A management test is required for the ESSEC MiF and ESSEC publishes no minimum score for any of them — but the four tests are not interchangeable. The GMAT (including GMAT Online and GMAT Focus Edition) and the GRE are valid for five years, TAGE-MAGE for two, and the CAT for one year and only for Indian applicants. That is a different bar from HEC's MIF, where the test is optional. English proficiency carries hard minimums — TOEFL iBT 95 (or 5/6), IELTS Academic 6.5, Cambridge B2 First 175 or TOEIC 850, none older than two years at the deadline of the round you apply in — but the English test is waived outright for an applicant who has spent at least three years in a higher-education programme completely taught in English, on an official certificate stating that the medium of instruction was English. ESSEC attaches no country condition to that waiver, which is a materially wider door than the schools that grant it only for a degree taken in a majority English-speaking country. ESSEC does not publish a class-average GMAT for this programme.
Admitted students at ESSEC Business School typically score in the Required (GMAT, GRE, TAGE-MAGE or CAT) · no minimum published GMAT range.
| Admitted GMAT range | Required (GMAT, GRE, TAGE-MAGE or CAT) · no minimum published |
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Most European MiM programs, including this one, accept the GRE and often the GMAT Focus Edition or a school-specific test as alternatives, and weigh the whole application — academics, internships, essays, and interview — rather than the score alone.
Frequently asked questions
Is the GMAT required for the ESSEC Master in Finance?
Sources
- ESSEC Business School — Master in Finance (MIF), official programme page. FEE BASIS CHECKED 2026-09-09 · SCOPE CHECKED 2026-09-09 · ENGLISH EVIDENCE CHECKED 2026-09-09. Re-read 2026-09-09 from the page's own embedded content payload rather than its rendered text, which is what settled it: the two cost tables are named 'Cost of the program - MIF 1 YEAR - 2026' and 'Cost of the program - MIF & LUX 2 YEARS - 2026' and both carry the row 'Applicable for Intake 2026'. Their only split is 'Students who are European Union citizens' vs 'Students who are non-European Union citizens' — there is NO campus column and no separate Singapore rate on the page. 1 YEAR (M2): tuition €27,900 / €31,000, registration €2,000 / €2,000, service €2,240 / €2,340, total €32,140 / €35,340. 2 YEARS (M1+M2): tuition year 1 €13,500 / €13,500, tuition year 2 €27,900 / €31,000, registration €2,000 per year, service €2,430 / €2,630, total €47,830 / €51,130. Notes beneath the tables: 'Tuition fee: all taxes included. Registration fee: all taxes included. Service fee: payable in a single instalment and valid for the entire duration of the course. Deposit: €5,000 payable within two weeks from the day of admission and is deducted from the total tuition fee.' Scholarships block: ESSEC Scholarship €10,000, open to all international applicants, awarded during the application procedure with no separate application; ESSEC Singapore Scholarship, up to 100% of tuition, Singaporean citizens only, registration and service fees still payable; CROUS Scholarship, full or partial tuition exemption for the entire duration of studies for students entering in 2026/2027 and subsequent cohorts, with administrative enrollment fees and mandatory contributions still payable. Tests: GMAT/GMAT Online/GMAT Focus and GRE valid 5 years, TAGE-MAGE 2 years, CAT 1 year and captioned 'For Indian applicants'; English tests must not be older than 2 years at the round's deadline; TOEFL iBT 95 or 5/6, IELTS Academic 6.5, Cambridge B2 First 175, TOEIC 850; and 'The English test is not required if the applicant has spent at least 3 years in a higher education program completely taught in English. In that case, please provide us an official certificate with the mention that the medium of instruction is English' — no country condition. Application fee €120 non-refundable, with a separate 'Click to see if you are exempted' link whose rule is not stated on this page. Admissions Calendar table headed 'For 2027 Intake': four rounds, every deadline and results cell 'TBD', column headers 'Online Application Deadline — Submit by 12 noon, Paris time' and 'Admission Results — No later than'. Route rule published on the page: a 3-year Bachelor or Licence 3 completes in 2 years (M1+M2); a 4-year Bachelor or a Master applies directly to the 1-year M2 and selects a track at application. 'You may submit one application per program each academic year, with a maximum of two applications to the same program in total. Once submitted, your campus and track choices are final.' Also: three tracks, English-taught, Cergy and Singapore campuses, '#4 Best Master in Finance FT ranking 2025'. CORRECTION: this profile previously stated a campus split — France €48,000 / €28,000 and Singapore €52,000 / €30,000, each plus €3,000 registration and €2,000 services, totalling €53,000 — and none of those figures appears anywhere in the page's payload. The 'MIF & LUX' table name is CMS-internal and is corroborated nowhere reader-facing, so nothing is asserted from it.) ↗ — ESSEC Business School
- ESSEC Business School — Master in Finance brochure, 20pp (read 2026-09-09 via npm run pdf:text, sha256:1e1f230351ed3eda: intake at the end of August, three tracks, two study trips to London and New York or Hong Kong, Energy and Commodities certificate, typical class profile 65/35 economics-business-finance vs engineering-science, 47% non-French, 30% women, average age 24, and the ESSEC Career Survey 2025 figures — 79% first job before graduation, 64% working outside their country of origin, 68% in an internationally dimensioned role, and the sector split. No cohort size, salary or three-month employment rate is published in it.) ↗ — ESSEC Business School