknes, Morocco. He was the CEO, Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Sodexo until January 2018.
Biography
After graduating from the European Business School, Michel Landel worked for C ...
, CEO of
Sodexo
Sodexo (formerly Sodexho Alliance) is a French food services and facilities management company headquartered in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux. It has 412,088 employees as of 2021, operates in 55 countries and serves 100 million cust ...
until January 2018
*
Jacques-Antoine Granjon
Jacques-Antoine Granjon born in Marseille (France) on 9 August 1962 in Marseille, is a French entrepreneur and CEO of Veepee.
Biography
Education
Jacques-Antoine Granjon graduated from the European Business School (EBS) and also studied at ...
, French entrepreneur and CEO
*
Arthur Sadoun
Arthur Sadoun (born 23 May 1971) is a French businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of Publicis Groupe, the world's third largest advertising and PR group.
Early life and education
Sadoun was born in Dourdan, France in 1971 to a well-off famil ...
, French businessman, Chairman & CEO
Publicis
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After 1945, the little-known Paris ...
Group since June 2017
*
Christophe Blanchet
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, Politician and Deputy at the
French National Assembly
*Taha Essou, Famous blogger
See also
*
List of private universities in France
References
External links
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Private universities and colleges in France