France is always well-represented in the Financial Times rankings, but in 2023, the country’s top business schools really made a collective statement, with five schools in the top 11 of the Master in Management list and five in the top nine — including the top four schools overall — in the Pre-Experience Master in Finance ranking. What makes France’s master in management and master in finance programs so exceptional? Poets&Quants gathered the perspectives of deans at Neoma, ESSEC, and Emlyon whose programs all ranked in the top 25 in FT’s 2023 MiM ranking.