Master in Management (Grande École)

Rennes School of Business’s Master in Management is the Programme Grande École degree of a triple-accredited French school that is unusually international: roughly 90% of its faculty are international, more than 100 nationalities study on campus, and nearly all courses are taught in English.¹ ³ It is a two-year master (with a pre-master year for earlier entrants), requires no GMAT, and reports 96% of graduates employed within six months.¹

Overview

Rennes School of Business (founded in 1990) is one of France’s distinctly international Grande École business schools.³ It holds the triple-crown accreditation — AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA — that fewer than 1% of business schools worldwide carry, and it renewed its AACSB accreditation for the maximum five-year term.⁴ Its Master in Management is the school’s flagship Programme Grande École, conferring the Grade de Master (a Level 7 / RNCP 41234 qualification) alongside a Master of Science.¹

What sets the school apart is how thoroughly international it is in practice rather than on paper: Rennes reports that around 90% of its permanent faculty are international, that it hosts 100-plus nationalities with roughly a third of its students from outside France, and that close to 100% of courses are taught in English.³ For an applicant who wants a French Grande École credential without needing French to study, that combination is rare.

Curriculum & Structure

The Master in Management is structured as a two-year master (Master 1 + Master 2), with an optional pre-master (PGE1) year for students entering at the Bac+2 level — so the full track runs two to four years depending on entry point, with 60 ECTS credits per validated year.¹

Master 1 combines a common management core with a choice of five specialisation tracks — Digital Marketing Management; Data Analysis, Intelligence & Security; International Finance; Logistics, Supply Chain & Purchasing; and International Business Negotiation & Geopolitics.¹ Master 2 opens up double-degree options and a broader portfolio of advanced specialisations, and students can take an academic exchange in the final semester drawing on the school’s 330-plus partner universities worldwide.¹ ³ An optional French-language immersion is offered before the programme begins for those who want it.¹ The structure — a fixed core, an early specialisation choice, internships, and an international exchange or double degree — is typical of a strong French grande école MiM; see our explainer on what a grande école is for the wider context.

Application & Deadlines

Admission is by an online application — CV, a recommendation letter and academic transcripts — followed by an online interview with pre-recorded questions, with entry from a Bac+2 (pre-master) or Bac+3 (Master 1) level.¹ French preparatory-class (classe préparatoire) candidates can also enter via the national competitive admissions route common to the grandes écoles. The GMAT is not required.¹ Rennes does require that the file itself is in English: its instruction is to “Submit scanned copies in English of your CV, a letter of recommendation and transcripts encompassing all years of your prior degree”.¹

On an English test, Rennes says nothing — and until 13 September 2026 this page filled the silence in. It read “non-native speakers should expect to demonstrate English proficiency”, which is our sentence, not the school’s: re-read at source that day, the admission section publishes no English-test minimum, no GMAT or GRE requirement and no application deadline, and — the part worth noticing — it names no category of applicant who must provide evidence. Its only stated entry rule is “Entry into Master 1 – PGE2: A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent”, alongside a commitment to “a non-discriminatory admissions policy”.¹ Treat that as an unanswered question rather than as either a requirement or a waiver, and ask the admissions team what they will accept before you book a test. Applications are assessed on a rolling basis for a September start, and places and scholarships are awarded as the cycle fills — so applying early is an advantage.¹

Tuition & Funding

Tuition is charged per year, and Rennes states each figure exactly. For European students it is €15,000 in Master 1 and €16,500 in Master 2 — €31,500 for the two-year master — while non-European students pay €16,000 then €17,000 (€33,000).² Students who enter a year earlier at the pre-master (PGE1) stage pay a further €15,000 for that year, on top of either total.² Rennes publishes Talent and Unframed scholarships at “5000€ discounted from tuition fees”, a Bienvenue en France award at “500€”, and a 15% reduction for Ambassador Scholarship recipients.² Re-read on 5 September 2026, every one of those figures is unchanged from June — but note that Rennes attaches no academic-year label to any of them, so treat them as the school’s current published prices rather than as a quote for a named intake, and confirm yours before you budget. For how this sits against the wider field, see our guide to how much a MiM in Europe costs.

Career Outcomes

Rennes reports that 96% of Master in Management graduates are employed within six months of finishing, in line with the school-wide figure of roughly 93–95% professional integration within six months.¹ ³ The school points to 30,000-plus alumni worldwide and around 20,000 internship offers channelled to students each year as the engine behind those placements.³ Rennes does not publish a single headline graduate salary for this specific cohort on the programme page, so we don’t quote one here — confirm current salary and destination data in the school’s own employment reporting. For the national picture, see our read on MiM career outcomes in France and which industries hire European MiM graduates.

Reputation

A triple-crown accreditation, a Financial Times standing in the world’s top 100 business schools, a faculty that is roughly 90% international and a campus of 100-plus nationalities place Rennes among France’s more genuinely international grandes écoles — a credible choice for an applicant who wants a French Grande École MiM taught in English. We hold its FT Masters in Management world position as “global top 100” rather than quoting a precise number, because a current one is not primary-source verified for this programme. For the wider context, weigh Rennes against other French and European options on the best MiM in France guide, the MiM in France hub and the full rankings, and read whether a MiM is worth it in 2026, how to build a MiM profile and MiM vs MBA as you decide.