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Become inclusive and responsible leaders the world needs

The ESSEC Grande École program is one of the oldest and the most prestigious Master in Management (MIM) programs in the world. Its objective is to educate the next generation of responsible top leaders, who will positively contribute to the social and environmental transition the world has to face. The values of humanism and excellence that have permeated ESSEC since its creation in 1907 are more relevant than ever. Today, they are reflected in our Together initiative by a commitment to diversity, inclusiveness and sustainable development. 

You will be exposed to ESSEC’s unique pioneering spirit, which is at the core of our DNA. ESSEC’s world-class faculty will expose you to the latest theory on management and leadership on our campuses in Paris, Singapore, and Rabat (Morocco). 

During your studies, you will be able to design your own career path, become an entrepreneur of your own learning journey, tapping into any of the program’s 50 specialization tracks. You can volunteer and become involved in one of our hundred student associations and alumni clubs dedicated to making the world a better place.  

Throughout your journey, ESSEC's Metalab team is at your side to help you understand and leverage new technologies such as artificial intelligence and data analysis to bring your projects to fruition.

Accompanied by  our network of more than 100 academic partners worldwide, you will put your ideas into practice or create your own business through our Enlightening Entrepreneurship Centre with its various incubators, such as ESSEC Antropia, dedicated to social entrepreneurship.

Our students are restless innovators, exploring new frontiers around the globe through, and applying new concepts such as imagination techniques and design thinking for the betterment of society.   

Finally, you will be part of ESSEC’s powerful alumni network from your first day in the program. Our 65,000 alumni occupy leadership positions in nearly any sector, function, and country in the world. 

If you are ready to live up to the challenge and embrace ESSEC’s values of academic excellence, and responsible leadership, we are thrilled to welcome you into our Master in Management program! 

 

Emmanuelle LE NAGARD Academic Director of the Master in Management 

Emmanuelle LE NAGARD
Academic Director of the Master in Management (MIM) - Grande Ecole
Professor, Marketing Department
Doctorate in Management, HEC Paris
Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR), Université Paris Dauphine-PSL

What does the MIM program look like?

In the MIM, you personalize your ESSEC experience from the first year.

You have the choice between starting at the ESSEC France campus (in Cergy) or at the ESSEC Asia-Pacific campus (in Singapore).

Depending on your choice, the curriculum of the first year varies.

You will then continue your journey on the campus of your choice and around the world.

 

START IN SINGAPORE

START IN FRANCE



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Junior Consulting Experience

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Business Management
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Corporate Finance

Fintech
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Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Sustainability

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PERSONALIZE YOUR PROGRAM
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Academic & professional experience all over the world
Enjoy all ESSEC has to offer

Flexibility is at the heart of MIM program

- Build your own academic, professional, and international curriculum each trimester.

- Study in France, in Singapore, in Morocco and around the world.

Starting at the ESSEC France Campus

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.

Starting at the ESSEC Asia-Pacific Campus

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:

 

Unprecedented flexibility in building your academic curriculum

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.

  • Financial Accounting & Reporting
  • Management Control
  • Business Economics
  • Principles of Finance
  • People & Organizations
  • Marketing Management
  • Strategy & Management
  • Managing IT in Digital Age
  • Operations Management or Law (To choose from a selected list of courses)


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

  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. 

Click here to download the Course Catalogue

 

CATEGORIES SPECIALIZATIONS OFFERED
SUSTAINABILITY & IMPACT

¤ Global ESSEC Circular Economy Chair
¤ Chaire Entrepreneuriat et Innovation à impact | Taught in French
¤ Chaire ESSEC Talents de la transition écologique | Taught in French

FINANCE AND ECONOMICS

¤ Corporate Finance in Asia Track
¤ Economics Track | Taught in English and in French
¤ ESSEC-ISUP Risk & Actuarial Track (To qualify as an ‘Actuary’ of Institut des Actuaires)
¤ Finance Track (In partnership with the CFA) | Taught in English and in French
¤ Financial Markets in Asia Track
¤ Fintech in Asia Track
¤ Shaping the future of Finance Chair in partnership with AXA IM Alts

ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION

¤ Entrepreneurship Track Taught in English and in French
¤ Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Sustainability in Asia Track
¤ Filière Entreprendre en Afrique | Taught in French
¤ The ESSEC Ventures Incubator

DIGITAL BUSINESS

¤ Accenture Strategic Business Analytics Chair
¤ Digital Disruption Chair by BNP Paribas
¤ Information Strategy and Governance Chair
¤ Chaire de Grande Consommation | Taught in French
¤ Chaire Media & Digital | Taught in French

HEALTH, FOOD AND SPORT

¤ ESSEC Sports Chair
¤ Food Business Challenges Chair
¤ Innovation and Health Chair, Innovation in Health Option
¤ Chaire Innovation et Santé, Option systèmes de santé | Taught in French

IT, DATA & OPERATIONS

¤ Business Analytics Methods Track
¤ Information Systems Track
¤ Operations Management Track | Taught in English and in French
¤ Operations Management in Asia Track

MARKETING

¤ Leading a Beauty Brand Chair
¤ The LVMH Chair: Future of Luxury

MANAGEMENT & CONSULTING

¤ Asian Strategy Consulting Project (Track)
¤ Business Management in Asia Track
¤ Global Manager in Africa Track
¤ Global Manager in Asia Track
¤ Filière Conseil en Stratégie | Taught in French

PUBLIC & PRIVATE POLICY

¤ Real Estate - The RICS Track
¤ Real Estate & Sustainable Development Chair | Taught in English and in French
¤ Chaire d'Economie Urbaine | Taught in French
¤ Filière Affaires publiques – préparation aux concours de la fonction publique | Taught in French
¤ Filière Cursus Droit | Taught in French
¤ Filière Géopolitique, défense et leadership | Taught in French
¤ Filière Géopolitique et négociation | Taught in French
¤ Filière Immobilier-RICS | Taught in French

FINANCIAL REPORTING, AUDIT & STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT CONTROL

¤ Chartered Institute of Management Control CIMA Track
¤ Consulting, Finance & Organization – CFO Track | Taught in English and in French
¤ Cursus DSCG (Diplôme Supérieur de Comptabilité et de Gestion) | Taught in French

 MANAGEMENT & SOCIETY

¤ Global Circular Economy Chair
¤ Leadership & Diversity Chair
¤ Management & Philosophy Track
¤ Management & Society Track
¤ Chaire ICP-ESSEC Entreprises et bien commun | Taught in French
¤ Filière Philosophie et Stratégie pour l’innovation responsable | Taught in French

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.

 

Flexibility in building your professional experiences

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.
Flexibility in building your international experiences

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.

Recognition

Accreditation by Recognition

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.


'Welcome to France' - 'Bienvenue en France'

 

ESSEC Business School has been recognized by Campus France and the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation for the quality of its international students’ welcome. The school received the highest level that can be obtained from the "Bienvenue en France" certification, which is the third level. This certification recognizes the quality of ESSEC's reception in all the criteria provided:
  • The quality and accessibility of information
  • The welcoming of new international students
  • The academic offer
  • Accommodations
  • Campus life
  • The quality of post-graduate follow-up
Triple Crown Accreditation

The academic excellence of ESSEC’s programs is recognized through its international standards in management training, and it holds the prestigious ”Triple Crown“ of accreditations: EQUIS, AACSB, and AMBA. 

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