Rankings 2024: Le Parisien Etudiant Post-Bac and Post-Prépa
published on 10.06.24
THIS YEAR, TBS EDUCATION CLIMBED TO 9TH PLACE IN THE PARISIEN ETUDIANT RANKING OF POST-PRÉPA BUSINESS SCHOOLS, MOVING UP 2 PLACES.
The list ranks schools delivering a Master’s degree according to fifteen criteria, including attractiveness, international scope, job placement and salaries, and social and gender diversity.
The analysis by Le Parisien’s journalists emphasizes these 4 criteria, which reflect TBS Education’s strategy: becoming a school of educational well-being, making our students more employable, and maximizing our societal impact on our local areas. To achieve these objectives, TBS Education relies on innovative campuses, expert and recognized faculty, new models of training and employability, and a stronger international presence.
To provide the best educational experience for its students, TBS Education is transforming itself into a business for good, building on more than 15 years of successfully integrating environmental, societal, and social criteria into its school model and its research and training programs. TBS Education’s status as a business for good will give it a new dynamic and speed up its development through a strategy built around four central pillars: innovative campuses and educational well-being, an expert and recognized faculty, new training and employability models, and strong international development.
BUSINESS SCHOOL RANKING METHODOLOGY
Fifteen criteria are used to rank the schools delivering Master’s degrees. The editors of Le Parisien/Aujourd’hui in France compiled these rankings after sending a questionnaire to the schools. Here are the elements used to calculate each score:
Prestige: duration of the Master’s degree (1 to 5 years). The number of national and international accreditations.
Power: group budget. School budget per student. Percentage of foreign students paying tuition fees.
Development: growth in student numbers, group budgets, Grande Ecole Program budgets, and group enrolments between 2021 and 2024. Increase in applicants between 2023 and 2024.
Social: percentage of exemptions calculated and scholarships awarded in relation to the cost of the program.
Infrastructure: Campus size per student and its evolution between 2021 and 2024. The proportion of graduates graduating from the school’s international campuses.
Attractiveness: 1/ For prepas-based schools: Sigem ranking (system for assigning prepas students to top business schools). Volume of prepas integrated and AST 2 (“admissions sur titre en 2e année de grande école”) integrated. Percentage of those present at orals over the number of those eligible. Prepa Concours 2024 candidates. 2/For post-baccalaureate students: number of integrated students and AST 2s (2023 competitive admission exams).
Faculty: proportion of research professors to permanent staff. Proportion of international professors. Supervision ratio. The number of different nationalities among teaching staff.
Pedagogy: percentage of hours taught by research professors. Proportion of double degrees obtained from French institutions.
Professionalization: minimum required internship time; the proportion of apprentices and work-study students; the number of professional intervenors per year per student.
International: proportion of students on study trips. Percentage of accredited agreements out of the total number of agreements. The number of double degrees offered. The proportion of students taking double degrees abroad. The number of countries offered for expatriation.
Research: proportion of articles published by professors.
Salary: placement rate of students before graduation, salary at graduation.
Entrepreneurship: number of companies incubated between 2021 and 2024 or created by graduates in the last 3 years. Percentage of graduates from an entrepreneurial program.
Digital strategy: dynamic digital policy. Number of Facebook fans and followers on X, followers on Instagram, and LinkedIn. Percentage of graduates from a digital field.
Pedagogical innovation: The last criterion was rated according to the editors of “Le Parisien Étudiant” ‘s opinion on the quality of the schools’ work in pedagogical and development projects.
