In today’s context of change, Rennes School of Business’ Sustainable
Executive MBA (EMBA) is a key training program for leaders aspiring to
transform challenges into opportunities. Focused on sustainability issues
and adapted to the volatile realities of the global world, this program aims
to develop skills in advanced management, ethical leadership and social
responsibility.Offering an immersive learning experience on the Rennes campus, the
Sustainable EMBA relies on interactive pedagogy for a deep understanding
of sustainability in business. This program will equip you to lead with
purpose, innovate responsibly, and drive meaningful change in the world.
Key benefits of the program
Challenge your business perspective and develop innovative leadership skills to adapt to the evolving economic landscape.
Unlock your full potential as an ethical leader, expanding your general management knowledge and enhancing your expertise to drive impactful change.
Choose a major of specialization that aligns with your career goals and expertise.
Embark a transformative international study tour, gaining valuable exposure to global business environments.
Benefit from consulting opportunities and personalized coaching, tailored to your individual personal and professional growth.
Build long-lasting professional connections with a high potential international cohort.
A LEADER IN WORLD-CLASS EDUCATION
For over 30 years, Rennes School of Business has been a leader in world-class education. Our Executive MBA is consistently recognized in global rankings like the Financial Times and QS, which highlight:
Career Advancement
Significant salary growth and leadership opportunities after
graduation.
Alumni Success
High satisfaction and a strong, diverse international network.
Program Quality
An innovative, globally-focused curriculum taught by expert faculty.
Diversity & Inclusion
A rich mix of participants from various industries and cultures.
Global Recognition
A credential highly valued by employers worldwide.
Rennes SB Executive MBA in the 2024 Financial Times Global Ranking
In 2024, the Financial Times released its Executive MBA (EMBA) rankings, evaluating the top 100 programs worldwide. The rankings assess key factors such as alumni career progression, salary increases, and program diversity, ensuring the highest standards of academic and professional excellence.
Key Highlights:
95% Success Rate: Between 2020 and 2022.
91% Satisfaction Rate: Between 2020 and 2024.
Official Certification: RNCP Level 7 certification (Bac+5), recognized and eligible for CPF funding (RNCP38003).
Objectives
Our Sustainable Executive MBA is more than a degree; it’s a catalyst for transforming both your career and your business. By embarking on this program, you are making a commitment to personal development, thought leadership, and a responsible business future. Shape the Future with Vision, Innovation and Responsibility.Co-construct a future where you are at the forefront of positive change.
Personal objectives
Acquire strategic insights and exceptional managerial skills. Our Sustainable Executive MBA prepares you to take the lead in a fast-moving world.
Improve your ability to make judicious decisions in the complex and uncertain environment of international business. We prepare you to face these challenges with confidence.
Transform your business process approach by embracing innovation and adopting new ways of thinking. Our program encourages you to push the conventional boundaries to achieve excellence.
Develop leadership skills adapted to multicultural and multigenerational teams, preparing the foundations for an inclusive work environment that respects the diversity of talents and perspectives.
Corporate objectives
Understand the real benefits of sustainable practices, including substantial cost savings and efficiency improvements. Our Sustainable Executive MBA Sustainable program highlights how sustainability can be synonymous with cost-efficiency.
Understand the importance of corporate social responsibility in minimizing environmental impact and contributing to a more sustainable future. We help you develop ethical and environmentally friendly business practices.
Analyze the increasing trend among consumers towards eco-friendly products and services, and how your company can respond effectively to this demand to position itself advantageously in the market.
Implementation of an ethical, sustainable and responsible management style in a multicultural environment.
Participant profiles
The programme is open to people with an undergraduate degree and a minimum of 5 years’ professional experience, including 3 years in a management position.
C-Levels & Entrepreneurs
High-Tech and Technical Professionals
Middle Career Executives
International Experts
Operational Managers
Managers in Career Transition
A Commitment to Excellence and Sustainability
At the heart of our Sustainable Executive MBA program, you’ll find personalities driven by a burning desire to learn, grow and align their actions with their values. These are professionals who have not only proven their merit in the business world, but also seek to transcend the traditional boundaries of leadership and management.
