EM Lyon spreads wings
The French business school will inaugurate two overseas campuses this month. The first is in Geneva, the second in Shanghai.
Both degree and executive non-degree programmes will be taught on the two new campuses. In Geneva, the school will launch a masters programme in private banking.
At present, two-thirds of EM Lyon’s income comes from degree programmes, but the school hopes to develop executive short courses so that 50 per cent of its income comes from these programmes within five years. EM Lyon specialises in customised corporate programmes.
Cems goes global
The alliance of 17 European business schools and 55 corporations is signing up academic institutions from outside Europe for its masters in management degree. Although Cems has run exchange programmes with schools outside Europe in the past, from this month, non-European business schools will be able to offer a Cems MIM degree.
The impetus for the change, says Cems chairman Bernard Ramanantsoa, who is also dean of HEC Paris, comes from Cems’s corporate partners. “The market, and especially the companies, are asking us to be more global ... They want people who have experience in Asia and North America.”
Interdisciplinary options at Audencia
The French business school based in Nantes is opening up its masters in management degree, ranked eighth in the FT 2007 rankings, to students from other disciplines – initially those at engineering schools, but eventually to students from arts or design backgrounds, such as architects.
Instead of the final year of their engineering degree, selected students will be able to study management at Audencia for 18 months and finish their studies with two degrees, one in engineering and one in management. The 18 months will include a company internship.
Jean Charroin, director of the Audencia master in management says the management element is intended for those engineers who want to run engineering operations or work in general management or marketing. The three engineering schools already enlisted are Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécoms de Brest, and IFP – the French Petroleum Institute.
