Turnover: 1 billion EUR (2023)

Country: France

  • European leader in private higher education in the fields of applied arts, design and communication, and management
  • 54 schools of excellence in 13 countries, 90 campuses and 170,000 students.
  • Prestigious schools: Paris School of Technology and Business, ESG Group (ESG Luxe, ESG RH, ESG Finance, etc.), Cours Florent, Penninghen, Web School Factory, Cours Florent, Studi.
  • Acquisition of a stake in EM Lyon

News

Galileo Education opens a campus in Dijon 16/12/2023

  • Private higher education group Galileo Global Education plans to open a new 1,800 square meter campus in Dijon, France
  • Three schools will be present: Ersac, Ecole Supérieure de Gestion (ESG) and Digital Campus.
  • 200 students will be enrolled from the start of the academic year, and the number of students is expected to reach 1,000 by 2027.
  • Galileo Global Education's investment in the new campus amounts to 3 million euros.
  • One hundred trainers will be hired, for an hourly volume of between 30 and 100 hours.
  • The cost of tuition for non-rotating students is 7,800 euros for one year.

Grandes Ecoles: Galileo takes a stake in EMLyon and goes back on the offensive 19/12/2022

  • Galileo Global Education: 200,000 students trained every year on 106 campuses in 15 countries
  • Galileo, Europe's leading private education group
  • EMLyon aims to accelerate its international expansion and plans to buy other schools
  • Galileo joins supervisory board with €50 million capital increase

Galileo Global Education invests 1.5 billion euros to expand its network of schools 21/02/2022

  • with a network of 55 schools on 85 campuses in some 20 countries, the Paris-based group has recently become the world leader in private education, ahead of the American Laureate Education.
  • It has also taken over a school of applied arts in England, a design school in Madrid and IPETH, a training school for physiotherapists and nurses in Mexico.
  • The originality of Galileo's offer is to cross-train within its network of 55 schools, so that a student from the Institut Culinaire de France in Bordeaux (recally acquired by Galileo) is also trained in stage direction by a teacher from the Cours Florent (to work on room service), in design by a teacher from Strate and in digital by Hétic.
  • 5.000 employees
  • Creation of four Eva Santé schools for care assistants, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Hauts-de-France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Centre-Val de Loire,
  • Creation of a medical school in Germany, in Frankfurt in 2022
  • Galileo is backed by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), Téthys Invest, the Bettencourt Meyers family investment fund, the British fund Montagu Private Equity and Bpifrance
  • Galileo is valued at 5 billion euros, and its sales, kept secret, are expected to exceed one billion euros, half of which will be generated outside France.
  • Within five years, the aim is to reach one million students, compared with 200,000 today.

Studies mentioning this company

The private school market - France

Other companies mentioned:

  • La maison des enfants
  • International School of Nantes
  • Diagonale
  • Ma Kindy
  • Institution Saint-Dominique (Association)
  • Galileo Global Éducation System
  • Le Permis Libre
  • Ornikar
  • Ecole Saint Pie X
  • Hattemer
  • Hautefeuille
  • Les Pinsons
  • Mère Teresa
  • Open Sky International
  • Globeducate
  • Cours Legendre (Alma learning group)
  • Alma Learning Group
The business school market - France

Other companies mentioned:

  • HEC Paris
  • ESSEC
  • ESCP Europe
  • EM Lyon
  • EDHEC Business School
  • Grenoble Ecole de Management
  • Audencia
  • SKEMA Business School
  • Kedge Business School
  • NEOMA Business School
  • Rennes School of Business
  • Montpellier Business School
  • Iéseg
  • ESSCA
  • Galileo Global Éducation System
  • EM Normandie
  • ESDES
  • ESCE (Omnes education)
  • ESC Pau
  • EM Strasbourg
  • Omnes Education- Inseec
  • Ionis education
  • TBS Education - Toulouse Business School
  • Eduservices Groupe
  • Excelia group
  • Oxytalis
  • ESC Clermont (Ecole de Commerce ce Clermont)