Study @ IESEG in exchange
Established in Lille in 1964, member of the French «Conférence des Grandes Écoles», of AACSB and EFMD, IESEG is now one of the top 10 business schools in France. The school's mission is to train and prepare future executives and leaders in the corporate world both nationally and internationally, create actors of change in a professional environment that is constantly changing and improving.
With 169 partner universities located in 47 countries, IESEG strives to create a truly international learning environment for its students, faculty and staff. IESEG has a total of 2 700 students on both the Lille and Paris campuses, including 762 international students, 450 of whom come through exchange agreements.
In order to study at IESEG as an exchange student, there must be a student exchange agreement between your home university and IESEG, and you must be formally nominated to study at IESEG by your home university.
Paris Campus opened for exchange program in August 2011.
IESEG has two campuses: Lille and Paris. According to the agreement signed with your home university, places are offered on one or both campuses. We advise you to contact the International Relations Office of your university to validate your project and collect more information on international exchange procedures at home, before applying to IESEG.
We look forward to welcoming you to France and to IESEG School of Management.
Fall 2012 and Academic Year 2012-2013 information is now available.
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Exchange Programme Information
This document details the application requirements to participate in our exchange programme: contacts, nomination, required documents, short academic calendar, academic information, housing, visa, health insurance, cost of living, etc.
ONLINE APPLICATION
You are required to read the "Exchange Programme Information" and then apply online on https://application.ieseg.fr/ , choose "Echanges Internationaux" option and follow the indicated procedure.
Please note that students who do not apply ONLINE will not be enrolled in our programme.
Fall 2012 and Academic Year 2012-2013:
online application is open and will close May 31st, 2012.
The application process is the same for Lille campus and Paris campus
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IESEG Passport
This guide has been created to answer most of your questions before your departure. Please read it carefully! You will find details on our school, IR department, application and immigration procedures, health insurance, first days in France, life in Lille and Paris, etc.
Academic calendar 2012-2013
You are requested to stay until the end of the scheduled exams. No special early exams can be arranged for you.
2012/2013 Important dates:
| Application Deadlines | Semester 1 (Fall) : 31st May 2012 |
Semester 2 (Spring) : 31st October 2012 |
Arrival Dates |
last week of August. |
1st week of January |
Mandatory Orientation Seminar |
Semester 1 : 21st-25th August 2012 |
Semester 2 : 8th-12th January 2013 |
Beginning and end of Semesters (including examination dates) |
Semester 1 |
Semester 2 |
List of courses available for exchange students
IESEG School of Management offers more than 200 courses taught in English. At Bachelor level (3 year Bachelor of Business Administration program), courses are taught in both French and English; while at Master level (Master of Science in Management), courses are taught entirely in English. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the information available at the time this catalogue is prepared, the institution reserves the right to makes change at any time without prior notice.
In the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS), the normal workload for a full-time student is 30 credits per semester. The number of contact hours varies from the format and the level of the course. Therefore students usually have to attend from 8 to 15 courses per semester to get 30 ECTS. We recommend exchange students to take a minimum of 20 credits per semester.
All exchange students have access to our Bachelor courses. Bachelor students having completed at least 2 years and Master students have access to Master level electives, namely, Extensive (one-semester long), Intensive (one-week long).
Language requirements
Nominated students should have a good level of written and oral English to to ensure that they can follow modules and complete written / oral assignments and examinations competently. No official language test is required (French or English).
Course list
You can download a "List of courses available for exchange students" by clicking on the title of this section.
Course outlines
With this list, check "International > Course Catalogue" on our website http://international.ieseg.fr/international/course-catalogue/ and read the explanation of the ECTS course code for a better course research. Then click on "course catalogue" on top of the webpage.
You will be directed on Université Catholique de Lille general course catalogue for course descriptions (online catalogue).
For each of your researches, do not modify the following options: Keywords: nothing ; School or Faculty: IESEG ; Domain: All ; Academic year: 2012-2013.
Language of instruction: Choose courses according to the language in which they are taught: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish or All. Most courses taught in other languages than French and English are language courses.
