And they will be implanted on technology parks

No "business school" of the hexagon had dared, Skema did. From school of the reconciliation of the ESC Lille and the Ceram has just announced its implementation in the United States in Raleigh, North Carolina. After Casablanca, the Morocco, and Suzhou in China, it is the third site of school abroad.

With the new campus, Skema continues to apply an original strategy, committed last year: "we do we install not in large cities, but on sites with high sustainable growth, where both innovative companies, academic institutions and international business centres, says Alice Guilhon, Executive Director of group.". Our goal is to be present where invents the world of tomorrow, and to prepare our students to be players in the knowledge economy. "Raleigh is in effect the first American Technology Park. There are many firms innovative, especially in the computer and the "Biotech", 15 universities and research laboratories. The same model as Sophia-Antipolis and Suzhou, therefore. Skema also concluded an agreement with the Research Triangle Park Raleigh's Foundation, including to carry out research work with Sophia and Suzhou. And the operation has received the support of the State of Carolina North and the Consulate of France.

Raleigh, Skema will settle in the Centennial Campus infrastructure, under an agreement with the North Carolina State University. It will be there, as a first step, 2,500 square metres of space on a verdant site - before joining a site "on measure" in two or three years, 4000 square metres in a new building. Students will benefit also a gigantic media of sports equipment "to the American" (in other words, immense and high level), a service of restoration... "The vast majority of our students dream of studying in the United States," said Deputy Brandinelli, Director Régis Skema." On the spot, they will be in contact with American students and foreign students come from around the world.

Brazil, next destination

Starting next January, 300 first students of 2nd 3eannées Skema, duly selected, therefore take possession of American campus for one semester. The school plans to operate in close liaison with NCSU, including student exchanges. In the program, a master in finance market, a part of the cycle bachelor, continuous training seminars... Students will also be in contact with local businesses (including Cisco, IBM, SAS, Lenovo, Nortel...), in which they will be able to perform internships. Education will be provided, for the most part, by professors of Skema - including several Americans, in recruitment. Discussions are also underway with two other deemed universities, Chapel Hill and Duke.

In return, the school can accommodate more foreign students at its three sites of Lille, Sophia, Paris, France. What boost the incomes of the school, and enable it to achieve a total workforce of 6,000 students by 2012. Skema will thus constitute a "business school international multi-campus".

Moreover, Skema account rest there. Medium term, the group plans to open new campus in the world, including at the Brazil, then India. Always designed on the same model, they will both provide an academic background and professional experience as a business internship, in an international context. And they will be implanted on technology parks.