of the ESPEME School (EDHEC BBA nowadays), delivering a 4-year bachelor programme. 1991 Setting up the campus in Nice. 1999 EQUIS Accreditation. First international basepoint (London) 2000 Introduction of the Executive programme portfolio. 2001 Launch of EDHEC Risk Institute (ERI) 2003 AMBA Accreditation. 2004 AACSB Accreditation. 2010 Launch of the EDHEC Incubator (EYE) 2011 Opening of the Executive campuses (Singapore and Paris) 2012 Launch of ERI Scientific Beta. Strategic partnerships with Yale and Princeton. 2013 Launch of EDHEC Family Business Centre (EFBC) 2014 ESPEME becomes EDHEC BBA 2016 Launch of EDHEC Infra Grande école degrees EDHEC 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, like EDHEC, 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 in China, graduation from a grande école is considered the prerequisite credential for any top government, administrative and corporate position in France. The degrees are accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles and awarded by the Ministry of National Education (France). Higher education business degrees in France are organized into three levels thus facilitating international mobility: the Licence / Bachelor's degrees, and the Master's and Doctorat degrees. The Bachelors and the Masters are organized in semesters: 6 for the Bachelors and 4 for the Masters. Those levels of study include various "parcours" or paths based on UE (Unités d'enseignement or Modules), each worth a defined number of European credits (ECTS). A student accumulates those credits, which are generally transferable between paths. A Bachelors is awarded once 180 ECTS have been obtained (bac + 3); a Masters is awarded once 120 additional credits have been obtained (bac +5). The highly coveted PGE (Grand Ecole Program) ends with the degree of Master's in Management (MiM) Rankings In 2022, EDHEC Business School was ranked among the top-10 European Business Schools. Furthermore, the Financial Times ranked EDHEC #1 worldwide for their Master in Finance in 2017. EDHEC's Master in Finance program is ranked in the global top-5 consistently. The Economist ranks the university 3rd in the world for its Master's in Management. More rankings can be found below. Degree programmes EDHEC