5 years
Bachelor Cycle of the Grande École Program
Get ready to grow and drive positive change in the world.
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English – French
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Lille – Paris
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€14,900 (1st year – 2026-2027 tuition fees)
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September
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300 ECTS
Accreditations
Bachelor Cycle: 3 years committed to learning
The first stage of the Grande École Program, the Bachelor cycle gives students three years to grow academically, personally, and professionally. They acquire the fundamentals of management and a range of transferable skills while refining the career plans that will guide their choice of major in the Master’s cycle.
The curriculum is built on a foundation of core management disciplines (marketing, finance, accounting, economics, business ethics, etc.). It includes an introduction to artificial intelligence, approached as a tool to be questioned and mastered with a critical mind. This foundation is complemented by a People Skills and Humanities course, which helps each student develop a professional mindset, and by courses dedicated to corporate social and environmental responsibility, which lies at the heart of the School’s vision: empowering changemakers for a better society.
International exposure begins in the very first year, through courses taught in English, foreign languages, and an academic exchange or an international experience on campus. Finally, three professional experiences, one at the end of each year, in France or abroad, allow students to put what they have learned into practice and gradually clarify their career direction.
Advantages of the Bachelor Cycle
- An interdisciplinary approach where students mobilize acquired knowledge and skills through projects in a cross-disciplinary way. This interdisciplinary approach incorporates the disciplines of management, economics, quantitative methods, law, and personal development.
- A skill-based approach: ‘learning by doing’: students learn via concrete situations (provided by companies or organizations), and real-life projects.
- Active pedagogy based on interactions between professors and students, mixing remote and physical courses.
- Access to a support platform designed to help students succeed.
Objectives of the Bachelor Cycle
- Provide each student with customized guidance.
- Facilitate students’ overall development with skill and knowledge acquisition.
- Help students develop intercultural skills, as well as a sense of ethics and responsibility.
- Prepare students for their transition to the Master cycle or the workforce by personalizing part of their academic path and providing career guidance.
Program of the Bachelor Cycle
The three years of the Bachelor Cycle are structured around six semesters with their own identity – built around the competency-based approach, along with transversal and interdisciplinary learning. Students’ engagement to their learning is even stronger when they work on projects that truly have meaning for them.
Great importance is also given to the development of students’ creative and innovative capacities, new ways of working and new challenges, such as artificial intelligence and digitalization.
> Starting in fall 2027, the Bachelor cycle of the Grande École Program is evolving: students admitted in first year will follow a redesigned curriculum, while those admitted in second or third year will follow the current curriculum.
Entry in Year 1
The three years of the Bachelor cycle allow students to grow academically, personally, and professionally. The cycle lays the foundations of the core management disciplines and introduces students to artificial intelligence, approached as a tool to be questioned and mastered with a critical mind.
This foundation is complemented by a People Skills & Humanities track, which helps each student develop a professional mindset. Courses taught in English, along with academic exchanges and international work experience, prepare students for cultural diversity.
Finally, a rich and varied internship track allows students to gradually refine their career plans and choose their major in the Master’s cycle.
Courses examples:
> Business Exploration
> Economic Environment
> Financial Accounting
> Marketing Management
> Corporate Finance
> Business Ethics
> Business Exploration
> Economic Environment
> Financial Accounting
> Marketing Management
> Corporate Finance
> Business Ethics
Courses examples:
> Algorithmic Thinking & Programming Structures
> Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
> Academic & Professional Toolbox
> Algorithmic Thinking & Programming Structures
> Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
> Academic & Professional Toolbox
Courses examples:
> Interpersonal & Team Effectiveness
> Creativity
> Assertiveness
> Philosophy for Managers
> Global History
> Career Program
> Interpersonal & Team Effectiveness
> Creativity
> Assertiveness
> Philosophy for Managers
> Global History
> Career Program
Courses examples:
> Responsibility Seminar
> Sustainability & Business
> Environmental & Energy Economics
> Responsibility Seminar
> Sustainability & Business
> Environmental & Energy Economics
Manual jobs, line work, maintenance…acquire an experience as an employee in a factory or service industry. Experience work requiring relatively low skills/qualifications.
