Learn About IAE Aix
Dedicated to postgraduate management education and research since 1955, IAE Aix Graduate School of Management is the first public business school in France. EQUIS accredited since 1999, IAE Aix is the business school of Aix-Marseilles University, the largest University in France and one of the oldest Universities in Europe. The 2011 Financial Times ranking has confirmed IAE Aix as one of the leading business school in Europe.
- Professor Patrick Rousseau, Dean of the IAE Aix
The mission of IAE Aix is two-fold: it is first, to create, diffuse and share management knowledge, and second, to train people to be responsible managers and provide them with skills to manage effectively in a diverse corporate and ever-changing global environment.
The vision of IAE Aix is to develop and nurture a center for intellectual excellence whose influence radiates out nationally and internationally. This vision is led by a specific set of values that drive our behaviors at IAE Aix: respect of diversity, pedagogical innovation, entrepreneurial spirit stimulation, and constant encouragement towards autonomy and collaboration.
IAE Aix proposes MSc in Management, MBAs and a doctoral programme. Our programmes are all AMBA accredited. They are either bilingual French-English, or full English like our MBAs. IAE Aix international programmes meet the changing business world's needs. Our innovative and hands-on pedagogy using action learning methods, simulations and real business scenario analysis, case studies, integrative work, business games and exchange with business executives make our graduates excellent professionals.
800 participants each year, including 150 executives, 80 PhD students are trained at IAE Aix to have a strong strategic and intercultural approach to business. Over 50 nationalities are represented among our participants at IAE Aix.