Photographed Professor Aarti Ramaswami, Essec’s dean of pre-experience programmes for Financial Times publication Business Education: Masters in Management.

Programme providers are balancing student demand for an international education with overseas internships and study against the need to shrink their footprints. Essec has committed to reducing the carbon impact of student travel on programmes including its masters in management (MiM) by 30 per cent in three years.

“Part of the student experience and journey is having an international experience, and yet student travel and mobility is one of the higher sources of carbon footprint within the school,” says Ramaswami. “We’re making very conscious efforts to reduce that.”