Admissions procedure
To be considered for admission, applicants for all courses are required to complete an application form, take a series of written tests and attend an interview:
Year 1 Bachelor GESAI (Real Estate Business Manager): French Baccalaureate or recognised international equivalent.
Year 2 Bachelor GESAI (Real Estate Business Manager): successful completion of the 1st year of a recognised higher education qualification in Real Estate, Law or Notarial Studies.
Year 3 Bachelor GESAI (Real Estate Business Manager, full-time or work release): successful completion of the 2nd year of a recognised higher education programme. Applicants who have successfully completed a 2-year higher education qualification in Real Estate or Notarial Studies, or with at least 6 month’s work experience in real estate management or sales are eligible for the work release programme.
Year 1 Professional Masters: recognised undergraduate degree qualification. Applicants with a real estate degree and at least 1 year of relevant experience in the real estate sector are eligible for the work release programme in semester 1. In all other cases, work release starts in January after a refresher course lasting 1 semester.
Year 2 admissions onto the Professional Masters is open to applicants with a recognised 4-year postgraduate qualification in real estate and at least 1 year of relevant business experience. For all Masters-level specialisations, students with a recognised 4-year postgraduate qualification only are eligible for the 6-month study / 6-month internship format (not on work release).
Admissions procedure
- Complete the online application form
- You receive a confirmation email stating whether you have been pre-selected following individual assessment of your application
- Select an admissions test date from those proposed to you
- You receive an email notification to attend the admissions test
On the given date, you take the tests and attend the on-campus interview.
- Presentation to applicants by the course managers (40 minutes)
- 4 multiple choice tests (general knowledge, documentary analysis, logical reasoning, English language proficiency) (1 hour 40 minutes)
- Individual interview with a panel of oral examiners (20 minutes)
Results are sent to applicants by email within 2 weeks.
The applicant then has 15 days to accept their offer. To confirm your place, you should pay a first instalment equivalent to 10% of your total tuition fees (except for work release students whose place is confirmed when the host company signs their contract), amounting to 760€ for undergraduate courses and 880€ for postgraduate courses. An information pack is sent out to students (timetable, enrolment certificate, …) several weeks before the start of the new academic year.
Admissions test details
| Written tests | Duration | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Documentary analysis multiple choice test
General knowledge multiple choice test Logical reasoning multiple choice test English language multiple choice test |
25 minutes
25 minutes 20 minutes 30 minutes |
25%
25% 25% 25% |
| Oral test | Duration | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Interview | 20 minutes | 2 |
At the end of the admissions test, the applicant will receive two grades out of 20, as follows:
- Written tests – weighting x 1
- Oral test – weighting x 2
Applicants with an average overall score of more than 12/20 are directly offered a place.
I’m currently overseas, what should I do?
If you’re overseas and unable to come to one of our campuses to take the admissions test, you can take it at a distance.
Once you have filled in the online application form and sent us the required supporting documents, we’ll contact you to arrange a date to take the written tests and attend an interview by videoconference. Results will be sent to you by email within 2 weeks.
I’ve decided to take a gap year, do I have to enrol?
For students who have decided to take a gap year before joining ESPI, we require you to pay a deposit equivalent to 10% of your total tuition fees in order to secure a place for the following academic year. Please note that for students who have graduated from ESPI or successfully completed one year of study with us more than 2 years ago, we’ll ask you to take the admissions tests again.