Management experience: The Key to Added Value
Management experience, whether in project management or team leadership, is essential. Our participants bring a knowledge and experience that collectively enriches the program, facilitating an invaluable exchange between peers. Their expertise is essential for adding depth to discussions, broadening perspectives and maximizing mutual learning.
Personalized approach to admissions
We recognize the diversity of each candidate. That’s why we take a personalized approach to the admissions process, taking the time to understand key aspects of your life and professional experiences. This meticulous attention enables us to assess your potential for long-term management and leadership, ensuring that every participant can make a significant contribution to the program and benefit fully from what we have to offer.
Vision of a Professional Project
Having a clear vision of a professional project is not only a source of inspiration but also a powerful motivating force for our participants. This ambition serves as the foundation of their Executive MBA pathway, guiding them towards achieving their professional goals and surpassing their aspirations.
A mosaic of talent
Our participants come from diverse backgrounds, sectors and functions, each bringing their own unique color to the mosaic of our Sustainable Executive MBA program. This diversity is the cornerstone of our learning community, where ideas cross paths, perspectives diversify and innovations are born.
Diverse & Inclusive Excellence
The 29 EMBA cohort at Rennes School of Business have averaged: The 29 EMBA cohort at Rennes School of Business have averaged:
46% women,
54% men,
Approximately 20 participants,
15 nationalities (40% international),
45 years of age and 15 years of professional experience.
The campus is accessible to disabled people.If you have a disability, please contact our disability department (feel.good@rennes-sb.com) to find out how we can help you.
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Program
The Executive MBA of Rennes School of Business provides a truly formative experience. You will explore a wide range of skills in class and beyond, and meet professionals from all walks of life, industries, cultures and nationalities. The exchange of ideas, sharing of experiences and group work are at the heart of the learning process.
Professors use students’ professional experience to illustrate and apply different concepts. Case studies, oral presentations, work in small groups, role plays and digital simulations all play an important role in training.
Guest speakers and speakers from major international groups help anchor the teaching in concrete examples and share their leadership experience.
Individual and collective work outside of classes is also a key part of the learning process. Students will apply the concepts they learned during their training in their daily activity. Their success is then assessed by their teachers.
UNDERSTANDING THE EVOLUTION OF THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
Develop a resilient leadership mindset, ready to embrace global challenges with courage and determination.
Immerse yourself in crucial issues such as global warming and biodiversity loss, to understand their impact on global business.
Experience the change to sustainable practices at first hand, through real-life case studies and visits to Estonian and Finnish companies. The study tour is organized in partnership with Estonian Business School.
Take part in impactful, conviction-driven dialogues with speakers and members of your class to fully grasp the scope of corporate social responsibility.
BUSINESS STRATEGY FOR SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE
Use the global limits as a basis for informed strategic analysis and decision-making.
Understand marketing techniques in an era when consumers are focusing on sustainability and ethics.
Build IT into your strategy to achieve zero net impact.
Boost innovation and creativity to stay at the cutting edge of knowledge management in an ever-changing world.
RESPONSIBLE OPERATIONS AND FINANCE MANAGEMENT
Learn how to use international sustainability standards in reporting and financial accounting.
Include ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) criteria in accounting and management control.
Develop skills in operational management and responsible finance for environmental efficiency and strong ethics.
EXCELLENCE AND FLEXIBILITY
Develop your leadership skills and understand the behavioral dynamics needed to lead with vision.
Gain expertise in cross-cultural negotiation and adopt an agile approach to change management.
PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Create a sales strategy that combines global impact and local awareness.
Learn how to engage and coach effectively, maximizing your team’s potential.
Get involved in practical simulations and consulting projects to apply your knowledge in real-life scenarios.
Finish your EMBA course with an ambitious project that synthesizes your learning and prepares your transition to enlightened, sustainable leadership.
