The Institut d'Administration des Entreprises de Poitiers, in Poitiers, is the Business School of the University of Poitiers. From its origins it has been part of the "Réseau des IAE", first French network in management education, which includes 32 IAE all over France.HistoryThe Institut d'Administration des Entreprises de Poitiers was established in 1956. It is attached to the University of Poitiers, France's second oldest university after Paris' Sorbonne. The number of its students has constantly grown ever since its establishment, going from twenty or so in its early stages to over 2,200 registered students, including abroad sites. Currently, it offers more than 20 nationally and internationally recognized courses, either alone or in association with organizations like ESSEC or ESCE in Paris, ESC in La Rochelle, France, and many others abroad.InternationalThe IAE of Poitiers has built up an international network of about 50 foreign universities in almost 25 countries thus offering wide possibilities to study abroad through the ERASMUS university exchange programme. The IAE allows the students who wish to develop their professional projects abroad and particularly in Asia, to gain the management, linguistic and cultural knowledge necessary for the development of their career, in particular in China and Japan, where several IAE alumni have moved.Also, IAE became actively involved right from the early 1990s in Open and Distance Learning, firstly in partnership with the CNED then in association with foreign partners. In this context, it has built up ties with numerous countries such as: Benin, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Mauritius, Lebanon, Morocco, Senegal...