Integration Weekend (MBA)

Integration Weekend for MBA students is a 2 day event during which MBA students travel to the Serge Kampf Les Fontaines campus to better integrate as a class through 'get-to-know-each-other' activities, meals and parties.

Travel
Students travel to the chateau via bus, provided by HEC. On average, students in the September batch require 3 coach buses to travel to the chateau, while January batches require 2 buses.

Travel time is approximately 1.5 hours from HEC Paris.

On the return trip, buses stop at the Chateau de Chantilly to visit.

Lodging
Students are individually housed in a hotel room on campus. Each hotel room has a queen sized bed, shower, toiler and sink and is similar in luxury to a US Marriott/Hilton hotel room, or French Novotel.

Campus
All meals are served inside the chateau, along with the the dance party and alcohol bar.

A large lake is located behind the chateau, along with extensive paths throughout the campus forests that lead to various gates of the grounds.

Bicycles are freely available at the welcome center for students to take and explore the grounds with.

Timeline
Generally, the schedule for integration weekend is as follows:

Travel

Wait around

Eat

Conduct activities

Eat

Conduct more activities

Photo

Eat

Party

Sleep (maybe)

Wait

Eat

Travel to Chantilly

Visit

Travel to HEC

Costs
Students must pay a fee to the MBA Council to be permitted to attend. The price is XXX and includes all costs, including transportation, lodging, meals, 3 drinks for the party, and entrance to the Chateau de Chantilly.