The saying ‘put everyone on an equal footing’ seems definitively outdated in the world of higher education. While HEC has just crossed the symbolic barrier of 70,000 euros in tuition fees, this widespread increase raises a central question: how far will these price increases go?
In 2015, it cost 41,250 euros to study for four years – including a gap year – at HEC Paris. In 2025, it will cost 71,750 euros according to the Major Prepa site. Over a year, the tuition fees of this business school have increased by 6%. And this institute is far from being the only one to increase its prices. 4%, 8% and up to 16%… Post-preparatory business schools continue to inflate prices, making these business studies increasingly elitist.
Less subsidies, more investments
If North American and even European schools are far from being accessible, French business schools are considered as a special place in the tricolored educational landscape dotted with almost free universities and more affordable schools. « In a position and salary equal to graduation (in the council for example, which recruits both managers and engineers), at an academic level and with equivalent merit, the engineer will have paid up to ten times less for his school. However, the reasons for this gap are structural, and this should not change in the medium term,” explains Major Prepa.
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