École supérieure de commerce et management

The ESCEM School of Business and Management (French: "École Supérieure de Commerce et Management") was a business school located in Tours, Orléans and Poitiers in France which is now renamed Excelia Business School.^[2]

Ecole Supérieure de Commerce Et Management

Motto	Intégrité - Engagement - Curiosité - Humilité
Type	Grande Ecole
Established	1998 [1]
Students	2,800
Location	Tours-Poitiers , France 47°21′53″N 0°42′16″E (Tour) 46°34′51″N 0°20′35″E (Poitiers)
Affiliations	AACSB
Website	www.excelia-group.fr

One of ESCEM's buildings in Tours.

ESCEM was formed through the merger between the business schools ESC Tours (1982) and ESC Poitiers (1961) in 1998^[3] as well as EGC Orléans in 2012. With a yearly enrolment of about 2'600 business students, ESCEM awarded around 15 different qualifications from Bachelor to Masters level degrees.^[4] ESCEM was a former member of Conférence des Grandes Écoles and successively obtained the AACSB and EQUIS accreditation.^[5] In 2012, it initiated the project of France Business School.^[6][7]

In September 2016, Sup de Co La Rochelle took a majority share of ESCEM.^[8]

In 2020 ESCEM joined Sup de Co La Rochelle and formed Excelia,^[2] a higher education group composed of three main campuses in La Rochelle, Tours and Orléans. It is structured as five schools offering programs from Bachelor (Bac+3) to Master level (Bac+5):

• Excelia Business School
• Excelia Tourism & Hospitality School
• Excelia Digital School
• Excelia Academy
• Excelia Executive Education

Excelia has 4,550 students and about 40,000 alumni.^{[citation needed]}