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One of the world's best business schools, HEC Paris is a leader in research and education in management sciences. We offer a unique portfolio of programs designed for a carefully selected student body.

Explore the diversity and richness of our school and all it has to offer.

KEY FACTS

4,500

Students in degree programs

8,000

Participants in Executive Education programs

125

Academic partners

76,000

Alumni

173 

Permanent faculty members

135

Nationalities represented

Academic Programs

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

Master's Programs

Students from all backgrounds benefit from a long tradition of academic excellence at HEC Paris. Both our Grande Ecole and Specialized Masters programs are designed to transform outstanding potential into exceptional success.

MBA PROGRAMS

The HEC Paris MBAs are a transformational learning experience, specifically designed to meet the needs and challenges of managers and executives coming from highly diverse professional and cultural backgrounds.

PhD program

HEC's PhD program accompanies future academics in 8 areas: Accounting & Management Control, Economics & Decision Sciences, Finance, Law and Regulation, Management & Human Resources, Marketing, Information Systems & Operations Management, and Strategy...

Executive Education

Our mission is to shape the future of business and society by bringing together a global community of business leaders and entrepreneurs and providing them with the necessary skills, knowledge and confidence to bring about sustainable change.

Summer School

Our summer programs offer learning opportunities to participants at the university and master’s-level as well as young professionals. High school students can join our Youth Leadership Initiative to develop their leadership skills and mindset.

HEC Online

Over the years, and with the support of partner companies, our selection of online programs has expanded making HEC Paris the strongest European school in this market. Each year, new programs are developed to meet student and business expectations.

Stories

Master's programs

 HEC is a great opportunity for personal growth, both academically and socially 

 

To describe my exchange experience at HEC in one sentence: Open minded, friendly and incredibly helpful people. It is astonishing how welcome you feel from day one...

Heiner-Stinner

Exchange student

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MBA Programs

I wanted to be among the decision makers.
 

One of Mamoudou Bocoum’s greatest career successes is an unfinished, 3,000-hectare project. As a civil engineer, Bocoum, MBA ’18, was working in Chad on a sustainable hydro-agricultural project predicted...

Mamoudou Bocoum

MBA

Class of 2018

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Master's programs

 

 I encourage students to go to HEC Paris for the opportunity to be challenged by some of the most brilliant minds in the marketing world 

 

Having been educated in the United States and after receiving an honors degree in economics from McGill...

William-Bauer

Master in Marketing

Class of 2015

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PhD Program

Our PhD students are fully integrated into the research ecosystem at HEC and greatly contribute to the publication output of the school

Christophe Pérignon, Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor of Finance

Christophe Pérignon, Associate Dean for Research

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Corporate

Our partnership with HEC allows us to be united in our response to the issues of tomorrow.

 

For the Galeries Lafayette, supporting HEC means that we are investing in young individuals who will be at the heart of business transformation. We have...

Stéphanie Azoulay, Galeries Lafayette

HR Manager, Galeries Lafayette

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Summer school

Never was I given so much detailed insight into the fashion management industry than here at HEC Paris 

 

HEC Paris and the Fashion Management program: a new universe I had the chance of entering this summer. The decision to come here for the...

Anneke-Sidenburg

Summer School

Fashion Management

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News

Professor Alberto HEC Paris Professor Alemanno Named to Project Syndicate’s Forward Thinkers List 2025
HEC Paris is proud to share that Alberto Alemanno, Jean Monnet Professor in European Union Law, has been named to the inaugural Forward Thinkers List 2025 by Project Syndicate, released on April 17, 2025...
Change Now 2025 - Grand Palais - ©ChangeNOW 2025
"We bring science to action. Being solution-oriented is part of our DNA," stated HEC Paris Dean Eloïc Peyrache as he opened the Business Schools for Climate Leadership session at ChangeNOW on April 25, at...
Michael Posner speaking at a podium during a conference, wearing a suit and blue sweater, with plants in the background
Professor of Ethics at NYU’s Stern School of Business, Michael Posner makes an impassioned call for “resistance” to the latest measures by the Trump administration. In an exclusive interview, Posner...
Michael Posner - Human Rights and Business
With a career allying diplomacy, teaching, human rights advocacy and business strategy, Michael Posner is uniquely placed to share lessons on how to bridge business and advocacy.
Mike Smith at HEC Paris
Forget the eye patch and parrot – being a pirate doesn't always mean villainy. Just ask Mike Smith, a self-proclaimed “lunatic meant to captain a pirate ship”, who is plundering the status quo for the...
Neurobus HEC paris
Combining Deep Tech and Sustainability is the winning bet of Neurobus , an innovative startup founded by Florian Corgnou, an entrepreneur whose successive periods at HEC Paris have greatly impacted...