September) and two formats: weekend format (Friday and Saturday, twice a month) or weekday format (Wednesday to Saturday, once a month). PhD in Finance The EDHEC PhD in Finance is the highest degree conferred by the Business School. Its structure includes core courses, electives, research workshops and a final dissertation. Partnerships and alliances EDHEC has 230 international partners offering 22 double degrees. It has strategic academic alliances with the London School of Economics and Political Science, UCLA, UC Berkeley and MIT Sloan School of Management. Research EDHEC Business School is involved in academic research. EDHEC counts with six research centres in financial analysis and accounting, economics, risk and asset management, law, family. The common goal of research centres is to meet international academic standards while also making the results useful to business and to policymakers. EDHEC conducts applied research in the following fields: Finance: Created in 2001, EDHEC-Risk Institute conducts research in asset management, most particularly in the organisation and improvement of risk management for industry players. Accounting and financial analysis: Created in 2006, the EDHEC Financial Analysis and Accounting Research Centre works on the choice of discount rate in company valuation and in particular on the integration of systemic accounting risk. Economics: Since February 2006, EDHEC has had an economics research team focused on public policy and state reform. This team works on four broad themes: financing and reform of the welfare state, labor policies and competition, evaluation of sovereign risk and optimal management of the public debt and European budgetary governance. Legal: The Legal EDHEC Research Centre has Legal Performance and Company Competitiveness as a subtitle. At the heart of the centre is the notion of legal performance and its variations. References External links Grandes écoles Business schools in France Educational institutions established in 1906 1906 establishments in France Lille