discover in preview the top 10 of the 2025 Figaro ranking

Like every year, the Figaro Student publishes its list of the best French business schools. A ranking eagerly awaited by schools, candidates and their families. The editorial team has established two rankings: the first prioritizes schools accessible by competitive examination after two years of preparatory classes. Most of their students have gone through the ECG route (economic and commercial general route) or ECT (technological route). Depending on the school targeted, students take either the BCE competition (which brings together 18 schools including HEC, ESCP, Edhec, EM Lyon, etc.) or the Ecricome competition which includes 5 schools (Kedge, Neoma, EM Strasbourg, etc.) note that EM Strasbourg, until now exclusively open to preparatory courses, has also opened this year to the post-baccalaureate procedure.

The second ranking prioritizes post-baccalaureate business schools, accessible by competitive examination via the Parcoursup procedure. These are the Sésame competition (ESCE, PSB, EMLV…) and the Acces competition (Esdes, Essca, Iéseg). To classify these schools, the editorial team used different data that we grouped into three categories: academic, international and employment.

Here are the ten best post-prep and post-baccalaureate business schools.