Le Parisien's annual ranking of the Grand Ecoles has been up-dated. The top three are, as always, HEC, ESSEC and ESCP Europe. EDHEC's continuing rise is noted here too, with EMLyon again in fifth place.

Grenoble, KEDGE and SKEMA have almost the same score, while the top dozen is rounded out with Audencia, ESC Montpellier and Toulouse- again in joint place - and finally ESC Rennes. IESEG, ICN and NEOMA come next (NEOMA's low rank is the only realy surprise). The full ranking is at http://etudiant.aujourdhui.fr/etudiant/info/palmares-des-ecoles-de-commerce-du-parisien.html and it's worth comparing to this 2012 ranking: http://board.find-mba.com/europe/2012-french-b-school-ranking-from-challenges-19783

Large Business Schools 2015 Rank

HEC 1
ESSEC 2
ESCP Europe 3
EDHEC Lille 4
EM - EMLyon Business School 4
GEM - Grenoble Ecole de Management 6
KEDGE Business School 7
SKEMA Business School 7
AUDENCIA 9
ESC Montpellier 9
TBS - Toulouse Business School 9
ESC Rennes School of Business 12
IESEG School of Management 13
ICN Business School 14
NEOMA Business School 15
PSB Paris School of Business (Ex ESG MS) 16
EM Strasbourg 17
EM Normandie 18
INSEEC Business School 18
ISC Paris (Higher Institute of Commerce) 18
Burgundy School 21
ESC Troyes 21
ESSCA Angers 21
TELECOM Ecole de Management 24
EDC Paris Business School 25
Ipag BS - IPAG Business School 25
ESCE - School of Foreign Trade 27
EBS European Business School Paris 28
ESC La Rochelle 28
Novancia - Business School Paris 30
ISTEC 31
ICD Paris 32
Idrac - Business School 33
ESDES Lyon 33
ESC Pau 35
ESC Clermont-Ferrand 36

[Edited by Duncan on May 26, 2015]

Yes, interesting that Neoma is ranked (relatively) lower than Reims and Rouen were in 2012. Could it be a reputation issue? Maybe Reims and Rouen were more highly regarded but now people might be a bit unsure about what this Neoma is. I don't know, just speculating.

If you take a look at online ranking itself you can see that the Neoma has the same scores as SKEMA on the published criteria, but in the full ranking in the magazine there are more detailed scores: http://bit.ly/1KDbaAu Reputation isn't directly part of the scores.