A SPECIALIST MAJOR
Innovation & entrepreneurship
Digital transformation & Artificial Intelligence
Admission
Navigating your EMBA journey requires determination, investment, and structure. Our admission process is
simple, fast, and can be adapted to your professional schedule. You will be accompanied throughout the
procedure by our admissions managers. The process of inscription consists of several key stages:
1. Benefit of personalized assessment
Share your professional project with a career advisor to align your
goals and aspirations with the program.
2. Apply
Submit your CV, cover letter, and supporting materials to showcase your qualifications and career
progression.
3. Admission Interview
Participate in an interview to assess your suitability for the program, your goals, and
motivations.
4. Book Your Seat (Registration Fees)
Secure your place in the program by paying the registration fees.
5. Define Your Financial Strategy
Determine how you will finance your studies, exploring options like
company sponsorship, personal savings, or external financial aid.
6. Get Enrolled
Once all steps are completed, officially enroll and begin preparing for your academic
journey.
Application & Interview
Application form to be completed on our platform where you will be asked to provide information on your career path and experience, your motivating factors, your career plan, etc.
Interview with the Programme Director, which consists of a period of exchange to ensure that our academic offer is in line with your expectations and your project. It will also be an opportunity to discuss current topics, your vision of current business trends, etc. Following the interview, an assessment report is published by the Programme Director to measure the quality of your application.
An admissions panel meets each week to assess and validate the applications received. You then receive your admissions letter by email. The admissions officer with the processes for funding and publishing your training agreement.
Financial aid
There are many funding schemes for vocational training depending on your situation, a non-exhaustive list is given below:
CPF Personal Training Account
Company skills development plan
OPCO contribution (for companies with fewer than 50 employees)
Individual Training Assistance (Pôle Emploi)
Assistance from the Région Qualifemploi (for job seekers)
The professional transition project – CPF de transition (formerly CIF)
Start Date
October 2025
Duration
18 months
Location
Rennes
Tuition Fees
€37,200 (including VAT)
Certification
RNCP - CPF certified
career
Joining our Executive Education programmes gives you the means to add direction to your career. Rennes School of Business has a number of measures at your disposal to guide your career, develop your network, work on your personal objectives or meet our recruitment partners.
Individual coaching
Lifetime membership of the network of more than 26,000 Alumni
Thematic conferences
Partnership between Abaka and Happy to Meet You
Workshops
Why Rennes SB?
THE SCHOOL THAT SHAPES UNFRAMED LEADERS
At a time when the world is undergoing radical change, and
making environmental and societal issues are vital, when
technological change is accelerating, when new business
models with a positive impact are emerging, and when new
generations are eager to embrace a new economy.Unframed Thinking is increasingly the driving force that
spurs on our learners to challenge the status quo to innovate
in the quest for ga better world: one that is more creative,
more collective, and more sustainable.
To train these Unframed Leaders, we propose a new 2024-2028
strategic plan for our School, which aims to be one of the most
multicultural, innovative and impactful Management Schools.
Unframed Thinking is increasingly the driving force that
spurs on our learners to challenge the status quo to innovate
in the quest for ga better world: one that is more creative,
more collective, and more sustainable.
Building the foundations of new leadership
Rennes SB is ideally placed to train the Unframed
Leaders the world needs. Creative people and those
creating new ideas hes, reports, and more. It all
depends on the purpose of your presentation.
CREATE
UNFRAMED LEADERS ARE CURIOUS
AND THINK CIRTICALLY
Profitable for the company and profitable
for the planet and society: this calls for
new ways of thinking, new ways of doing
things, integration of new technologies,
new conceptions of business models. Itcalls for new creativity in the service of all-
round performance.
connect
UNFRAMED LEADERS BUILD STRONG
NETWORKS AND CONNECT BROADLY
In a post-industrial era that is continuing
with the emergence of a socio-economic
system that is complex, we need leaders
who are aware that the challenges facing
society can only be solved together by
looking through different eyes and cultural
intelligence, and by connecting with
others.
change
UNFRAMED LEADERS
AIM TO INNOVATE FOR A BETTER WORLD
Beyond traditional business processes
based on trend analysis and long-term
plans, we need to equip leaders with the
necessary toolbox to change the face of
performance
share your project with a dedicated career advisor
