IAE

Institut d'Administration des Entreprises

The French "Instituts d'Administration des Entreprises" or "IAE" are graduate schools of management which are components of French universities with more financial and recruiting freedom....

 Aix-en-Provence, also known as IAE Aix is a graduate school of management under Paul Cézanne University (Université Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th...

 - Aix

Aix-en-Provence

Aix , or Aix-en-Provence to distinguish it from other cities built over hot springs, is a city-commune in southern France, some north of Marseille. It is in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, in the département of Bouches-du-Rhône, of which it is a subprefecture. The population of Aix is...

-Marseille

Marseille

Marseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of...

 III).

The school was founded in 1955 under the French public university system. The school offers graduate level programs in general management, International management, internal audit of organisations, service management, internal and external communications management, management and information technologies, international financial management and applied marketing.

IAE Aix-en-Provence has been awarded the EQUIS

European Quality Improvement System

The European Quality Improvement System is a school accreditation system. It specializes in higher education institutions of management and business administration, run by the European Foundation for Management Development...

 and AMBA

Association of MBAs

The Association of MBAs is a London-based international organization that accredits postgraduate business programs at business schools worldwide. The Association is one of the three main global accreditation bodies in business education and styles itself "the world's impartial authority on...

 accreditations, and ranked by Financial Times. IAE Business School also maintains exchange agreements with several universities across Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

, Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

 and America

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. The École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales (ESSEC) and IAE Aix-en-Provence have a combined doctoral program.

IAE Aix-en-Provence is situated in a small village near Aix-en-Provence known as Puyricard

Puyricard

Puyricard is an agglomeration in the Bouches-du-Rhône département in Provence in the south of France, dependent on the town of Aix-en-Provence, approximately 10 km to the north...

. Majority of the students studying in IAE Aix-en-Provence live in Aix-en-Provence and use the local transport to get to the institute.