ICN Business School

ICN Business School is a Grande Ecole of management (selective higher education institutions, which provide high-level training) triple accredited AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA. Associated with the University of Lorraine, the school is authorized to issue a diploma targeted by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research for its programs (Bac+3 for Bachelor in Management degree and Bac+5 for the Master in Management program-Grande Ecole). Founded in 1905 in Nancy, the school now has four campuses: two in France (Nancy and Paris La Défense) and two in Germany (Nuremberg and Berlin). Association law of 1901 non-profit, ICN Business School is labeled EESPIG by the French state. The school has been created in 1905 as Institut commercial de Nancy (ICN) by the Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Meurthe-et-Moselle. In 1999, The National Graduate School of Art in Nancy, ICN Business School and Nancy Mines founded the Artem Alliance (Art, Technology, Management) In 2003, the “Institut Commercial de Nancy” becomes ICN Business School, a state-recognized private higher education institution associated with the University of Lorraine. In 2017, the three ARTEM Alliance schools are all located on the same campus, the Artem campus. In 2018, ICN makes its first intake to the Paris campus In 2019, ICN makes its first intake to the Berlin campus In 2019, ICN Business School creates Station A, a physical place but also a place of intelligence open to the world ICN 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 in China, graduation from a grande école is considered the prerequisite credential for any top government, administrative and corporate position in France.