The École de Management de Normandie is a business school created in 1871. Incorporated as a Higher Education & Research non-profit association and operating under private law, it has campuses in Caen, Dublin, Le Havre, Oxford and Paris. It is one of the oldest business schools in France. It holds EPAS, EQUIS, and AACSB accreditations. In 2015, EMN was selected to appear in the ranking of the Financial Times of the best masters in management in the world. In January 2013, EM Normandie launched its new “Values & Performance” Strategic Plan, to guarantee further strategic consistency, to capitalize on its multi-campus experience, to apply active learning, and to serve the Normandy territory in partnership with its entire business community. This has brought new dimensions to the School’s ambitions and reputation, thanks to the La SmartEcole® project and further partnerships with the University of Caen Normandy and the Grenoble School of Management.
1982 - Foundation of Groupe ESC Normandie jointly by the Le Havre and Caen Chambers of Commerce & Industry.
1987 - Creation of SUP EUROPE C.E.S.E.C. Originally a 3-year joint programme of France and the United Kingdom based in Caen, it was later extended to four years, recruiting students for first degrees.
1988 - ESC Le Havre was admitted to the Chapter of Management Schools of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles.
2003 - Creation of the Polytechnicum de Normandie by the Caen and Le Havre Chambers of Commerce, and included six partners: ESC Le Havre, IPER, SUP EUROPE C.E.S.E.C., IAE, IUP Banque Assurance and UFR d'Economie et de Gestion of Université de Caen Basse-Normandie. This was to be a joint development partnership for the benefit of its component institutions: e-learning platform, customized continuing education, etc.
2004 - Groupe ESC Normandie became École de management de Normandie with a new legal structure of its own. The ESC Le Havre is awarded the Grade de Master by the Ministry of National Education.
2007 - Previously a division of the Le Havre and Caen Chambers of Commerce, Ecole de Management de Normandie was transformed into a non-profit company under the French 1901 Act, with self-government by a Board of Trustees and a Strategic Orientation Council.
2016 - EM Normandie has been granted a 3-year EQUIS Accreditation. The School has thus achieved Triple Accreditation status at international level, after having obtained the EPAS Label for its Grande Ecole Programme in 2011, and full AACSB International Accreditation, also in 2014, for 5 years.
2017 - Opening of a new campus in Dublin.
International
EM Normandie has more than 200 partner universities around the world, in more than 50 different countries, in which a student can be allowed to spend one or two semesters as an exchange student. 9 Foreign Languages are taught in the 5 campus. Approximately 730 international students are hosted every year. More than 30% of the full-time faculty are foreign. 6 programmes are taught in English.
Moral values
The teaching approach of EM Normandie has been founded on 3 pillars: "Openness to the world, Close relations between Faculty and students, and Humility".
Campuses
The EM Normandie has 4 campuses altogether and the two main campuses are based in Caen and Le Havre.
Le Havre is a major French city located some west of Rouenon the shore of the English Channel and at the mouth of the River Seine. Its port is the second largest in France, after Marseille, for total traffic, and the largest French container port. Le Havre's campus is the historic campus of EM Normandie. In the center of the city, the campus is located only 200 meters from the Marina.
is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the Calvadosdepartment and the capital of the Lower Normandyregion. Caen's campus in the second main campus of EM Normandie with 7000 square meters. It holds 5 amphitheaters, 5 computer rooms, 2 language laboratories, 1 media library, and many classrooms. Recently EM Normandie has started to build an extension of 2000 square meters to respond to its increasing activity in the Post-Bac selection.