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Objectives

The objectives of the Master in Management are to develop students’ personal skills that will allow them to be operational managers with a strategic perspective. They will be capable to act in an international and multicultural environment contributing to change management processes.

Majors

8 majors are proposed:

  • Audit / Control
  • Finance
  • General Management
  • Operations Management
  • Human Resources Management
  • Information Systems Management
  • Marketing
  • International Negotiation and Sales Management

For each major, the student has to complete courses in the track concerned and choose the electives required among a list of more than 200 courses.

Structure

The Master in Management is a four-semester program with two of them dedicated to learning management in classroom at IESEG School of Management. A one-semester internship in France or abroad is also required as well as the writing of a Master’s thesis or consulting project.

Semester 1: Courses

  • Globalization: risks and strategic thinking and skills
  • Consulting skills and research methodology
  • Change management
  • Foreign languages
  • + 7 electives

Semester 2: Courses

  • Strategic seminar in a Major
  • Research seminar in a Major
  • Business cycles and corporate management
  • Foreign languages
  • + 6 electives

Semester 3 or 4: Staff Internship

The internship places students in managerial environments that provide them with opportunities to develop their ability to:

  • Analyze a situation or a problem
  • Suggest operational solutions
  • Take on responsibilities

The internship also exposes students to questions concerning relations and behaviors within companies and organizations.

Semester 3 or 4: Dissertation or Consulting Project

Students identify a problem and define it as a topic for research. They carry out personal research on this subject; it is a piece of applied research and most often in response to an issue raised by a company or an organization.
This semester is also dedicated to professional and personal development. Ethical and corporate social responsibility issues courses will complete this semester.