ESSEC Business School is an international higher education institution located in France (Cergy-Pontoise and La Défense in the Paris area), Singapore and Morocco.
Founded in 1907, ESSEC Business School is one of the most selective French \"Grandes écoles\" and referred in France as one of the \"trois Parisiennes\" (three Parisians), together with ESCP and HEC Paris. ESSEC Business School is one of the 76 schools in the world to have obtained the triple accreditation of AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA. ESSEC is the first European business school to obtain AACSB accreditation.
ESSEC's flagship program, the Master of Science in Management (Grande Ecole), was ranked 3rd worldwide by the Financial Times in 2016 for the 3rd year in a row and ESSEC's Master in Finance was also ranked 3rd worldwide by the Financial Times in 2017.