KEDGE Business School is a triple accredited (AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA) French business school and grande école. The school was founded in 2013 from the merger of two grandes écoles: Bordeaux Ecole de Management (ESC Bordeaux), founded in 1874 in Bordeaux; and EUROMED Management in Marseilles (ESC Marseille), founded in 1872 in Marseille. KEDGE has campuses in France (Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulon, Paris); Senegal (Dakar); Côte d'Ivoire (Abidjan); and China (Shanghai, Suzhou). History KEDGE business school was recently created in 2013, but it is the result of a merger of two of the earliest business schools in existence: BEM (Bordeaux Management School) in Bordeaux founded in 1874 and EUROMED Management in Marseilles founded in 1872. 1872 - École Supérieure de Commerce de Marseille (ESC Marseille, later EUROMED) founded. (now called: KEDGE Business School, Marseille) 1874 - École Supérieure de Commerce de Bordeaux (ESC Bordeaux, later BEM) founded. (now called: KEDGE Business School, Bordeaux) 1968 - ESC Marseille establishes a new campus in Luminy, France. 1969 - ESC Bordeaux establishes a new campus in Talence, France. 2001 - ESC Bordeaux awarded EQUIS accreditation. 2005 - ESC Marseille awarded EQUIS accreditation. 2007 - ESC Bordeaux and ESC Marseille awarded AMBA accreditation. 2008 - ESC Bordeaux establishes a new campus in Dakar, Senegal. 2009 - ESC Bordeaux awarded AACSB accreditation. 2010 - ESC Marseille establishes a new campus in Suzhou, China, and launches the Institut Franco-Chinese in partnership with Renmin University of China. 2010 - ESC Marseille acquires Toulon Ecole Supérieure de Commerce et Technologie (ESCT) and Ecole Internationale de Design (EID) 2011 - ESC Marseille awarded AACSB accreditation 2012 - ESC Bordeaux (BEM) and ESC Marseille (EUROMED) merge 2013 - KEDGE Business School founded. 2015 - KEDGE establishes a new campus in Paris, France. 2018 and 2019 - New campuses in Paris and Toulon, Marseille campus extension and new spaces on Bordeaux campus 2019 - Ph.D. program launched and KEDGE Design in Marseille opened. Grande école degrees KEDGE Business School is a grande école, a French institution of higher education that is separate from, but parallel and often connected to, the main framework of the French public university system. Grandes écoles are elite academic institutions that admit students through an extremely competitive process, and a significant proportion of their graduates occupy the highest levels of French society. Similar to Ivy League schools in the United States, Oxbridge in the UK, and C9 League