Location:

Cergy-Pontoise, France

Program Type:

Full Degree

Degree Level:

Master

Specialty:

Organizational Leadership

Program Overview

Program Description:

“Our goal is to prepare you to become a responsible manager able to anticipate and work with the changes and challenges of the corporate world. To meet this goal, we aim to help you become the entrepreneur of both your professional and personal future.The flexibility of the program and the combination of education and corporate experience will allow you to acquire an exceptional level of operational performance even before you graduate. Internship opportunities give you the chance to experiment with and fine-tune your choices in a sector or area of operations. Alternatively, you may decide to create your own business in the ESSEC Business Incubator.With its two campuses, in Cergy and Singapore, 80 academic exchange programs on five continents, partnerships with institutions such as the École du Louvre and the École Centrale de Paris that open doors to complementary disciplines, a teaching staff composed of 42% international professors, ESSEC develops your aptitude to understand different approaches.Learning to learn, ask the right questions, make decisions, work in teams in multicultural environments and become socially responsible managers: these are our goals for our graduates.” Françoise Rey, Dean of Graduate Programs --- Strengths * An excellent education in a program recognized as one of the best in Europe: o The top program in France according to HR directors and recruiting professionals at major corporations surveyed in the latest opinion poll published by Nouvel Economiste o The No. 2 elite French school of higher education in management according to the surveys in L’Etudiant, l’Express, Challenges, Le Figaro, Le Point and l’Expansion. o An internationally renowned teaching staff made up of professors from 35 countries who are graduates of the finest academic institutions in the world. * A personalized education: each student designs his or her own program with the help of the Corporate/Student Relations Department and a tutor. * Corporate experience: work/study programs, the involvement of professionals, chairs, internships, business incubators etc. * A European education with a global perspective, via the international student body and teaching staff, the two campuses in Cergy and Singapore, academic exchanges and dual degrees, course content and long periods spent abroad.

Additional Program Information

Accreditation:

EQUIS and AACSB

Requirements:

Candidate Profile Are eligible to apply: - Candidates with an international four-year university degree, of which at least three years were spent in a country other than France; - Candidates with a three-year bachelor degree obtained with outstanding academic results (the entire curriculum must have been spent outside of France). Three to six months work experience is preferred. Candidates must also: * Have an international profile * Be fluent in English or French * Be 32 years of age or under * Have taken one of the following tests: GMAT or TAGE MAGE * Have taken (if necessary) the TOEFL, IELTS or TOEIC