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General Presentation

This Institute was set up in 1956 by Gaston Berger and Professor Robert Goetz and at the beginning offered just one course, a Certificate in Corporate Management.

The Certificate in Corporate Management is aimed particularly at engineers, lawyers and all those who wish to acquire management skills. In 1974, the certificate was officially transformed into a vocational postgraduate degree.

When the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne was created, the Institute was incorporated into the new structure, first as a teaching and research department, then in 1990 as an affiliated Public Institution. It is one of the two centres of business management teaching and research at the university.

Since the Institute mainly offers courses in continuing education, one of the prerequisites for most courses is that the applicant must have professional experience. Courses are specially tailored to this target population and classes are organised not only during the day but also in the evening. Distance learning is also very much part of the Institute's philosophy.

In addition to the vocational postgraduatedegree in Corporate Management, there are seven other vocational postgraduate degrees in Management and Audit, Finance, Business and Marketing Practices, Human Resources, Information and Knowledge Systems, Production Systems Management, Engineering and Management of Non-Profit Making Entities, and one academic postgraduate degree in Applied Organisation. More recently, the Paris Institute of Corporate Management has introduced courses where the students have apprentice status. Six such courses exist, one of which (Computing and Management) is organised in collaboration with the university. Last but not least, the vocational slant of the Institute's activities has been reinforced by the introduction of the university's first purely vocational degree in Trade and Distribution.

In the future, more emphasis will be put on international activities, with some courses being run abroad, and staff and student exchanges developed and encouraged.

Over the next few years the goals of the Paris Institute of Corporate Management are to consolidate its position, develop its research activities through the GreGor research centre, confirm its international outlook and strengthen ties with the economic fabric of society (more than 20,700 Paris Institute graduates are currently working in companies in France and abroad).