emlyon business school ranks 3rd of the French business schools for its social and environmental commitment
emlyon business school is 3rd in the first ranking of the schools addressing ecological issues, published by Les Echos START and ChangeNOw on October 25th, 2021. This new indicator aims at putting forth world-changing schools and universities delivering Masters’ degrees, to help students in choosing their training in their search for meaningful careers.
The Les Echos START – ChangeNOW ranking is designed to assess the capacity of each institution to prepare students on how to address the great environmental, social and human issues of our century. It values both the excellence of the teachings and the integration of the transition’s issues, two of the backbones of emlyon’s strategic plan “2025 Confluences”.
The numerous actions emlyon and its community undertook to train responsible leaders, able to address social and environmental issues, were assessed by Les Echos START and ChangeNOW and were found to be efficient and pertinent.
Amongst which:
- emlyon initiated an overall review of all courses against the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and with respect to the referential of CSR competences. 100% of MBA courses have already been revised and the SDGs inside strategy applied aims at labeling 100% of the training offer by 2025.
- The course “Act for climate” was made compulsory to all new students of the Grande Ecole
- For the past 15 years, the School has developed 2 sets of actions in favor of diversity and equal opportunities in high schools, colleges and preparatory classes, labeled “Cordées de la Réussite” by the Ministry of Education, to avoid students’ self-censorship. On the whole, 4,000 college students and 800 students from preparatory classes thus had the opportunity to attend such programs. More than 180 students entered top-8 business schools, including 80 of them, in emlyon.
- The School has implemented since 2016, the Responsible Commitment track as part of the Grande Ecole As part of their graduation requirements, students must get involved in field missions with social and/or environmental impact. In 2020, over 500 responsible commitments were carried out.
- More than 40 student associations are involved in impactful projects, and each has a CSR manager on its board.
- As a Société à Mission, emlyon signed off the Grenoble agreement in May 2021 in favor of the ecological transition of the French institutions in Higher Education and Research.
- The School renewed its commitment towards the UNs in March 2021, as part of the Global Compact and of the PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) as proof of its determination and future orientation (a signatory since 2006).
The ranking of schools and universities for changing the world published by Les Echos START – ChangeNOW comes out just a few days after the results of the Financial Times Executive MBA ranking , in which emlyon is number 1 of the French business schools, and number 4 worldwide on ESG criteria (Environment, Social and Governance).
For Isabelle Huault, President of the Executive Board and Dean of emlyon business school,
“Our commitment unfolds in all dimensions of the School, from programs to research; but also via a policy of social awareness, one of equal opportunities, and in the environmental management of our campuses. It is an honour for us to receive such acknowledgement about our achievements. It reinforces our conviction that it is necessary to train informed professionals able to transform organizations for a society with more solidarity, and respectful of the Planet.”
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