Auction managers, project managers, art gallery owners or directors, exhibition curators, show producers, artist agents, coordinators, press agents, directors of tourist and cultural sites, luxury-brand developers, cultural entrepreneurs, luxury-store managers, with its 30 years of experience and its state-recognised diplomas and certificates, the EAC is one of the major Business Schools to become a professional in the Art Market, Culture and the Luxury industry. Students from around the world study at Bachelor, Master and Executive Doctorate level in our France-based campuses located in the heart of Paris and Lyon, while our MBA programme for professionals is also available in our campus in Shanghai. Classes are taught in French, in English or in French and English according to the programme.

The EAC is also two schools of applied arts. The French National Institute of Gemmology, a school specialized in the study and classification of gems and precious stones, which offers a Bachelor programme in “expert gemmologist” dedicated to students, a programme awarding “gemmologist title” to professionals, and specialized training in diamonds and pearls expertise…, and the school of cultural heritage preservation, specialised in the restauration of archaeological objects, ancient paintings, books,…whose Bachelor and Master programmes prepare students to apply the whole range of preservation and restauration techniques.

The EAC is alive through a continuously expanding and diversified network of partnerships with companies, cultural institutions, auction houses, art galleries, French luxury brands and with other higher education institutions in Europe (Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Hungary, Spain) and beyond (Brazil, Japan, Korea, Morocco…) thus, students can discover the professional world throughout their study cycle, and thanks to the Erasmus + charter and bilateral agreements, benefit from study mobility.