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Programmes taught in English at the Lille, Raleigh, Sophia and Suzhou campuses
This MSc is a full-time course taught over a twelve-month period. There are eight months of taught courses, followed by four to six months for the dissertation and internship.
MSc International Business has three specialisation tracks: Doing Business in Europe, Doing Business in Asia, Doing Business in America
Career opportunities
With the SKEMA MSc in International Business, you will take a decisive step in your international career.
Graduates are easily employable in a broad range of firms and organisations from exporting SMEs and multinational companies, b2b and b2c, to international government agencies and NGOs. The hiring companies are from diverse sectors: consulting, manufacturing, banking and insurance, and logistics. An MSc IB graduate may work as an international product manager, business operations manager, international business development manager, export-area sales manager, international sourcing manager, international purchaser, strategic consultant, international project manager etc.
Programme outline
Our one-year multi-campus programme is designed for future global business leaders, providing students with the necessary general management and multicultural skills and knowledge. Each semester, students can study at a different SKEMA campus in Asia, Europe or America; this means students gain real exposure and experience in different markets.
The same disciplines are taught in each campus, with strong localisation relevant to the location. The autumn/fall semester focuses on globalisation and the way that the region —the Americas, Asia, or Europe— deals with globalisation. In the spring semester, course content on each campus is totally specific to the region.
Our professors come from all around the globe. They are entrepreneurs, innovators, research directors, CEOs, VPs of marketing, directors of finance; and they have worldwide reputations in their fields.
Classes are small enough to allow for close personal contact with teachers and classmates. In recent years, MSc IB classes have been made up of students of some 25, or so, countries. This highly international class composition transforms projects and team work into valuable cross-cultural working and learning experiences.
The teaching approach is applied and participatory: real projects with businesses are carried out so students are operational, employable managers by the end of the year.
Students on this MSc will understand the challenges and issues associated with sharing knowledge and innovation across borders and continents. The programme strikes the balance between practical business applications and cutting-edge research and ideas.
Core courses provide the knowledge to survive in the global knowledge economy:
→ how industries change and firms compete
→ how markets should be managed and financial decisions made
→ how to cope with diversity and legal issues.
All courses and tutorials are taught entirely in English, allowing students to have a perfect command of the business and technical terminology that is expected from international commerce and trade managers in multinational companies.
Why choose this programme
Nowadays firms are often forced to go abroad to sell their products and services. Also key inputs like raw materials, components, human resources have to be obtained internationally. Business is in a phase of unprecedented internationalisation. This MSc will prepare you for it.
The programme is well suited to students with a broad range of backgrounds, nationalities, qualifications and experience. The international student make up on the programme precisely suits the area of study, and team-work in these multi-cultural groups is an application of international business in itself.
The international teaching staff has both strong academic and professional experience and their teaching concentrates on the application of theory to practical business situations.
Partner companies
IBM ,Orange, Amadeus, Groupe Accord, Decathlon, Auchan, Arjo Wiggins
European Union, Ubifrance, Chambers of Commerce, EURADA Brussels (ARD lobbying group at the EU), The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation in Vienna
MSc International Business Director, Jean-Claude Tagger
Jean-Claude Tagger is professor of Marketing and programme director for the International Business MSc. He has 30 years' experience in managing high tech and international companies around Europe (Philips, Rank Xerox, ZDS, and Cabletron Systems). His last two assignments within multinational companies were as managing director for Dell Computers France and as president & CEO of NEC Computers, EMEA and LA. He left NEC in 2008 to create ‘Global Business Partners’, a company specialised in helping technology SMEs to develop into new markets.
Jean-Claude holds a degree in engineering from “Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées” (1978) and a master degree from the University of California Berkeley (1979).