University in France
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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KEDGE Business School is a French grande école de commerce et de management with four campuses in France (Bordeaux, Marseille, Paris and Toulon), associated campuses in France (Avignon, Bastia, Bayonne) and abroad (Shanghai, Suzhou, Mumbai, Dakar and Abidjan). It was formed in 2013 by the merger of BEM (Bordeaux, founded 1874) and Euromed Management (Marseille, founded 1872), and describes its mission as learning to build a more sustainable, ethical and resilient society (strategic plan KEDGE 2030).
The Bordeaux campus stands on the university estate at Talence, about 20 to 30 minutes from the city centre by tram (line B, stop Doyen Brus). It covers 35,000 m2 and was designed on an Anglo-Saxon model. It has 69 classrooms, language laboratories, computer rooms and 20 lecture theatres seating 60 to 500, a trading room run by faculty and the student finance association Transaction, the 2,000 m2 Ruche Library, co-working areas, self-service and cafeteria catering, and the Business Nursery and Business Accelerator for entrepreneurship. Sports facilities include a city stadium, a gymnasium, a weight room and a dance studio, run by the Bureau des Sports and Bureau des Arts. Bordeaux hosts 6,696 students and 297 staff.
The school offers 36 programmes in management and design: the Programme Grande Ecole (Master in Management, entered after preparatory classes, through the Ecricome Tremplin competitions or the Pre-Master route), the post-baccalaureate KEDGE Bachelor, International BBA, EBP International and Bachelor Creativity and Design (KEDGE Arts School), Master of Science and Mastere Specialise programmes (MSc and MS), DCG and DSCG accounting diplomas preparation, work-study (alternance) programmes, the KEDGE Wine School, a Global Executive MBA, a DBA and a PhD. Its research is organised in centres for Marketing and New Consumption, Supply Chain (CESIT), Food, Wine and Hospitality, International Business, Sustainable Development, Reconsidered Finance (SEEFAR), Creative Industries and Culture, and Family Entrepreneurship.
The school reports about 16,000 students (32% international), 238 permanent professors (49% international) and 95,000 graduates, and counts more than 300 partnerships with foreign universities. There are 60 student associations. Housing is arranged privately with advice from the school's housing service, partner platforms and partner residences near each campus.
KEDGE holds the triple accreditation EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA (AMBA covers the Global Executive MBA and Blended MBA). It is recognised and state-approved (visee) by the French State, is a member of the Conference des Grandes Ecoles, holds the Bienvenue en France label, and its MSc programmes carry the CGE label.
An internal bursary awarded on social criteria only, for all initial-training programmes. Students must be definitively registered full time on the Marseille, Talence, Toulon or Paris campuses, pay their full tuition for the year (in cash or in instalments), and not be apprentices, on a gap year or in deferred graduation. Eligible students receive an email call for applications at registration. Contact: [email protected].
From the 2026 start, KEDGE covers 100% of tuition for CROUS scholarship holders at level 7 entering the Pre-Master of the Programme Grande Ecole; levels 5 and 6 may receive a social bursary of up to EUR 10,000.
The school stands as 50% bank guarantor, with a partner bank guaranteeing the other 50%, for French students of excellent academic level without a guarantor or with low family income, and reimburses interest costs. It covers the Programme Grande Ecole, KEDGE Bachelor, International BBA and the specialised programmes, and adds coaching, mentoring and career support. Applicants complete an eligibility file, ranked by merit and by financial need.
Erasmus+ grants (exchange or internship of at least 2 months in an eligible country, after at least one validated year of higher education, up to 12 months per cycle), the Aquitaine regional council grant (Bordeaux and Bayonne campuses) and the PRAME grant of the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region (Marseille and Toulon, up to EUR 400 per month, internships of at least two months, applicants aged under 30 on 1 October) are available to enrolled students. Erasmus and regional grants cannot be combined.
Prodigy Finance loans for international students cover up to 80% of study costs on selected MSc programmes (Audit and Performance Management, Corporate Finance, Banking and Finance, International Business, Global Supply Chain Management, International Trade and Logistics, MAI International Purchasing and Innovation Management, Sustainable Finance). Partner banks at each campus offer student loans, some at zero rate, and the State-guaranteed loan is also available. National CROUS grants (on social criteria; for KEDGE Bachelor, EBP International, International BBA, Programme Grande Ecole, International Trade and Logistics Master and MSc Ingenieur d'affaires) are applied for with the home academy's CROUS. An early-bird offer gives 10% off tuition for completed applications to the Bachelor and International BBA before 30 November. Work-study contracts exempt apprentices from tuition and provide a monthly salary. Private foundations (Jacques Lambert, GIVEKA, Deficlics jeunes, Francis Bouygues, Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet) are listed for eligible students.
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View scholarships for KEDGE Business School →Entry is through the Ecricome competition bank. Students from economics and business preparatory classes (ECG/ECT), literary preparatory classes (Ecricome Prepas Litteraires, via the BEL/ENS written results), scientific preparatory classes (Ecricome Scientifiques) and ENS D1/D2 enter the first year of the PGE. Holders of a Bac+2 (BTS, BUT2, Licence 2) enter through Ecricome Tremplin Bac+2 into the first year, and holders of a Bac+3 or Bac+4 through Ecricome Tremplin Bac+3 directly into the second year. Written tests (ECG/ECT, April 2026) were followed by oral tests; for the scientific, D1/D2 and Tremplin routes the file comprises baccalaureate and degree marks, a logic test (TAGE 2/TAGE MAGE, GMAT or GRE) and an English test (TOEIC, TOEFL, IELTS, Duolingo, Cambridge B2 or LTE), then an English oral and the KEDGE motivation interview called 'Le revelateur' (30 minutes). Candidates register on the Ecricome site, and the SIGEM procedure records their preferences and final allocation. The 2026 Ecricome registration windows ran from December 2025 to 12 January 2026 (preparatory classes), to 18 February 2026 (session 1 of Scientifiques, D1/D2 and Tremplin) and to 20 April 2026 (session 2).
Applicants first register on Parcoursup (2026 wish period 19 January to 12 March 2026, files completed and wishes confirmed by 1 April). KEDGE Bachelor is entered through the Ecricome Bachelor competition (760 places) with sub-wishes for Bordeaux, Marseille and Toulon; International BBA and EBP International are entered through the SESAME competition. Candidates also register with the competition body, which collects the entry fee and issues the convocations. The Bachelor Creativity and Design (KEDGE Arts School) is admitted on file. Admission on file to the second or third year of the Bachelor, or the first or third year of the International BBA (including international students for first year), runs through the Join Us platform (join.kedge.edu). The International BBA and Bachelor offer full English-language tracks, and the programmes are taught in French and English.
Applications go through the Join Us platform in five steps: online application; file review within 5 days; online interview within 15 days; admission decision (within 3 days for post-bac, the week after the interview session for specialised programmes); administrative registration, with a deposit payable within 10 days of the admission letter (no deposit for first-time work-study entrants), deducted from tuition. MSc programmes are open from Bac+3 or Bac+4; the Mastere Specialise is for holders of a Bac+5, or a Bac+4 with experience. Application deadlines for the 2026 intake: 22 September 2026 for French and EU applicants, 31 July 2026 for non-EU applicants (resident or originating); selection closes as soon as places are filled. Webinars to help with registration were held on 10 July 2026 (international) and 23 July 2026 (French).
Several programmes are open as apprenticeships (alternance) through the KEDGE CFA. Applicants with at least three years of professional experience may apply to the diploma programmes through KEDGE Executive Education and Join Us.
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