EPITA Graduate School of Computer Science was established in 1984 to train and prepare aspiring computer engineers. It is a part of IONIS Education Group, which is France’s prominent private higher education group founded in 1980 by Marc Sellam. The bilingual private school holds the accreditation of prestigious organizations and institutions like the Commission des Titres d’Ingénieur (CTI), Conférence des Grandes Ecoles (CGE) and French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.

IMT Atlantique Bretagne Pays de la Loire is a leading French engineering school which was created on January 1, 2017, through the merger of the École Nationale supérieure des mines de Nantes and Telecom Bretagne. The engineering school is part of the Grandes Écoles, a prestigious group of French institutions dedicated to engineering, scientific research, and business education. It consists of three campuses and one site: Brest, Nantes, Rennes and Toulouse. IMT Atlantique is a school of the Institut Mines-Telecom and a member of the Université Bretagne Loire.

The Collège de France, founded in 1530, is a higher education and research establishment (grand établissement) in France. It is located in Paris, in the 5th arrondissement, or Latin Quarter, across the street from the historical campus of La Sorbonne. The Collège is considered to be France’s most prestigious research establishment. As of 2017, 21 Nobel Prize winners and 8 Fields Medalists have been affiliated with the Collège. It does not grant degrees.

It is one amongst the top four Grandes écoles according to the French magazines l’Express and L’Étudiant in 2010. In 2015, the school was ranked best in France for “digital” related subject and best overall private school by l’Usine Nouvelle.[1] In 2018, ISEP was ranked at the top of the podium by L’Etudiant magazine (out of 174 institutions) for the criteria “Making a good living in information technology”. This underlines ISEP’s excellence, the strength of its engineering degree and its proximity to businesses and the professional world.

Rennes School of Business is distinguished by its global outlook, international student body and international faculty. In addition to its Master in Management, the school awards diplomas in management such as: International Bachelor, Master of Arts, 16 Masters of Science, MBA, Executive MBA and PhD (in collaboration with the University College Dublin and the University of Amsterdam (dual-degree PhD). The school also offers the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree.

The Institut Supérieur du Commerce (ISC Paris Business School), a business school located in Paris, is a French university-level institution (grande école). Its programs consist of a core degree, a bachelor’s program offering six different specializations, a Master’s degree in management according to the Bologna European higher education standards, and an MBA program offering sixteen different specializations. These courses are available both on a part-time and full-time basis. ISC Paris’s degrees are accredited by the French Ministry of Education.

SKEMA Business School (School of Knowledge Economy and Management) is a new private establishment of higher education and research with the legal status of a non-profit association under the French “1901 law”. It was founded in 2009 as a result of the merger between the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce (ESC), Lille and CERAM Business School, Sophia Antipolis. The Lille school had been founded in 1892 and CERAM in 1963.