Temple University's Fox School of Business and ENPC School of International Management Announce Alliance.

PHILADELPHIA & PARIS -- The Fox School of Business at Temple University (in Philadelphia) and Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussees (ENPC) School of International Management (in Paris) have announced a strategic alliance for graduate business programs. The alliance brings together two highly ranked, globally renowned business schools that combined offer graduate business programs in 11 countries.

"The synergies between our respective institutions and the parallels in our current MBA programs make this an ideal partnership," says M. Moshe Porat, dean of The Fox School. "This alliance will yield immediate benefits to students, alumni and corporate partners of both institutions."

The alliance launches with a dual-degree, tri-continent, International MBA Program (IMBA), in which a student cohort migrates through a one-year study sequence from Paris to Philadelphia to Tokyo, ending with an optional study tour in Shanghai. In all locations, through co-curricular meetings with company leaders, students experience the management practices and local business culture of each region.

The IMBA Program has been delivered in a tri-continent format by The Fox School for more than a decade and has been ranked among the top 25 international business programs by U.S. News and World Report for the past three consecutive years.

The alliance between Fox and ENPC enhances the IMBA program, which can now leverage a combined network of partners in France, the U.S., China, Japan, India, Ireland, Israel, Morocco, Italy and the U.K. Also, recently, Financial Times recognized both schools as being among the best in the world for "International Mobility of Graduates."

Graduates of the Fox-ENPC Tri-Continent IMBA will earn degrees at both Temple University's Fox School and ENPC's School of International Management. "Earning both an American and European MBA will be a competitive advantage for students and will create marketable, internationally mobile alumni," said Tawfik Jelassi, dean of the ENPC School of International Management.

The IMBA, the first dual-degree collaboration between these two schools, draws on ENPC's and Fox's strengths in international business, information technology and in entrepreneurship and innovation programs. IMBA students participate in The Fox School's award-winning Global Entrepreneurship in Technology (GET) consulting practicum, where student teams work as consultants with global companies in high-growth industries. ENPC has a similar program, Technology Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship (TIME), which will strengthen the already rich exposure of International MBA students to entrepreneurship and technology throughout the IMBA curriculum.

"Our IMBA Program attracts students who want a global, entrepreneurial experience," said Will McDonald, director of the International MBA program at Fox. "What they acquire through the tri-continent sequence is global business acumen that responds to the increasing demand for leadership worldwide."

For more information, about The Fox IMBA program, visit http://www.fox.temple.edu/imba

About ENPC

ENPC is the oldest civil engineering school in the world and stands for the Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussees, (literally, the "National School of Roads and Bridges"), and was founded in 1747. It has grown from primarily a French engineering school to an international graduate school of excellence with partner institutions throughout the world. Since 1987, when its School of International Management began, ENPC has quickly become a world-renowned leader in the education and training of management talent for the global marketplace. In Fall 2004, the Financial Times' European business schools' ranking listed ENPC among the Top 5 in Europe for the quality of its teaching faculty and among the best schools in the world for the "International Mobility of Graduates." Accredited since 1996 by AMBA (the Association of MBA programs), the ENPC MBA is consistently considered among the top MBA programs in France. For more information about the ENPC School of International Management, visit www.enpcmbaparis.com

About Temple University and The Fox School

Temple University, founded in 1884, is a comprehensive public research university with more than 34,000 students and over 200,000 alumni around the world, and home to The Fox School of Business. Temple has five regional campuses and international campuses in Tokyo (Japan) and Rome (Italy). Temple also offers educational programs in the People's Republic of China, Israel, Greece, Great Britain, France and other countries throughout the world. The Fox School of Business, at Temple University, is the largest, most comprehensive business school in the Greater Philadelphia region and among the largest in the world, with more than 5,500 students, 150 full-time faculty and 45,000 alumni. Recently, The Fox School's MBA program was ranked by Financial Times as one of the top 50 MBA programs in the nation and top 75 MBA programs in the world. Also, Financial Times ranked The Fox MBA No. 1 for "Value for Money" in the U.S. and among the top three programs for "Career Progress," "International Mobility of Alumni" and "International Exposure" in the U.S. Accredited by AACSB International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), The Fox School's programs are also ranked internationally and nationally by other leading business publications, including Forbes, U.S. News & World Report and Entrepreneur magazine. For more information, visit http://www.fox.temple.edu

An online version of this release is available through the Office of Communications at: http://www.temple.edu/news_media/lm05004_126.html.