In the IAE, called University Business Schools, we have as a mission to provide our students with training in sciences of management in Bachelor, Master and Phd to allow each of them to enhance its potential and access in optimum conditions to the labor market.
Enrolled in logics of diversity in their areas and with over 50 years of existence, the IAE has acquired a strong reputation in professional circles and are regularly recognized for their excellent employability rate.
Major players of training in management in France, the IAE are defined as university business schools and highlight thelabel "IAE" as the brand of sciences of management in French Higher Public Education.
The Réseau IAE includes 31 schools, representing more than 800 degrees, 40,000 students and 1,200 professors and researchers, involved with more than 6000 professional experts. In combination with 32 laboratories of scientific research , they actively support research in sciences of management .
In a period of profound structural changes, also in the french universitry landscape and in the sector of training and research in sciences of management, the IAE assert themselves as central actors of french higher education. Creating numerous links between education, research and practice of management, they meet the multiple social demands and needs of companies, while questioning and creating meaning. The IAE are united in promoting their recognized model of Business Schools in french universities.
Jérôme Rive
President of the Réseau IAE
Dean of the IAE Lyon




