Burgundy School of Business

Burgundy School of Business (BSB), created in 1899 by the Dijon Chamber of Commerce, is a private higher educational establishment. The school is a member of the network of French Grandes écoles (Conférence des Grandes Écoles). Founded in at the end of the 19th century as École Supérieure de Commerce de Dijon (ESC Dijon), BSB is one of the oldest business schools in the world. 1899 - École Supérieure de Commerce de Dijon (ESC Dijon) founded by an entrepreneur, Léon Gadeau, with the support of industrialists and Burgundy wine merchants (now called: Burgundy School of Business). 1900 - ESC Dijon officially recognized by the government of France. 1916 - School admits girls, and becomes co-educational. 1919 - The first American students arrive at ESC Dijon. 1987 - ESC Dijon is one of the 14 founding schools of the Chapter of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles de Commerce. 1998 - First international double degrees. 1965 - ESC Dijon students go to China on an exchange trip, the first of its kind for a French school. 1968 - First international exchange agreement with the Staatliche Höhere Wirtschaftschule in Pforzheim, Germany. 2000 - First international courses (offered in English, Spanish and German) and first management courses in a foreign language in the Grande École programme. 2012 - Opening of the Paris campus. 2013 - Opening of the Lyon campus, and first Bachelor programme. 2014 - Opening of the Lyon Confluence Campus. 2015 - ESC Dijon, along with 7 other schools, found the Université Bourgogne Franche Comté. 2016 - ESC Dijon becomes BSB - Burgundy School of Business. Burgundy School of Business 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.