How much does business school cost?

How much does a year of study at business school cost?

These differences are partly explained by the length of the programme, which runs from three to four years depending on the school for a Bachelor or a BBA, and by differences in positioning between institutions. Nor is it set in stone: according to Diplomeo, business school tuition fees rose by a little under 3% between 2025 and 2026, a trend to keep in mind if you are comparing several schools before applying. Above all, remember that these figures describe the market as a whole: they do not replace each institution's own fees, which you should check directly on our programmes page.

Why do business schools charge fees?

At Excelia Business School, charging tuition fees is a matter of status, not a commercial strategy. The school belongs to FESIC, a network of private non-profit schools that receives a state grant far more limited than that of a public institution, and that must therefore top up its funding with the fees asked of families in order to keep running. This money feeds no profit distributed elsewhere: it is fully reinvested in your education, as the school's non-profit status requires, year after year.

This is also what sets it apart from a public university. The two models simply rely on different sources of funding, which says nothing about the quality of either, and each funds its mission in its own way. What you pay here therefore directly funds your education and its day-to-day running, within a private non-profit school, without being a disguised commercial argument.

How can you fund your studies at business school?

Faced with this cost, several options genuinely exist, and they are often combined. The most significant remains work-study, which covers a large share of tuition fees, including for candidates admitted through direct entry: several programmes offer it, as our page on work-study at Excelia Business School explains. According to Diplomeo, the need-based grant or work-study is, moreover, offered in a growing number of programmes.

In practice, funding is rarely built around a single solution. Most often it combines several sources:

• family savings
• public grants and aid, such as those from Crous or for mobility
• work-study
• paid internships
• and, if needed, a student loan

Depending on your situation, explore the details of each scheme, starting with the grants and aid available to fund your studies.

To turn these options into a concrete amount, you can calculate a personalised estimate of your study fees at Excelia Business School: the simulator takes into account your profile and the programme you are considering to approximate the actual budget to plan for.