September 29, 2025 - Cergy, France and New Haven, USA - ESSEC Business School and Yale School of Management (SOM) are celebrating the signature of two new consecutive degrees that will offer ESSEC students the opportunity to further their education at Yale.
ESSEC Business School and Yale School of Management partner on two new consecutive degree agreements
29.9.2025
Students in ESSEC’s Master in Management and Global MBA programs will have the opportunity to participate in this new learning experience, which will see them split their studies between ESSEC’s Cergy or La Défense campuses and Yale’s campus in New Haven, Connecticut.
Participants will earn a degree from each institution: ESSEC MiM students can pursue Yale’s Master of Management Studies in Global Business and Society (GBS), and Global MBA students can pursue Yale’s Master of Advanced Management (MAM). For Global MBA students, this is one of the first opportunities to pursue a consecutive degree offered by the program.
ESSEC Master in Management students can apply to the one-year Yale Master of Management Studies program during their first year at ESSEC, thus completing the program during their second year of studies. Global MBA students will apply to Yale during their one-year MBA program before heading to New Haven for the one-year Master of Advanced Management program. The cohorts starting in September 2026 will be the first to benefit from this new opportunity.
Vincenzo Vinzi, ESSEC Business School Dean and President, says, “These new consecutive-degree programs with Yale School of Management are emblematic of ESSEC’s strategy to promote excellence: to cultivate transformative educational experiences through alliances with the world’s most prestigious universities.”
Camino de Paz, Yale SOM Assistant Dean of Global Network Programs, says “We have always recruited GBS and MAM students directly through the schools where they studied their MIM and MBA degrees respectively. We are thrilled to continue partnering with schools around the world in our ongoing efforts to attract the best and brightest students to Yale SOM.”
This new partnership offers students the possibility to earn two globally-recognized, prestigious degrees: either the ESSEC Master in Management and Yale SOM’s MMS-GBS, or the ESSEC Global MBA and Yale SOM’s MAM.
By pursuing this opportunity, students can gain perspective from two continents, with immersion in both the European and American cultural context. As graduates from these programs, students will become members of both the ESSEC and Yale SOM alumni networks, granting them access to expanded career and networking opportunities.
ESSEC and Yale SOM share an emphasis on global leadership and societal impact, exploring the intersection of business and society. With this agreement, ESSEC expands its growing portfolio of North American educational opportunities, including partners like the University of California, Berkeley, UCLA School of Law, and Carnegie Mellon University, reinforcing its global positioning.
ESSEC Business School has been a prestigious institution for higher learning since its foundation in 1907, set apart by its humanist approach. In light of current and future economic, environmental, social and geopolitical challenges, ESSEC is committed to transforming its teaching, research, and campuses to train inclusive, influential and multicultural leaders.
With 7855 students in pre-experience programs and 5000 participants in executive education across four campuses in Cergy, La Défense, Rabat and Singapore, ESSEC offers programs recognized as some of the best in the world. ESSEC’s exceptional faculty, composed of 193 professors (including 25 emeritus professors), 230 partnerships with prestigious international universities and an alumni network of over 74 000 members, showcases ESSEC’s commitment to excellence and academic innovation.
Since its founding in 1976, the Yale School of Management has pursued a distinctive mission: to educate leaders for business and society. Guided by a vision of purposeful, entrepreneurial leadership that spans the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, Yale SOM prepares individuals to drive organizational success while making a positive impact on the world. This mission is deeply embedded in every aspect of the school—from its innovative curriculum to its campus culture—and continues to shape its evolution.
Today, thousands of alumni across industries and continents are living out this commitment. Yale SOM offers a full-time MBA, an Executive MBA, and one-year master’s programs in systemic risk, global business and society, asset management, technology management, and advanced management, as well as PhD programs in key management disciplines.
