Master in Management (MIM) - Applying with an International Degree

At the ESSEC France Campus:

The year starts with refresher courses geared at bringing your current knowledge to required levels. This way, you will be able to truly participate in the more challenging courses that will follow. After that, from trimester 2 onwards, you will personalize your curriculum: next to following core courses you choose from the many electives (more than 200!) that you find interesting.

Don't want to stay in France?

In that case, you can also choose to do courses or pursue a double degree at one of our 105 partner universities. You decide when to do what, so this could also be the period in which you don't have class, but instead do an internship, apprenticeship, volunteer or accrue other professional experience.

At ESSEC Singapore Campus:

Exclusively in Singapore, refresher courses are integrated with hands-on business consultancy experience with respectable firms operating in Asia (Club Med, Sodexo, etc.). From the challenges of social business to entrepreneurial initiative, you will be able to put your knowledge into practice. Watch the video to discover Junior Consulting Experience:

Choose a Track in Trimester 2 & 3 after your refresher courses from the following:

- Corporate Finance - Allows you to specialize during your foundation year in a dedicated track where you study major financial concepts, measure time value of money, structuring linear derivatives, etc.

- Business Management in Asia - provides you a solid foundation for a steep and successful career in Asia: home to a few of the fastest growing and most promising economies in the world.

- Innovation Entrepreneurship & Sustainability - lets you become a part of the Silicon Valley of Asia and bring business ideas to life: ESSEC's partnership with the Action Community of Entrepreneurship (ACE) Singapore and it's close proximity to LaunchPad@JTC provide a condusive environment for budding entrepreneurs.  

As said, starting in Singapore provides the benefit of guaranteed access to these tracks.

Another innovative pedagogical component of Grande Ecole program is the Asian Strategy Consulting Project (ASCP) in partnership with Capgemini Invent in Year 2. Created seven years ago, this project was implemented with the view to provide digital transformation strategy, revamping business models to address challenges faced by companies in the Asian region. Check out the video below:

Get the foundation you need

You validate 9 mandatory core courses which can be taken on either ESSEC campus, as well as a SPOC on Management & Society.

I chose the Master in Management program because it offers an incredible range of opportunities and experiences that enrich both my professional and personal profile by the day of my graduation. We enjoy an incomparable flexibility on how to structure their own path, relying on first class-choices for anything we aim to.

Filippo Pastore   Master in Management student

Build your academic curriculum

200+ elective courses offered in English & in French

With the remainder 70% of course requirements, you are free to choose to continue your studies in France or Asia-Pacific campus in Singapore, or study in an international exchange.

Choose a generalized path or specialise in one particular job or field via the specializations offered. At this point, It is entirely up to you to decide what you study, depending on where your interests lie and what best fits your future career plans. Please note that some specializations on the Cergy campus are taught entirely or partially in French and so a grasp of the French language for international students is necessary. All tracks at the Singapore campus are taught entirely in English. Some tracks are offered on both campuses; others on one campus only.

For a comprehensive list of all on offer, refer to our course catalogue. 

You also have to study a foreign language during your time at the school. If you are a non-native French speaker, you will study French. You are also free to study additional languages: German, Arabic, Mandarin, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian.

To really be competitive on the job market as a young graduate, you will already be up-and-running and ready-to-go having had a minimum 12 months of work experience. 

ESSEC provides career support and guidance to students and alumni alike. If you have relevant work experience prior to joining the program, you have the option to use this as credit.

Whatever your career aspirations regarding the field you want to work in, the type of job you take on, the length of your contracts, or even the location, you will have the flexibility to choose from or mix and match several options:

• Apprenticeship - In 1993, ESSEC Business School was the first business school in France to offer apprenticeship programs to its students as an opportunity for them to gain valuable professional experience. Apprenticeship contracts at ESSEC Business School are accepted on the condition that the content of the assignment and the financial stipulations with the company have been validated by ESSEC Business School prior to the start date of the contract. 
  An apprenticeship is a special way for students to acquire professional experience within the program, where you alternate study at ESSEC and work at a company at the same time. Different 'rhythms' of alternating are possible. Some students do it on a weekly basis: they work for 3 days and study at ESSEC for 2 days per week. Others have a quarterly basis, where they work for 3 months, followed by 3 months of studying, etc. 
  Another advantage of apprenticeship is that you follow the course free of tuition fee for the whole duration of the program. Other tuition charges may apply (ESSEC Alumni, etc.). The company also pays you a salary each month. 
• Internships - the classic route where depending on the company and type of job role, you will spend 1 longer period of time in 1 company as an intern or a trainee manager or if you prefer you can look to spend several shorter stints in various companies.
• Work contracts - you may be lucky enough to go straight into paid employment on a fixed term (CDD) or even a permanent (CDI) contract or graduate scheme.
• Creating your own company - if you have the idea and an entrepreneurial flair, you have the possibility of joining one of two on-campus incubators, “Ventures” & “Antropia” who will accompany you on your startup adventure.
• VIE-VIA - this is an international volunteer program only available to EU citizens under the age of 28. The positions are more like real jobs and can be based in embassies and cultural centers or in overseas branches of large companies in a wide range of sectors.

In today's job market, you have to be able to work in and understand multicultural and multi-linguistic teams, which this minimum 6 months of international exposure, whether it be through your studies and/or work experience, will bring you.

These 6 months of international exposure should be outside of your country of origin (nationality/residence) and this can be done through work (see “professional”) or study.

• multi-campus - study at one or all of our ESSEC campuses in France, Singapore and Morocco to get a taste of management training in European, Asian and African contexts and build up professional networks on both continents (see “academic”)
• exchange programme - spend a semester or two at one of our 105 partner universities worldwide and not only have the time of your life and open yourself up personally but know what it is like to study in another prestigious institution with a different way of doing and seeing things.
• double degree programme - become fully immersed in another culture and country, acquire two sets of competencies and experience two ways of learning through one of 11 double degree programs.

Check out the double-degree programs below:

Australia: UQ Business School, University of Queensland; Canada: Queen's School of Business; China: Guanghua School of Management, Peking University; Germany: University of Mannheim; India: Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; Italy: Università commerciale Luigi Bocconi of Milan; Japan: Keio Business School; Mexico: EGADE Business School; Singapore: Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University; South Korea: Graduate School of Business, Seoul National University; Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University (GLIMPSE Double Degree*)

*With the support of the European Union in the context of Bilateral Cooperation with Industrialised Countries

If you have relevant international experience prior to joining the programme, you have the option to use this towards credit.

Master Degree

The ESSEC Grande Ecole/Master in Management program is authorised by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation to award a recognised BAC+5 degree, Master’s Grade, to its students. Authorisation was delivered following assessment by the national Management Programmes Assessment Commission (Commission d’Evaluation des Formations de Gestion - https://www.cefdg.fr) for a renewable period. This Commission undertakes assessment for all programs, with or without the Master’s Grade, delivered by business schools that are recognised by the French State to guarantee the quality of teaching delivered and the value of their degree. This is valid whether you start your program from France campus or from Singapore campus.

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