Concept
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 French private business school grande école and a member of the French Conférence des grandes écoles (CGE). The conférence is the French equivalent to the Ivy League schools in the United States, Oxbridge in the United Kingdom, the C9 League (九校联盟) in China, or the Imperial Universities in Japan. The school has French, European and international campuses in Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Chambéry, Beaune, London, Monaco, Geneva, Lausanne, Montreux, Madrid, Barcelona, Abidjan and Shanghai as well as San Francisco. It was previously called the INSEEC Business School until its renaming in 2019. Founded in 1975 by José Soubiran in Bordeaux, the INSEEC School of Business and Economics grew gradually by acquiring other academic institutions in business administration, economics, engineering, design, social and political science in France and abroad. INSEEC Grande Ecole is the founding school of the French private university INSEEC U now called OMNES Education. The Grande Ecole INSEEC School of Business & Economics grew at a fast pace, and especially internationally, underpinned by Career Education Corporation until October 24, 2013. From a local School founded and based in Bordeaux, it has developed tiers with the American Education System via its Franco-American Business School: the MBA Institute - American BBA INSEEC Campus in Paris, which prepares French and International Students for an MBA in the United States, enabling them to obtain a diploma at the end, recognised both in Europe and in the US. Strong bounds have been created with several American Universities such as: Emory (Atlanta), Indiana University of Pennsylvania or San Francisco State University allowing students to dive into American Campuses.