La Défense – Europe’s largest purpose-built business district
With more than 2 million inhabitants and different waves of migration, Paris is a cosmopolitan and multicultural city. Each neighborhood is full of small restaurants and bars, stores where you can find original pieces.
As France’s capital, Paris is a major source of culture, history, fashion, food, and more. The city’s rich cultural and historical base, coupled with its tendency to transform and develop, makes Paris an innovative and dynamic city.
Paris, as one of the most influential economic capitals in the world, is naturally the economic capital of France and its first stock exchange location. With more than 130 000 companies and more than 1 300 000 employees, Paris is the first employment in France.
Study in Europe’s Main Business Hub
Located within 30 minutes by public transportation from the center of Paris, La Défense attracts both large global groups as well as SMEs and start-ups.
In addition to its 3 million square meters of office facilities, La Défense is also home to 25,000 residents, 45,000 students, an open-air museum and a shopping center. The La Défense location of IÉSEG’s Paris campus is a strategic plus. Established primarily to strengthen IÉSEG’s links with French and international companies, it has enhanced the institution’s international reputation and visibility. It also allows its students to be at the heart of the European business world from the beginning of their education.
La Défense is the 4th most attractive business district in the world with 3,600 companies, including 1,500 headquarters
180,000 employees working at La Défense
A pleasant working area according to 93% of those surveyed (Source: BVA barometer results, Paris La Défense, December 2019)
A modern campus at the center of a business environment
3 buildings on the campus “La Défense”: “Grande Arche”, “Promenade de l’Arche” and “Collines de l’Arche” buildings
More than 3,000 students
A wide variety of modern and functional facilities, including lecture halls, classrooms, multimedia rooms, trading rooms, a library, two cafeterias, meeting rooms, etc.
Access to IÉSEG’s own library, but also to university and online libraries as well
Facilities for clubs and associations
Discover the campus in pictures
Overview of the IÉSEG campuses 
Visit the Grande Arche building Visit the Promenade de l’Arche building
The Paris Campus Library
KL’Hub
The KL’Hub or Knowledge Learning HUB is open to the entire IÉSEG community where everyone can come at his or her own pace to work individually in a quiet environment or in small groups, to get information and to learn from documentation professionals, to search in the numerous paper and electronic resources on site, and via partner documentation networks, for all the academic documents needed for courses, projects, reports, and theses.
“Bibliothèque Numérique en Réseau” (BNR)
BNR is a numerical source of documentation. From its website, you can have access to databases. You can find a lot of academic papers and newspapers in each management’s area.