IONIS Education Group is a private, for-profit,

higher education Higher education is tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree. Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completi ...

group in

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

. It was created in 1980 and by 2021 had more than 30,000 students and 80,000 alumni. There are 26 further education colleges in the group.

History

Marc Sellam created the Institut supérieur européen de gestion group in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

in 1980 as a business school with an organization and curriculum that differed from other

grandes écoles Grandes may refer to: * Agustín Muñoz Grandes, Spanish general and politician *Banksia ser. Grandes, a series of plant species native to Australia * Grandes y San Martín, a municipality located in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain ...

. During the 1980s regional colleges were created in

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...

Strasbourg Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...

Nantes Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...

and

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

. In 1993 the ''Institut supérieur européen de formation par l'action'' business school (providing further education for three years after the

Baccalauréat The ''baccalauréat'' (; ), often known in France colloquially as the ''bac'', is a French national academic qualification that students can obtain at the completion of their secondary education (at the end of the ''lycée'') by meeting certain ...

) was founded. In 1997, the group, originally named Intelsup, bought a computer science college (the

École pour l'informatique et les techniques avancées École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

). In 1997 and 1998, the group bought the business school

Institut supérieur de gestion The ISG business school or Institut Superieur de Gestion, is a major business school, based in Paris, France. It was founded in 1967 by a group of French CEOs led by Pierre-Alexandre Dumas. In 1983, ISG opened its own campuses in New York and To ...

and the aeronautical and space engineering college

Institut polytechnique des sciences avancées The Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées (IPSA), ( en, Institute of Polytechnic Science and Aeronautics) is a French private ''grande école'' in aerospace engineering located at Ivry-sur-Seine, Lyon and Toulouse, recognized by the Frenc ...

. In 1999, the group created the

École pour l'informatique et les nouvelles technologies The Paris Graduate School of Digital Innovation (french: École pour l'informatique et les nouvelles technologies, or EPITECH), formerly European Institute of Information Technology, is a private institution of higher education in computer scien ...

of practical computer science and in 2001

E-Artsup E-Artsup is a French private school created in 2001 and specialized in digital creativity and multimedia. The school is located at Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Nantes, Montpellier, Toulouse, Strasbourg and Lille and is part of IONIS Education Group. Th ...

, a college for digital design and multimedia. The name IONIS Education Group was adopted in 2002, at which point all of its colleges offered five-year courses. In 2003 it entered the

biotechnology Biotechnology is the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services. The term ''biotechnology'' was first used b ...

sector with the

Institut Sup'Biotech de Paris The Institut Sup'Biotech de Paris (Sup'Biotech or ISBP; en, Paris Higher Biotechnology Institute) is a French private engineering school created in 2003, located in Villejuif, near Paris, and in Lyon. Sup'Biotech is specialized in the field o ...

. ICS Begue, a 1957 accountancy college, was acquired in 2004 and the 1905 engineering college École spéciale de mécanique et électricité in 2006. During 2007 and 2008 regional colleges were opened in

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

, Nancy,

Nice Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative c ...

Montpellier Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of ...

and

. In 2009, the group launched IONIS Executive Learning and the

IONIS School of Technology and Management IONIS School of Technology and Management (IONIS STM) is a French private graduate school, part of the IONIS Education Group, that offers instruction in information technology, computer science, energy, biotechnology and management. It was estab ...

In 2010, ISEG became three independent schools in

finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

, marketing - communication and business. In 2011 the Sup'Internet, an Internet college opened. In February 2013, the management of the group announced the projects for the next ten years. They are focused on four main areas: international development, social services, transversality and diversification. In September 2013

EPITECH The Paris Graduate School of Digital Innovation (french: École pour l'informatique et les nouvelles technologies, or EPITECH), formerly European Institute of Information Technology, is a private institution of higher education in computer scien ...

will open a new campus in

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

. In September 2014, the same university will open new campuses in

California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...

and

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...

. Also in 2014, ESME Sudria will also open a campus in

and a new Mastère en sciences course in partnership with the

Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology (BIPT; ), founded in 1978, had been a specialist school connected to the petrochemical system. After a development initiative over decades, it became a multi-disciplinary university with eleven colle ...

. EPITA and Sup'Internet will also open news campuses abroad in 2014. Since September 2013, the École des technologies numériques appliquées will start a new program in 2 years after French

which will be entirely free. 250 tickets are available. The innovation is that there are graduate students who will pay for the students in training (250 euros per month during three years). For people without the ''Baccalauréat'', a new campus of the

Web@cademie Web@cademie is a private, nonprofit and tuition-free computer programming school created and funded by French IONIS Education Group with several partners including Epitech and Zup de Co association. The school was first opened in Paris in 2010. H ...

will open in

in September 2013. The year 2013 will see the new financial endowment of the group. It plans to launch new school in the areas of luxury, design and fashion. It also wants to develop day release or night school education for employees provided by companies by developing programs based on the 14

Master of Business Administration A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...

degrees of

and the 11th of the ISG Business School. In February 2014, a new business school specialized in luxury, fashion and design called Moda Domani Institute is opened. In September 2014, a new digital and innovative campus will open in

(

Le Marais The Marais (Le Marais ; "the marsh") is a historic district in Paris, France. Having once been an aristocratic district, it is home to many buildings of historic and architectural importance. It spreads across parts of the 3rd and 4th arr ...

Bastille The Bastille (, ) was a fortress in Paris, known formally as the Bastille Saint-Antoine. It played an important role in the internal conflicts of France and for most of its history was used as a state prison by the kings of France. It was sto ...

) bringing together the Institut supérieur européen de gestion group, Sup'Internet and

. In 2020, the group bought the computer science Supinfo. In 2021, the group has opened the

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...

College IA Institut and the ISG Sport Business Management School dedicated to

sport business Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, t ...

Member schools

Business

* Institut supérieur européen de gestion group * ISG Luxury Management * ISG Sport Business Management, in partnership with the

National Basketball Association The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United S ...

(NBA) * ISTH * ICS Bégué * ISEFAC *

Institut supérieur européen de formation par l'action The Institut supérieur européen de formation par l'action (ISEFAC) is a French private business school created in 2000. Located at Paris, Lille, Nice, Bordeaux, Lyon, Nantes, and Brussels, the school provides two courses: ISEFAC Bachelor and ...

* MOD'SPE Paris * XP School

Technology

* École pour l'informatique et les techniques avancées EPITA (IT engineering College) * École spéciale de mécanique et électricité (energy engineering College) * IA Institut (Artificial intelligence College) *

Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées The Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées (IPSA), ( en, Institute of Polytechnic Science and Aeronautics) is a French private ''grande école'' in aerospace engineering located at Ivry-sur-Seine, Lyon and Toulouse, recognized by the Frenc ...

(aeronautical and aerospace engineering College) *

(biotechnology engineering College) *

* Epitech Digital * École pour l'informatique et les nouvelles technologies EPITECH *

* SecureSphere by EPITA * Supinfo * Supinfo Digital *

Education

* École des technologies numériques appliquées * Fondation IONIS * IONISx * PHG Academy

Foundation

The Fondation IONIS ("IONIS Foundation") is an independent administrative agency which was established by IONIS Education Group,Groupe Ionis - 1er opérateur privé de l'enseignement supérieur
/ref> to stimulate and foster the growth of research and social diversity in France and abroad.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Education in France Organizations established in 1980