Grenoble School of Management

GEM is a grande école, a French institution of higher education that is separate from, but parallel and often connected to, the main framework of the French public university system. Grandes écoles are elite academic institutions that admit students through an extremely competitive process, and a significant proportion of their graduates occupy the highest levels of French society.[22][23][24] Similar to Ivy League schools in the United States, Oxbridge in the UK, and C9 League in China, graduation from a grande école is considered the prerequisite credential for any top government, administrative and corporate position in France.[25][26]

The degrees are accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles[27] and awarded by the Ministry of National Education (France).[28] Higher education business degrees in France are organized into three levels thus facilitating international mobility: the Licence / Bachelor's degrees, and the Master's and Doctorat degrees. The Bachelors and the Masters are organized in semesters: 6 for the Bachelors and 4 for the Masters.[29][30] Those levels of study include various "parcours" or paths based on UE (Unités d'enseignement or Modules), each worth a defined number of European credits (ECTS). A student accumulates those credits, which are generally transferable between paths. A Bachelors is awarded once 180 ECTS have been obtained (bac + 3); a Masters is awarded once 120 additional credits have been obtained (bac +5). The highly coveted PGE (Grand Ecole Program) ends with the degree of Master's in Management (MiM)[29][30][31]

Since 2004, Grenoble Ecole de Management is one of the 1% of management schools worldwide with the "Triple crown" accreditations. :[32] Its accreditations are regularly renewed, each for the maximum period of five years.

Scope of business school accreditation for the three main global accrediting bodies AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA

The school's DBA program is one of eleven doctoral programs in the World to be also accredited by AMBA.[33]

The Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) offers an academic program with: the Master in Management (Grande Ecole) taught in the most selective French business schools "écoles supérieures de commerce"; the Bachelor of International Business (BIB) ranked first in France (Le Parisien)[34] and various undergraduate certificates and graduates including : the MBA, EMBA, MIB, and the 13+ Master's level programs MSc. All are delivered in English or French.[35]

The PhD program was launched in 2009, with four majors : marketing, finance, strategy and innovation management, and organisational sciences.[36]

GEM is rated by the Financial Times, The Economist, Shanghai ranking and QS World University rankings as one of the top business schools in continental Europe ("Business administration", "Management", "Economics") and one of the leading business schools worldwide.

The school has been ranked second after HEC for sustainable & ecology development by Le Figaro, FT and Davos's Forum. Grenoble École de Management was recognized as one of[37] the observers of COP26.[38][39][40]

GEM is a member of the Management School Chapter of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles and associated with Mines-Telecom, a group of Engineering and Management graduate schools in France.

Teaching at the Grenoble School of Management is organized by the academic research departments: Management and Technology, Marketing, Accounting, Law and Finance, Computer Science, Management and Behavior, Modern Languages and Foreign Cultures and Applied Learning and is delivered through face-to-face lectures, excursions, projects, and e-learning, in either English or French.

GEM also delivers courses entirely in English with : "100% English Track", "trilingual course", and :"transcontinental course" in agreement with Cambridge (UK), Beihang University (China), McGill (Canada), and Columbia University (USA).

There are many international exchanges of staff and students including a longstanding partnership[41] with Trinity College Dublin, and Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland and with other partners on five continents.

GEM collaborates each year in "Serious Games" with the MIT Sloan School of Management, US.[42] and with MIT GSW for Startup conferences.

The school is involved in the Global Compact program delivered by a United Nations initiative that brings together companies, the business world, and civil society, with ten universal principles relating to human rights, working conditions and the environment.

GEM hosts the student association Altigliss which organizes the World cup Ski and Snowboard competition for students in the Alps.[43]

Grenoble Ecole de Management PPAs of2-16|lc=y}} had over 90 scholars active in research.[44]

Grenoble Ecole de Management conducts research in the following themes:

• Business & Finances
• Economy, society, and organizations
• Marketing
• Technology management
• Strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship

GEM hosts a number of academic and applied research centers,[45] and is part of various national and international research initiatives such as: MEDFORIST, GIANT (CNRS), and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.

GEM Alumni is the association of former students (45,000+) and is represented in several countries (London, Dubai, Hong Kong, San Francisco ...) with local branches, and holds meetings.

The student association GEM Altigliss Challenge organizes (21st edition) each year the student world cup of skiing and snowboarding in Alpine mountains.[46]

The school's location (HQ) is multicultural with 130 nationalities represented. Since 2009 GEM has hosted the annual "Grenoble Geopolitics Festival" to illustrate geopolitical impacts and alliances on economics and financial markets.

As of 2022 GEM had around 7,200 students and 600 teaching staff. [47]