Term: Choose S1 for Fall semester (August – December) and S2 for Spring semester (January – May)
Bachelor courses: Enter the following options: Level: the 2nd "bachelor" option ; Year of study: 1 for 1st year, 2 for 2nd year, 3 for 3rd year of our bachelor programme (our BBA is in 3 years).
Master courses: Enter the following options: Level: Master; Year of study: All.
Language courses: Enter the following options: Language of instruction: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish or All ; Level: TRANSVERSAL.
Then click on "detailed sheet" near course titles to open a course description which will detail the following: Level, Semester, Language of Instruction, Amount of ECTS Credits, Prerequisites, Learning Outcomes, Course Description, Class Type, and Assessment.
French as a Foreign Language Courses are offered each semester at no extra cost for exchange students. Students do a French test during the orientation seminar and are then divided in groups according to their level.
Learning agreement
Download this document, complete it with your course selection, have it validated and signed by your home university and add it to your application.
Course registration is done during the mandatory orientation seminar. Students will be able to see if there is any course overlap only during that week with timetables available on our Intranet. Our academic advisors help them with their course schedule.
Students still have 3 weeks after the orientation week to add and drop courses.
Orientation seminar
This orientation week is MANDATORY.
Semester 1 (Fall 2012) |
Semester 2 (Spring 2013) |
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Arrival Dates |
last week of August. |
1st week of January |
Mandatory Orientation Seminar |
Semester 1: 21st-25th August 2012 |
Semester 2: 8th-12th January 2013 |
Pick-up service will be available only on the Monday preceding the orientation seminar.
Please send your arrival date / hour / train station / airport to the International Club from end of July for an arrival in August, and from beginning of December for an arrival in January.
Lille: Arrival details in Lille (Lille-Flandres or Lille-Europe train stations) to be sent to clubinternationallille@ieseg.fr
Paris: Arrival details in Paris (CDG or Orly airports) to be sent to clubinternationalparis@ieseg.fr
In case you are late for the orientation seminar, due to academic reasons at home university, you are required to advise our International Services Coordinators with your arrival date.
Lille: Hélène GUINARD (h.guinard@ieseg.fr)
Paris:Hanane ELKOUARI (h.elkouari@ieseg.fr)
Housing information
IESEG provides different housing options: student and private residence, as well as private housing (private landlords). Students can choose out of those options, and apply right after being contacted by IR with housing offers (by email). It is on a first-come, first-served basis. It will be more difficult to find housing on, so we greatly advise you to book housing as soon as we contact you.
Leasing contracts are for a one semester period minimum (Fall: August 1st till December 31st; Spring: January 2nd till June 30th). Students are required to subscribe an insurance to cover personal and civil liability (can be done once in France).
Check details for each campus on "International > Practical Information" online and choose between "Housing in Lille" and "Housing in Paris".
Our Incoming Students Coordinators will support you in this process, so do not hesitate to contact us for any question about housing or for help, the sooner the better.
Lille: housinglille@ieseg.fr
Paris: housingparis@ieseg.fr
Visa information
Non-European students must ask for a student long stay visa for studies (D visa), also called VLSTS (visa de long séjour valant titre de séjour) to the French Consulate of their home country. Make sure you get this visa, otherwise you may get a visa which obliges you to stay in France (only) for your whole exchange study period and preventing your from receiving the financial support for accommodation from the French Government.
We will help non-European students with residence title application once in France (residence permit / OFII stamp).
Exception: Students coming for less than 90 days (due to academic trimester system in their home university) can ask for a Schengen visa.
Health Insurance
French Health insurance and complementary insurance for international students.
European students must ask for the European Health Insurance Card in their country. Quebec citizens must ask for the SE401 Q106. If European and Quebec citizens do not have these documents, they will have to subscribe to the French health insurance scheme.
Non-European students staying more than 3 months are obliged to subscribe to the French health insurance before arrival (around EUR 210). Our staff will provide students with complementary information and wire payment details. Please bring a birth certificate (translated in French) for the registration to the French health insurance.
We also encourage all students to have an international insurance, covering them for travels, lost luggage, repatriation and civil liability.
