A typical ESSEC Business School MiM cohort is around 800 students , drawn from 50 nationalities.
| Class size | 800 |
|---|---|
| Average age | 23 |
| International | 35% |
| Female | 50% |
| Average GMAT | 660 |
| Nationalities | 50 |
Frequently asked questions
How does ESSEC compare with HEC Paris?
ESSEC and HEC are both top-tier French grande école programs and compete for the same applicant pool. HEC sits at FT rank 2 and QS rank 1; ESSEC at FT rank 10 and QS rank 3. HEC is larger (~400 per cohort vs ESSEC's 800 across the full program), more international (40% vs 35%), and slightly stronger in finance and consulting placement. ESSEC has the edge in luxury management, multi-campus mobility (Singapore and Rabat), and structural flexibility. Our HEC vs ESSEC piece walks through the trade-offs in detail.
When did ESSEC launch the international MiM in English?
ESSEC has run the Grande École since 1907 in French. The fully English-language international pathway was added in the late 2000s and is now the default channel for non-French applicants. The Singapore and Rabat campuses, opened in 2005 and 2017 respectively, brought further internationalisation and now host meaningful shares of the MiM cohort each year.
Sources
- ESSEC — Master in Management Grande École (NOTE: this URL 404s as of 2026-09-03; ESSEC moved the Grande École MiM under /en/program/master-in-management-international/ and /en/pages/mim-master-in-management/, both of which return 200. Retained only as the provenance of figures read before the move) ↗ — ESSEC Business School
- ESSEC — MiM Grande École admissions calendar (re-checked: page still shows the 2026-intake rounds, R1 Oct 2 2025 → R4 Apr 9 2026; the 2027-intake calendar is still not posted) ↗ — ESSEC Business School
- ESSEC — MIM International pathway, Financing tab (re-read 2026-09-03 and the fee table RECOVERED: the amounts are not rendered as page text but ship in the page source as an embedded JSON payload, so the tables 'Tuitions fees - MIM AST INTENSIVE TRACK - 2026' and 'Tuitions fees - MIM AST FLEXIBLE TRACK - 2026' are readable without a browser. Intensive: tuition EUR 38,000/yr, registration EUR 2,000/yr, service fee EUR 2,170 EU / EUR 2,270 non-EU, 'Total cost of the program' EUR 42,170 / EUR 42,270. Flexible: tuition EUR 21,500 EU / EUR 25,300 non-EU per year, registration EUR 2,000/yr, service fee EUR 2,440 / EUR 2,640, total EUR 49,440 / EUR 57,240. Both tables headed 'Applicable for Intake 2026'; no Intake 2027 table published. Also: EUR 180 non-refundable application fee, waived for B2M Alliance Passport holders; EUR 6,000 deposit within two weeks of admission, EUR 500 for CROUS / Cap ESSEC scholarship recipients, deducted from tuition. Confirmed by a second cache-busted fetch the same day) ↗ — ESSEC Business School
- ESSEC — MIM official overview ↗ — ESSEC Business School
- ESSEC Alumni ↗ — ESSEC Business School
- Financial Times — Masters in Management 2025 ↗ — Financial Times
- QS Business Masters Rankings: Management 2026 ↗ — QS Quacquarelli Symonds
- ESSEC — Centre de Formation d'Apprentis, Apprentissage et MiM Grande Ecole. ALTERNANCE CHECKED 2026-09-07 (P44): the apprenticeship runs across the 2nd and 3rd years of the Master cycle, starting at the earliest in January of the 1st year; 'Avoir moins de 30 ans à la date de début du contrat'; 'Avoir validé ou être en cours de validation de minimum 3 UV de gestion (hors cours de langue)'; 'Pour les étudiants internationaux (hors UE), il peut être nécessaire d'avoir obtenu au préalable une autorisation de travail'; and 'Les frais de scolarité sont pris en charge par l'entreprise pendant la durée du contrat'. No French-language level is published on this page, unlike ESCP's ↗ — ESSEC Business School