Brest Business School

Brest Business School, also called ESC Bretagne Brest, France, is a French business School in the city of Brest in western France.

Founded in 1962, Brest BS provides business and management courses to 900 students. Currently, the school offers seven different programs both in French and in English. The school is supported by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Brest. In January 2013, the school merged with three others to found France Business School. After the end of France Business School, as of January 2015, ESC Bretagne Brest regained its independence, thus also changing its name to Brest Business School.

Mission

BBS faculty has extensive academic and business experience and their programs train future executives to be capable of comprehending the complexity of companies and economic globalization, capable of working with and managing multicultural teams, capable of becoming rapidly operational, able of integrating the logic of ethics, sustainable development and innovation. What’s more, the mix of ages, backgrounds, nationalities and occupations makes for dynamic discussions in class, widening of horizons and a truly cosmopolitan experience for students!

ENGLISH-TAUGHT PROGRAMS

• Bachelor in International Management
• MSc in International Business
• Master in Management

PREPARATION PROGRAM FOR NON-FRENCH SPEAKING APPLICANTS

Applicants will have opportunities to improve their language skills in terms of written and oral communicative capacities, to discover a part of scholar programs, to benefit from training days regarding the applicants’ entrance evaluation. This one-year program is not a simply “conventional” language program, but it aims to help foreign students to prepare their next academic years in a most effective way. Furthermore, it enables to facilitate students’ integrations in French culture and university life.

PROGRAM STRENGTHS

• Visa proceeding supports: BBS is member of Campus France
• CIEL Bretagne: experimented language education center and partner of BBS
• Access to academic courses: familiarize specialized vocabulary and notions
• Effective entrance evaluation training days
• Coaching: small class size and close personal attention
• Sociality: interact with BBS’s students, discover French culture and lifestyle
• Incubator: company start-up facilities (job/internship opportunities for fluent French/English speakers)

PROGRAM COMPONENTS

• French language learning
• English language learning
• Disciplines discovering
• Training days = training sessions for applicants’ entrance evaluation

Entry Requirements

Open to candidates with:

• Baccalaureate degree or equivalent to enter the first year of Bachelor
• Bachelor degree or equivalent to enter the first year of Master
• Students who have successfully completed 1 or 2 years in Higher Education (60 or 120 ETCs) to enter the second or third year of Bachelor

Facilities for International students

• FREE Arrival Meet & Greet service

Brest Business School and the “Centre de Mobilité Internationale de Brest” (CMI)/Brest International Mobility Centre have signed an agreement whereby BBS international students can benefit a FREE Arrival Meet & Greet service from CMI.

• Accommodation In Brest

Brest Business School will provide international students all information and help regarding their accommodation in Brest.

Brest Business School has signed an agreement with Studapart , housing platform with more than 500 housing available in Brest (apartments, private residences, roommates). To access the platform a password will be provided, on demand, as soon as you have completed your application form.

Accreditations and associations

• Member of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles
• A school authorized to deliver masters degrees
• Member of the management chapter of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles
• Member of the Fondation Nationale pour l’Enseignement de la Gestion des Entreprises (FNEGE)
• Member of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)
• Member of the EISB (Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Small Business)
• Member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International)[10]
• Member of Produit en Bretagne (Produced in Brittany)

Member of Campus responsables