Audencia Nantes School of Management

Audencia Business School is a business school in France, accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA), European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS), and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). The school enrolls 3000 students from almost 50 countries in its 16 programmes: bachelors, international masters, specialised masters, MBAs and executive education courses.

Audencia is consistently ranked in the top six business schools in France.

History

Founded in 1900 as the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Nantes, until 1970 the school occupied the building which is today home to the city’s natural history museum. It then moved into a purpose-built campus of 23,000 m² to the north of the city centre opposite Nantes University.

In 2000, the school changed its name to Audencia Nantes School of Management. The name "Audencia" is a blend of two words: audientia, which means "listening," and audacia or "boldness."

Institution

Audencia is a non-profit making association supervised by the city of Nantes, the local council and the chamber of commerce and industry. As of July 1, 2010, the school assumed management responsibility of Sciencescom (the communication and media school) and the Ecole Atlantique de Commerce, so offering a programme portfolio from Bachelor to PhD level.