Institut de Formation Internationale (IFI) is a business school in
Rouen
Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of ...
,
France. The school is part of the
ESC Rouen
The Rouen Business School (french: Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Rouen) was a leading French business school.
It was founded in 1871 and on 24 April 2013, Rouen Business School and Reims Management School announced the merger of the two Schoo ...
group of schools, and offers Bachelor of Business Administration degrees.
IFI is
EQUIS accredited by the
EFMD The European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) is an international not-for-profit association based in Brussels. Europe's largest network association in the field of management development, it has over 890 member organizations from academ ...
(European Foundation for Management Education), and has the highest accreditation of the Ministry of Education ("visa").
The aim of IFI is to train students for careers in trade and management in companies with an international dimension.
Immersion in the field of international business is the IFI's strong point; each student spends one year in a foreign university and carries out a six-month internship in a company outside France. Altogether, IFI students have the advantage of 18 months experience abroad. Skills such as awareness of intercultural differences, flexibility and adaptability, fluency in foreign languages (two languages compulsory), and expertise of international business are developed by the IFI programme.
The school teams up with prestigious international partners such as
Georgetown University (McDonough School of Business), University of Western Ontario (
Richard Ivey School of Business), Indiana University (
Kelley School of Business), Calpoly State University, or the
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Educational institutions established in 1986
Business schools in France
1986 establishments in France
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