Financing one's studies

On the contrary to the Grandes Ecoles d'ingénieurs, tuition fees for Grandes Ecoles de Commerce amout to at least 4 000 € per year and even more than 6 000 € for HEC, ESSEC or EDHEC. The entrance examinations cost approximately 600 € (for 10 schools). However, students may work during their studies and benefit from assistances and various loans.

Working while studying

Training periods and vocational education
Students in French Grandes Ecoles de Commerce always carry out part of their cursus in companies or other private or public organizations. Many different forms are encountered: training periods, missions, apprenticeship (remunerated according to a fraction of the minimum salary, which vary with the age of the trainee.

Juniors Entreprise
The students can carry out some works for companies within the framework of the Junior entreprise, which is generally associated with a remuneration and provide them with some professional experience.

Small jobs
The services "Emplois Temporaires Etudiants" (ETE) from the CROUS are answering the needs of employers from various sectors with students looking for a short-term or part-time job.

Various assistances and loans

The site Service-Public offers all necessary information on social assistances. The CNOUS explains the necessary steps to obtaining grants on social criteria or merit, student loans, urgent social help, loans on social and academic result criteria, and other forms of social assistance. IEDU gathers on its site several hundreds of sources of financings for students.

The local authorities (the General Councils, the Regional Councils...) offer assistances whose criteria vary from one department to another. The application files must be withdrawn in the higher educational establishment of the student before the beginning of November. The departmental Directions of Youth and Sports offer a multitude of information on the foundations helping young people in their studies and their projects. Attributed by the Ministry for Health, the "prix de la vocation scientifique et technique" aims at encouraging girls who choose to follow a scientific and technical training career. In addition, other assistances and loans are granted to children whose parents contribute to pension funds or work's councils companies.

Lastly, all the French Grandes Ecoles have concluded agreements with banks, which propose student loans at advantageous rates.