The American Business School was established in 1985 and is one of the first English-speaking business schools in France modeled on American undergraduate business education and has established links with several renowned American universities. Today, the American Business School has over 700 alumni working in over 22 countries in marketing, finance, import/export and sales positions. Since its inception, the American Business School has attracted students from all around the world and has evolved from a uniquely Franco-American vision to a completely global approach to business education. In 1995, the American Business School joined IGS (Institut de Gestion Sociale), one of France’s most dynamic private non-profit universities, an innovator in the field of practical business education.
A U.S. accredited Bachelor of Business Administration curriculum is taught entirely in English by professors who are American, or have trained in America, but who all have their own unique international experience and career paths that they bring into the classroom thus adding further experienced diversity.
With 48% French students and 52% non-French students representing 65 different nationalities, the American Business School Paris offers real diversity in the classroom. Typical feedback from study abroad students when they finish at the school is that they actually get to really meet people of different cultures and nationalities. At the American Business School Paris, small class sizes, diversity, readiness to challenge assumptions creates a real environment for cross cultural exchange and understanding. What can best be called an ignorance of what is politically correct conjugated with values such as tolerance for all forms of diversity; humanism and entrepreneurship foster a strong, challenging, broadening and self-developing learning environment.
Paris and its region is one of the major business centers in Europe and the headquarters for many multinational companies are located there. The American Business School students benefit from the proximity of these firms for internships, company visits and corporate presentations.
All French students commute so French campuses don’t have dorms, but
The American Business School can help students find housing. You can choose to stay with a host family or to
live in an apartment, with or without a roommate. Living outside the campus is a good way to make the most of Parisian life.
Grades are awarded on a U.S. scale. The letter grade on the American Business School transcript will be transferred directly back to the Washington College transcript.
A full course load at ABS is 15 credits per semester and 30 credits for the academic year. If you take a full course load at ABS, you will receive a full course load at Washington College (16 credits/semester; 32 credits/academic year). If you take less than the full course load you will NOT receive a full course load at Washington College.
| ABS Credits |
WAC Credits |
| 4 credits |
4 credits |
| 3 credits |
3 credits |
| 2 credits |
2 credits |
