Master in Management – Programme Grande École

NEOMA Business School’s Master in Management — its flagship Grande École programme — placed 30th worldwide in the Financial Times Masters in Management 2025, climbing from 34th the previous year.² Delivered across NEOMA’s Reims and Rouen campuses, the programme reports a 100% employment rate at three months and an FT weighted three-year salary of about US$80,910.¹ ⁵

Overview

NEOMA was formed in 2013 from the merger of Reims Management School and Rouen Business School, and is one of France’s larger Grande École business schools.⁴ Its Master in Management (Programme Grande École) is triple-crown accredited — AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA — a status held by only a small share of business schools worldwide.⁴ For a wider view of whether the credential fits your goals, see our guide on whether a MiM is worth it in 2026.

Curriculum & Structure

The multi-year programme combines a management core with a chosen major and extensive international mobility.¹ Specialisations span international business and management, finance — including CFA- and FRM-aligned expertise tracks — and entrepreneurship, and second-year students can choose a NEOMA MSc or one of an unusually wide set of international double degrees with partner universities.¹ English-track delivery makes the cohort genuinely cross-border.

Application & Deadlines

The Master in Management admits for both a September and a January start, on a rolling basis rather than fixed competitive rounds.¹ No GMAT is required — a GMAT or GRE is merely recommended for the English track, and the TAGE MAGE for the French track.³ International applicants should apply early for visa processing; see how to build a MiM profile.

Tuition & Funding

Tuition is €36,000 for the full Grande École programme — the same for all nationalities — plus a roughly €500 annual administrative fee and a €100 application fee.³ NEOMA awards merit scholarships that cover part of the fee for strong candidates, so the all-in cost for an FT-top-30, triple-crown Grande École is mid-range by French standards.

One statutory charge sits outside all of that, and NEOMA’s English financing page does not mention it: France’s CVEC student-life contribution, €105 for 2026-2027, owed by every student enrolled in initial training at a French higher-education institution — private grande école included — and payable before you can complete administrative enrolment.⁹ NEOMA’s own downloadable Guide du financement does name the CVEC, but that document is a 2025/2026 edition quoting €100, so take the amount from the government site rather than from the guide.⁷ It is a small sum next to €36,000; it is also compulsory, and it is not in the €36,000.

The sticker is also not what a French grant-holder pays. NEOMA publishes a dated 2026/2027 sheet of tuition reductions keyed to the applicant’s CROUS grant level.⁶ For a student entering the Grande École programme through the ECRICOME TREMPLIN / D1-D2 / scientific route — the parallel-admissions door most MiM entrants with a prior degree use — the first-year reduction runs €500 at échelon 0bis, 1 and 2, €2,500 at 3, €3,200 at 4, €6,400 at 5, €9,600 at 6 and 100% of tuition at échelon 7; in the second and third years the same ladder starts at €250 and €1,250 before converging on the same €3,200 / €6,400 / €9,600 / 100%.⁶ Students admitted from an ECG or ECT prépa are treated slightly more generously in the middle of the scale (50% at échelon 4, 100% from 5).⁶

There is also a discount that has nothing to do with your finances and everything to do with your calendar. NEOMA runs an Early Bird tuition discount of up to €3,500 on the Master in Management, and it is “available to candidates who are admitted and enrolled by 31 January” — so it rewards accepting a place early, not applying early, and the two are different decisions.⁸ The Master in Management sits in NEOMA’s top discount band alongside the Global BBA and the MSc International Finance; other full-time MSc programmes are capped at €2,000 and the International Master in Luxury Management is excluded.⁸ Read against the €36,000 sticker that is about a 10% reduction for a decision most applicants make anyway — but it is only worth having if a January admission is realistic for your round, which is why it belongs in your round choice rather than in your budget afterwards.

Two caveats before anyone plans around that table. The reductions apply “upon presentation of a valid final grant notification from the CROUS for the relevant academic year”, and a CROUS grant is a French means-tested award a newly-arrived international student will not normally hold — so for most readers of this profile the operative figure is the full €36,000, and NEOMA’s separate awards for international applicants (up to €10,500, limited in number and “applied as a reduction in tuition fees”) are the relevant route.⁶ ⁸ Those are five named awards rather than one pot, and the page publishes each ceiling: Excellence, Shape the Future and Achievement at up to €4,000 each, High Calibre at up to €3,000 and Welcome to France at up to €2,000.⁸ The individual ceilings sum to more than the €10,500 headline, and NEOMA does not publish a stacking rule for them — so read €10,500 as the practical cap on what one applicant receives and ask the school which combinations it actually awards, rather than adding the five together. And the older Guide du financement carries a different reduction table from the 2026/2027 sheet; where the two disagree, the dated sheet is the current one.⁶ ⁷

Career Outcomes

The Financial Times 2025 weighted three-year salary is about US$80,910, measured three years after graduation.⁵ NEOMA reports its own outcomes on a different basis — employment within six months and under a month on average to a first role — which is not directly comparable to the FT three-month figure.¹ For early-career context, see our career learnings from a MiM.

Campus & Reputation

NEOMA’s home cities of Reims and Rouen sit within easy reach of Paris, and the school’s scale, triple-crown standing and deep corporate network make the Master in Management a well-recognised route into French and international management careers.⁴ For how a MiM compares with an MBA, see our piece on MiM versus MBA.