Graduate Employability: Top Universities in France as Ranked By Employers

Top five French universities for graduate employability

We’ve taken a look at the top five French universities according to their employability scores. French Grandes Écoles are known to do particularly well in these rankings!

#2 HEC Paris

At HEC Paris, you can choose from a number of research areas including Accounting, Finance and Marketing for your PhD. Since its inception, 90% of all HEC Paris graduates have found careers in top academic institutions around the world including London School of Economics and Harvard Business School. It is also the alma mater of former French President François Hollande!

#3 Ècole Polytechnique

Ècole Polytechnique used to be a military university in the times of Napoleon I in the 1800’s but now focuses on providing quality postgraduate programmes in Science and Technology. You can benefit from a number of industry research partnerships and graduates have gone on to work with Total, IBM and the European Commission among many others.

#4 EMLyon Business School

One of France’s oldest Business schools, EMLyon emphasises entrepreneurship, having incubated more than 1,400 startups since the inception of its Entrepreneur Centre in 1984. The school has forged strong connections with international companies like IBM and academic institutions alike. EMLyon Business School also works with Durham University to give students a Global DBA programme. Graduates have found themselves working with internationally renowned companies like Accenture, Chanel and KPMG