SKEMA Business School launches its first three-year Bachelor’s degree

With its new highly career-oriented Bachelor’s programme, “AI & Management”, the school aims to support young people seeking rapid entry into the job market.

SKEMA Business School is taking a major step in its development by launching, for the first time in its history, a three-year Bachelor’s degree (bac+3). Accessible via Parcoursup since 19 January 2026, the official opening date of the national platform, the Bachelor “AI & Management” marks SKEMA’s entry into the post-baccalaureate three-year degree market in Paris, Sophia Antipolis and Dubai, with a programme firmly focused on employability and the transformation of professions.

Starting in September 2026, this programme, awarding a Bachelor’s degree (Licence level) and accredited by the French State for the maximum period of five years (ministerial decree to be published in February), aims to train hybrid profiles capable of mastering the fundamentals of artificial intelligence and applying them concretely to business and sector-specific challenges.

A structuring post-baccalaureate Bachelor’s for SKEMA

With this new programme, SKEMA Business School is expanding its academic portfolio and responding to growing demand from students and families for a recognised, career-oriented and secure post-baccalaureate pathway, primarily leading to rapid integration into the job market.
From its first intake, the Bachelor AI & Management will welcome 80 students across the four planned specialisation tracks.

A strong academic foundation, focused on careers

The programme is built on a structured balance between data and AI technologies (60% of the curriculum) and management and business sciences (40%). The first year lays the foundations: statistics, introduction to Python, data analysis, machine learning, marketing, management, design culture and soft skills. From the second year onwards, the programme becomes more strongly career-oriented, with the introduction of work-study placements (apprenticeships) in France and alternating internships on the Dubai campus.

Four specialisation tracks

• AI & Human Resources: Paris
• AI & Digital Design: Paris
• AI & Luxury: Sophia Antipolis
• AI & Business Development: Dubai (100% taught in English)

A programme designed for action and employability

Accessible with no compulsory IT prerequisites, the Bachelor AI & Management is the first programme launched under SKEMA’s School of Professional Studies and fully embodies the mission of this new school: to train professionals who are immediately operational and closely aligned with companies’ needs.

“With the Bachelor AI & Management, SKEMA has chosen to enter the three-year bachelor’s market with a demanding, recognised and career-oriented programme whose raison d’être is to lead young people into employment,” explains Christophe Germain, Director of the Bachelor AI & Management and Vice-Dean in charge of thematic schools at SKEMA Business School.

“This Bachelor illustrates our commitment to offering programmes that are clear, recognised and directly connected to the needs of society and businesses,” adds Alice Guilhon, Dean and Executive President of SKEMA Business School.

Practical information – Bachelor AI & Management:

• Start date: September 2026
• Intake: 80 students, i.e. 20 students in each of the four specialisation tracks
• Locations: Paris, Sophia Antipolis and Dubai
• Tuition fees in France: €9,000 for the first year; the following two years funded through apprenticeships
• Tuition fees in Dubai: €15,000 per year