HEC PARIS

HEC Paris, founded in 1881 by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is one of France’s oldest élite higher education Grandes Ecoles.

Throughout its 130-year history, HEC Paris has attracted talented, innovative, entrepreneurial, ambitious and open-minded individuals.

Having an IMPACT, not only on business but on society as a whole, is the primary vocation of HEC Paris. To achieve this, our school must draw on its three priceless assets, which are also its pillars of excellence: research, education and action. The three-part motto, THINK, TEACH, ACT which is at the heart of HEC's mission.

The HEC Paris community is united around five fundamental and shared values: excellence, curiosity, entrepreneurial spirit, responsibility and diversity.

The School’s brand campaign sets out with a vision, "Tomorrow is Our Business", which is anchored in business and the future. The economic world has never evolved as quickly and as deeply as today. Since HEC trains the leaders of tomorrow’s business, the school is ideally placed to reinvent and direct this unprecedented transformation.

HEC Paris offers a complete and unique range of business programmes for the most talented students and leaders from around the world. There are over 4,500 participants enrolled in our degree programmes, 500 participants in the Summer School, and 8,000 participants in the Executive Education programmes every year.

HEC Paris has one of the largest campuses in Europe. Its academic, leisure and sports facilities offer students and staff the holistic life you would expect from a world-class institution. The school also provides a perfect balance between the rural and urban worlds. It is located on the Paris-Saclay plateau hosting one of the world’s largest research-education-technology hubs.

The 340-acre wooded campus is not only close to Paris and Versailles by train, but also a short drive from La Défense, the biggest business district in Europe where many multinational companies have set up headquarters.