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The QS Executive MBA 2025 ranking, which has just been published, sets out to rank “the best Executive MBA programmes in the world”. In this new ranking, in which HEC has climbed to 2nd place worldwide, France is proud to announce a total 14 institutions, one more than last year. With two schools in the Top 10, France ranks 3rd worldwide.

All the Europe of research was in Paris on 5 May! At the initiative of French president Macron, a meeting was organised at the Sorbonne with European Commission president Van der Leyen to gather the biggest names of European research, university deans, research representatives and big companies. The objective was to officially launch the Choose Europe for Science initiative and show how France and Europe can be places of stability and academic freedom for researchers all over the world.

The CNRS “Fellow-Ambassadors” programme has welcomed nine new prestigious figures from world research to serve the scientific community. This scheme was set up in 2023 in the academic tradition of “eminent visiting professors” and enables leading world research figures to galvanise French research. With this year’s eminent researchers, the CNRS welcomes an alumnus this year, Soeren Fournais, from Denmark, a specialist in the mathematical aspects of quantum mechanics, who attended several study courses at the University of Paris Sud (now University of Paris Saclay).