The ongoing internationalisation of Audencia Nantes is confirmed at the start of the new academic year by its full-time MBA programme welcoming for the first time in the school’s history students from Azerbaijan, Egypt and the Sudan.

Almost a third of the new MBA participants come from African nations – by far the largest presence recorded from this continent since the programme’s founding in 1984.

Just over 70% of Audencia International MBA’s 2008-2009 intake are non-French with ten nationalities represented. This year’s student body also breaks Audencia’s record for the number of women on the programme – 38%.

As recently as 2002 the school’s English-language MBA was taught to a class made up entirely of French students.

This process of diversification is confirmed by the 2008-2009 intake for the International Master in Management (IMM), a programme proposed by Audencia in partnership with Bradford University School of Management, EADA Barcelona and LKAEM Warsaw.

This year, 14 different nationalities are present among IMM students, compared to a total of just seven last year. As a result, 75% of the new IMM participants are non-French – a new standard for the programme.