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"I’m living proof against what the grandes écoles (top professional schools) are too often accused of. As a government scholarship student from a modest French-Algerian family who couldn’t afford the tuition fees, I was able to pay for my education thanks to ESSEC’s solidarity fund.”

Nadia Cid, ESSEC MBA

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Contacts

Alain Gauthier, Project Coordinator, reporting to the President and Donor Development Campaign Director
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Tel: +33 (0)1 34 43 28 26
Marie-Christine Effosse, Donor Relations Assistant
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Tel: +33 (0)1 34 43 36 55

ESSEC Development Fund

ESSEC’s development fund model has already proven its worth in the United Kingdom and United States. Created in April 2008, it was a logical innovation at a time when the French government was promising an investment plan to stimulate the economy. This fund is invested in a portfolio of securities and finances specific ESSEC projects on an ongoing basis. It has the ambitious goal of raising €20 million by 2015.

Invest in our infrastructure

ESSEC donors have contributed to the expansion of the Cergy campus.

The Learning Center offers students 60,000 books, 600 periodical titles, and comfortable reading spaces and group work areas, with 100% WiFi coverage.
The Student Union is a gathering place where French and international students, professors, guest speakers and partner companies all rub shoulders.
The Galion Building houses amphitheaters and work and study spaces.
Nautile is a faculty office building with award-winning architecture.
The Dome is a multi-purpose hall accommodating up to 2,000 people.

Solidarity Fund

This scholarship fund helps students pursue our programs regardless of their nationality, social background or financial situation. These students are reimbursed 30% of their ESSEC tuition fees. The Solidarity Fund is financed by its capital endowment as well as by donors to our development campaign.

Contributing means:

helping bright students succeed by providing them with a springboard for their career
supporting a shared effort to promote a diverse student body
benefiting from tax deductions
fostering the school’s growth

Disability: drawing wealth from diversity

ESSEC Business School based its development on tolerance, responsibility and diversity and has embarked on an effort to accommodate people with disabilities.

Raising our international profile

ESSEC Business School has decided to make further investments in communications over the next five years. Its goal is to increase name awareness among multinational companies and attract the best French and international candidates. Unaided name recall needs to be strengthened worldwide through investments in institutional communications. At the same time, in order to promote the school’s educational and training programs, it will be necessary to intensify campaigns in those media outlets that will enable ESSEC to reach selected targets as effectively as possible.