Master in Management — Grande École

EDHEC Business School placed 14th worldwide in the Financial Times Masters in Management 2025 ranking — a step down from the 4th-place finish it recorded in the FT 2024 edition, but still comfortably inside the global top fifteen.⁵⁷ The Master in Management is EDHEC’s flagship grande école degree: a two-year, English-taught programme organised around four specialised tracks and a year of professional immersion, run from a school founded in Lille in 1906 and known for unusually close ties to industry.¹⁴

Overview

EDHEC’s Master in Management is structured as two academic years plus a dedicated professional immersion year, which means the calendar length of the degree is closer to three years than two while the taught academic component runs 24 months.¹ The programme is delivered entirely in English and is open, via direct application, to holders of a non-French undergraduate degree; French prépa and degree holders enter through the Concours AST2 route instead.³

The defining design choice is specialisation by track. Rather than a single generalist curriculum, EDHEC asks applicants to choose among four routes from the outset: Business Management, Finance, Data Science & AI for Business, and the Global MiM (GETT) double degree.¹² The first three share the same headline tuition and a common managerial core; the Global MiM is a distinct, higher-priced international track. This profile is built around the Business Management track, the broadest of the four and the closest analogue to a classic generalist MiM.

Curriculum & Tracks

The Business Management track combines a managerial core — strategy, marketing, finance, operations, organisational behaviour — with electives that let students angle towards a sector or function. Across all four tracks, EDHEC leans heavily on applied learning: live company projects, a strong emphasis on career services, and the professional immersion year, during which students take internships or other work placements to test a field before committing to it.¹

The Finance track is the school’s best-known specialisation and feeds EDHEC’s reputation in asset management and markets; it carries an option to add an MSc in Climate Change & Sustainable Finance for a supplement.² The Data Science & AI for Business track targets the analytics-and-technology end of management, and the Global MiM (GETT) is a multi-campus, multi-degree route designed for students who want an explicitly international footprint. Teaching is spread across the Lille, Nice, and Paris campuses and partner schools abroad.¹²

Class Profile

The Class of 2024 is 55% women with an average entry age of 22 — a notably young intake, consistent with the French grande école model of admitting students directly after an undergraduate degree or a preparatory year.⁹ EDHEC describes its community as speaking 45 languages. Programme-level headcount and international-student percentages are not published for the MiM cohort separately, so those figures are omitted here. Applicants come predominantly from business, economics, engineering, and quantitative backgrounds, with the Finance and Data Science tracks skewing more technical than the Business Management route.¹

Application & Deadlines

The application for non-French degree holders is made directly through EDHEC’s online platform and is assessed on a rolling basis; the school advises applying early, as places fill across the cycle rather than at a single cut-off.³ Applications open in September and run through to a final deadline the following June — for the September 2026 intake, the Business Management track closed on 26 June 2026 (the Finance track a little earlier).⁸ The equivalent dates for the September 2027 intake are normally published in autumn 2026 and were not yet available at the time of writing. The file includes academic transcripts, proof of English proficiency, a CV, a motivation letter, and two recommendation letters, followed by an online interview with the programme team.³

A competitive standardised-test score is expected: EDHEC accepts the GMAT, GRE, TAGE-MAGE, and CAT. Native English speakers, and applicants whose degree was taught in English, can be exempt from the English-language test.³ Because EDHEC runs rolling admissions rather than a fixed set of numbered rounds, the practical advice is the usual one — apply in the earlier part of the cycle for the widest choice of seats and the best scholarship visibility.

Tuition, Scholarships & Funding

For the 2026 intake, EDHEC’s indicative tuition (before scholarships) is €44,700 for EU students and €51,250 for non-EU students on the Business Management, Finance, and Data Science & AI tracks; the Finance track adds a €4,600 supplement if the MSc in Climate Change & Sustainable Finance is taken, and the Global MiM (GETT) is priced higher at €66,700–€75,180.² These are indicative figures and EDHEC notes they may vary by intake year.

The payment mechanics are specific: a €5,000 deposit is due by card before enrolment, after which students choose between a single full payment — which may carry a tuition discount — or 44 monthly instalments by direct debit, with non-European students typically paying by bank transfer.² Tuition covers career services and mentorship, campus facilities, the learning centre and academic databases, and access to exchanges and double degrees.² EDHEC states that applicants are automatically considered for available scholarships, so there is no separate scholarship application gate at the point of admission.²

Career Outcomes

The Financial Times 2025 ranking reports a weighted three-year salary of approximately US $109,000 for the EDHEC MiM.⁵ EDHEC’s own Class of 2024 placement data breaks down destinations by function rather than industry sector: Consulting leads at 31%, followed by Marketing & Communication (21%), Business Development & Sales (15%), and Finance (14%).⁹ The school reports that 70% of roles have an international dimension and that 88% of graduates are placed in Europe, with APAC accounting for most of the remainder.⁹ Named recruiters include Accenture, Amazon, Capgemini Invent, Deloitte, EY, Nike, KPMG, PwC, Salesforce, Unilever, and Wavestone.⁹ The school’s positioning around corporate partnerships and a long-running career-services operation is central to how it markets the degree, and the professional immersion year is explicitly framed as a way for students to convert internships into full-time offers.¹

Campus & Life

EDHEC was founded in Lille in 1906 by a group of industrialists, and Lille remains the historic heart of the school; the Nice campus, on the Côte d’Azur, is the second main base, with a Paris presence as well.⁴ The multi-campus structure is part of the pitch — students on several tracks move between locations — and the school emphasises an entrepreneurial, internationally connected community across all of its programmes.¹⁴

For readers weighing France specifically as a study destination, our blog covers the practical trade-offs in whether France is right for your studies, the pros and cons of a master’s in France, and how France compares with the US for a MiM. For the broader question of whether the degree pays off, see is a MiM worth it in 2026.