HEC Paris

HEC Paris is a business school and grandes écoles located in Jouy-en-Josas, a southwestern outer suburb of Paris, France. The school offers MiMs, MSc in International Finance, MBA, EMBA, executive education, and PhD programs. HEC Paris is the founding member of CEMS - Global Alliance in Management Education and is triple accredited (by AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS). History Founded in 1881 by Gustave Emmanuel Roy, president of the Paris Chamber of Commerce (CCIP), with 57 students in its first class, the École des hautes études commerciales de Paris (HEC) aimed to be in the fields of management and commerce what the École Centrale de Paris was in the field of engineering.