Institut Mines-Télécom Business School (formerly known as ''INT Management'' from its foundation in 1979 to its rebranding in 2009 then Telecom Business School from 2009 to 2018) is a French state-funded Management School, a member of

Institut Mines-Télécom Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) is a French public academic institution dedicated to Higher Education and Research for Innovation in the fields of engineering and digital technology, organized as a Collegiate University. Created in 1996, it was o ...

, the biggest group of engineering and management graduate schools in France. It is also a member of the Management School Chapter of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles, of

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(European Foundation for Management Development),

AACSB The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) is an American professional and accreditation organization. It was founded as the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business in 1916 to provide accreditation to business ...

(Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) and accredited by the

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for its Masters in Management Program. The business school was initially founded as the corporate university of

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, the first telecom operator in France and formerly a public company. It is now fully independent from Orange though many partnerships remain in research, training and other different programmes. The school offers programmes taught in French or English, from bachelor level to PhD. Its main programme is the Masters in Management programme (aka Programme

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). The graduates from this programme are highly reputed among recruiters in France and abroad for their ability to work with engineers. It was ranked 75th (2019) by the

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Grande École System

Institut Mines-Télécom Business School is a ''

Grande école A (; ) is a specialized top-level educational institution in France and some other countries such as Morocco and Tunisia. are part of an alternative educational system that operates alongside the mainstream List of public universities in Franc ...

'', a French institution of

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that is separate from, but parallel and connected to the main framework of the French public university system. Similar to the

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in the United States,

Oxbridge Oxbridge is a portmanteau of the University of Oxford, Universities of Oxford and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, the two oldest, wealthiest, and most prestigious universities in the United Kingdom. The term is used to refer to them collect ...

in the UK, and

C9 League The C9 League is an inter-university seminar composed of nine public universities in China. It was established on May 4, 1998, at the 100th anniversary of Peking University. These elite universities are associated with academic excellence and ...

in China, ''Grandes Écoles'' are elite academic institutions that admit students through an extremely competitive process. Alums go on to occupy elite positions within government, administration, and corporate firms in France.

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, « Les recherches sociologiques sur les grandes écoles : de la reproduction à la recherche de justice », Éducation et sociétés 1/2008 (No. 21),
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Les inégalités sociales d’accès aux grandes écoles
(2003), INSEE Although they are more expensive than public universities in France, ''Grandes Écoles'' typically have much smaller class sizes and student bodies, and many of its programs are taught in English. International internships, study abroad opportunities, and close ties with government and the corporate world are a hallmark of the ''Grandes Écoles''. Many of the top-ranked business schools in Europe are members of the '' Conférence des Grandes Écoles'' ''(CGE)'', as is Institut Mines-Télécom Business School, and out of the 250 business schools in France, only 39 are ''CGE'' members. Degrees from Institut Mines-Télécom Business School are accredited by the ''Conférence des Grandes Écoles'' and awarded by the

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(). Institut Mines-Télécom Business School is further accredited by the elite international business school accrediting organizations and it holds double accreditation: The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and Association of MBAs (AMBA) In 2022, the

ranked its Masters in Management program 52nd in the world.

Research

The main research lab from Institut Mines-Télécom Business School is the LITEM, which is common with

University of Paris-Saclay Paris-Saclay University (, ) is a combined Research institute, technological research institute and Public university, public research university in Orsay, France. Paris-Saclay was established in 2019 after the merger of four technical ''grandes ...

. Many research programmes are developed in cooperation with other schools from IMT. IMT Business School's research focuses on digital innovation and transformation,

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and ethics in the digital era. The school has several research chairs such as the Chair Values and Policies of Personal Information (Chair VPIP) and Smart Objects and Social Networks Chair. It is also a founding member of DATAIA (Institute for Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Humanity), created in common with researchers from the University of Paris Saclay,

INRIA The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics. It was created under the name French Institute for Research in Comp ...

CentraleSupélec CentraleSupélec (, CS) is one of the most prestigious and selective grandes écoles in France and is a member of the graduate engineering school of Paris-Saclay University in Gif-sur-Yvette, France. It was established on 1 January 2015, as a ...

, CEA,

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

École Polytechnique (, ; also known as Polytechnique or l'X ) is a ''grande école'' located in Palaiseau, France. It specializes in science and engineering and is a founding member of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris. The school was founded in 1794 by mat ...

HEC Paris HEC Paris () is a business school and ''grande école'' located in Jouy-en-Josas, a southwestern outer suburb of Paris, France. It offers Bachelor, MiM, MSc in International Finance, MBA, EMBA, executive education, professional developm ...

and Université d'Évry - Val d'Essonne. In 2018, the doctoral school was hosting 25 PhD students. The head of the doctoral school is Jean-Luc Moriceau.Jean-Luc MORICEAU
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Campus

Together with

Télécom SudParis Télécom SudParis (formerly known as Télécom INT) is a French ''engineering school''—a public institution of higher education and research (grande école) that awards engineering degrees in France. In 2025, it ranked 27th in the French eng ...

, IMT Business School share the IMT campus in Évry. Almost all students are accommodated on campus. Students from

and IMT Business School share most of the student life aspects during their life on campus: shared apartments, shared student associations, shared classes and pedagogical programmes such as the famous Challenge Projets d'Entreprendre, a one-week competition which has, since its first edition in 2000, inspired many other business schools to build their own "startup creation challenges" programmes.

Grande École System

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