HEC Paris or École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris is one of the foremost business schools in France and in Europe. It was created in 1881 by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the model of French Grandes Ecoles

Grandes écoles

The grandes écoles of France are higher education establishments outside the main framework of the French university system. The grandes écoles select students for admission based chiefly on national ranking in competitive written and oral exams...

and has progressively become one of the most selective graduate school

Graduate school

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 in France. It has been consistently ranked the best business school in Europe by the Financial Times

Financial Times

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since the ranking's inception.

HEC is the business school of ParisTech

ParisTech

ParisTech the Paris Institute of Technology is one of the collegiate universities in France. It gathers 11 of the best French engineering schools, covering nearly the whole spectrum of engineering science, and 1 business school, aiming to be of comparable status to the most famous universities of...

, a gathering of top-ranked Grandes Ecoles willing to create a collegiate university by the year 2020.

The school grants a Grande Ecole degree (MSc in Management), pre-experience master’s degrees, an MBA, two EMBA

EMBA

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 and offers a PhD program.