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About HEC Paris

HEC Paris students learn how to think critically, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with people very different from themselves. The school considers itself the alma mater of CEOs, claiming to have graduated the heads of more Fortune Global 500 companies than any other university in Europe.

The program’s reputation and international scope have grown in recent years – its regularly ranked amongst the top three European business schools by the Financial Times, and on average, 90% of students hail from outside France.

HEC stands out for offering a 16-month program of study with two intakes: January and September. This occupies a unique space between the one-year programs like INSEAD and traditional two-year programs. The 16-month program offers the intensity of an accelerated program while allowing students to pursue an internship or fieldwork project for one of the four-month segments.

Many students have taken advantage of this option to gain entry to their post-MBA employers in cities like London, Paris, New York and Hong Kong. As part of the Paris Saclay Innovation Cluster, HEC Paris is able to attract some of the most innovative partners to work alongside students.

HEC has also formed significant double degree partnerships with schools like Yale and NYU in the U.S., LSE in the UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong and Tsinghua University in Beijing, creating diverse global opportunities to experience two international schools with their full alumni networks and career services.

HEC is also known renowned for inaugurating and hosting the MBA Olympics – the MBAT – which is the largest gathering of MBA students in Europe. HEC oversees this three-day, multisport competition for, on average, 1,500 participants from 15 leading international business schools.

Strengths and Specializations

Marketing, strategy, entrepreneurship, finance, leadership, social impact

Graduating Class of 2024

MBA Class Size: 243

Avg. Work Experience: 6 years

Avg. Age: 30

Avg. GMAT – 690 

International Students: 95% 

Female Students: 38%

Tuition: €98,000

Post-MBA Careers (class of 2022)

Career Sectors: Consulting 25%;  Technology 23%; Finance 15%; Retail & Luxury 8%

Top Recruiters: Amazon, Bain & Company, BCG, Deloitte, Deutsche Telecom, DHL Consulting,  EY, Infosys, Global Praxis, Google Hilti, Kearney, KPMG, McKinsey, Microsoft, Petronas, Roland Berger, Simon Kutcher & Partners, Uber, Wipro

Avg. Base Salary: $115,827; Salary Increase: 133% (source: FT Rankings 2024)

Employment accepted within 3 months of graduation: 92% 

HEC Paris Rankings

Admissions 

Two Intakes: January and September each year

Deadlines: 

HEC January 2025 Intake Deadlines

APPLICATION DEADLINE*

DECISION DATE*

DEADLINE TO CONFIRM*

15 January 2024 16 February 2024 15 March 2024
12 February 2024 15 March 2024 14 April 2024
13 March 2024** 19 April 2024 18 May 2024
15 April 2024 17 May 2024 16 June 2024
20 May 2024 21 June 2024 20 July 2024
17 June 2024 19 July 2024 18 August 2024
19 August 2024 20 September 2024 19 October 2024
16 September 2024 18 October 2024 17 November 2024
14 October 2024 15 November 2024 12 December 2024
12 November 2024 13 December 2024 31 December 2024

HEC September 2025 Intake Deadlines

APPLICATION DEADLINE*

DECISION DATE*

DEADLINE TO CONFIRM*

19 August 2024 20 September 2024 19 October 2024
16 September 2024 18 October 2024 17 November 2024
14 October 2024 15 November 2024 12 December 2024
12 November 2024 13 December 2024 14 January 2025
16 December 2024 17 January 2025 13 February 2025

Essays

  1. Why are you applying to the HEC MBA Program now? What is the professional objective that will guide your career choice after your MBA, and how will the HEC MBA contribute to the achievement of this objective?

  1. What do you consider your most significant life achievement?

  1. Leadership and ethics are inevitably intertwined in the business world. Describe a situation in which you have dealt with these issues and how they have influenced you.

  1. Imagine a life entirely different from the one you now lead, what would it be?

  1. Please choose from one of the following essays:

    a) What monument or site would you advise a first-time visitor to your country or city to discover, and why? 
    b) Certain books, movies or plays have had an international success that you believe to be undeserved. Choose an example and analyse it.
    c)
    What figure do you most admire and why? You may choose from any field (arts, literature, politics, business, etc). 

        1. Is there any additional information you would like to share with us? (900 words)

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