Program Structure
The MIB program is comprised of 60 ECTS credits to be completed in ONE academic year. It consists of 716 contact hours (590 credit-course hours and 126 non-credit course hours) and a minimum of 320 hours of internship or work experience, for a total of 1500 hours of effort from the student. The MIB is accredited with the Catholic University of Lille.
How the MIB Programme is organized:
- 8 core courses
- 40-48 hours each
- To be completed during the 1st semester from September to December
- Foreign language
- French, German, Italian, Chinese, Spanish
- French is mandatory for all non-French speaking students, as it is essential to have a certain proficiency French if a student wants to do an internship in France
- International case study
- 1 full week study
- Offered during the 2nd semester from January – May
- 1 Business Game
- Counts as 1 of the 14 electives
- Mandatory for all MIB students
- Offered during the 2nd semester from January – May
- 13 electives
- During the 1st semester (September-December), students can select up to 4 open electives along with the core courses
- For the 2nd semester (January-May), students can choose 9 open electives in addition to the Business Game
- 1 Internship
- Also known as the Executive Internship
- Minimum 2 months, can be started as early as in June
The students in the advanced MIB Programme in Paris will need to do a “company project” during the second semester of the programme. It is a 3 month group work that replaces 3 electives. There are several projects given by several companies (one per company) and the students are asked to choose one. It starts at the beginning of February and ends at the end of April. The students are assigned a supervisor who gives them leads on how to go about the subject given by a company. The supervisor is, of course, not there to do the work for the students, nor to solve group-internal problems. This last point is actually part of the aims of the project: it is the students’ responsibility to be able to work together and overcome the difficulties of working together in order to produce a final result. In the end, the students need to submit a final written report and to make a presentation to both their supervisor AND the company. This piece of work is graded by both parties and, if passed, awards the students 6 ECTS credits (one tenth of the program).
Our MIB students not only study the latest theories in their chosen field, but they also undergo a real-life executive training period (for a minimum of 2 months) in the company of their choice. During this period, they will be able to connect the theories of management to hands-on experience and test the cross-cultural skills they will have developed at IESEG School of Management.
IESEG has a full team dedicated to developing relationships with private corporations and to assisting MIB students with their internship needs, such as Hewlett Packard, St Gobain, Arcelor Mittal, L'Oréal, Samsung.
Important: The internship is OBLIGATORY for a scheduled completion of the program. In the scheme of things, the internship counts for 10 of the 60 ECTS credits.