1st year of the Bachelor cycle – 1 month minimum
> Discover the company and the work environment
> Experience work requiring no or limited skills
> Understand employee relations within a firm (minimum of 10 employees required at the place of internship)
> Discover the company and the work environment
> Experience work requiring no or limited skills
> Understand employee relations within a firm (minimum of 10 employees required at the place of internship)
Examples of internships:
> Supermarket Cashier
> Warehouse Logistician
> Helper in an animal shelter
> Supermarket Cashier
> Warehouse Logistician
> Helper in an animal shelter
Missions in direct contact with a diverse clientele and obligation to develop sales pitches.
2nd year of the Bachelor cycle – 2 months minimum
> Sales training
> Understand the sales field and experience sales related jobs
> Direct contact with a diverse clientele (face to face)
> Able to initiate sales related actions alone
> Sales training
> Understand the sales field and experience sales related jobs
> Direct contact with a diverse clientele (face to face)
> Able to initiate sales related actions alone
Examples of internships:
> Salesperson in a luxury boutique or specialized distribution store
> Service or Product Advisor in BtoB (insurance, tourism, IT, event management)
> Salesperson in a luxury boutique or specialized distribution store
> Service or Product Advisor in BtoB (insurance, tourism, IT, event management)
Missions within various fields such as: sales, finance, management, marketing, HR… according to the student’s career/professional project.
3rd year of the Bachelor cycle – 6 months minimum
> Discover or further explore the student’s career plan
> Use knowledge acquired in the Bachelor program to analyze a specific problem and propose operational solutions
> Discover or further explore the student’s career plan
> Use knowledge acquired in the Bachelor program to analyze a specific problem and propose operational solutions
Examples of internships:
> Accounting Assistant
> HR Researcher
> Assistant Marketing Product Manager
> Financial Controller Assistant
> Supply Chain Manager
> Accounting Assistant
> HR Researcher
> Assistant Marketing Product Manager
> Financial Controller Assistant
> Supply Chain Manager
Entry in Year 2 or 3
This semester introduces sales techniques, as well as the main disciplines of management. Students will thus learn to manage interdisciplinary courses and collective action related to a company’s innovation and development.
Objectives of the semester:
> Develop and demonstrate their creative and innovative abilities
> Integrate the legal dimension of intellectual property and brand protection
> Acquire the fundamentals of management disciplines
> Learn to select the most appropriate tools
> Develop and demonstrate their creative and innovative abilities
> Integrate the legal dimension of intellectual property and brand protection
> Acquire the fundamentals of management disciplines
> Learn to select the most appropriate tools
Courses examples:
> Marketing Management
> Imperfectly Competitive Markets
> Trademark Law
> Econometrics & Data Analysis
> Cost Accounting
> Sales Techniques
> Marketing Management
> Imperfectly Competitive Markets
> Trademark Law
> Econometrics & Data Analysis
> Cost Accounting
> Sales Techniques
Capstone Project: Designing & implementing a new offering on a market
> Design a product or service proposal for a market.
> Elaborate a coherent business plan, integrating market studies and a funding plan.
> Decipher economic and legal elements related to the targeted market and integrate them into the offering.
> Select and use quantitative decision-support tools with precision.
> Design a product or service proposal for a market.
> Elaborate a coherent business plan, integrating market studies and a funding plan.
> Decipher economic and legal elements related to the targeted market and integrate them into the offering.
> Select and use quantitative decision-support tools with precision.
Faced with the demands of profitability and economic competition, the company must be able to integrate social and environmental requirements, with the same level of priority. During this semester, students will be confronted with the reality of the corporate world: developing sustainable solutions combining growth with a positive social and environmental impact.
Objectives of the semester:
> Go further into depth and apply management disciplines
> Learn to make well-founded choices and balanced decisions
> Understand what motivates them as future professionals
> Act in an ethical and responsible way
> Go further into depth and apply management disciplines
> Learn to make well-founded choices and balanced decisions
> Understand what motivates them as future professionals
> Act in an ethical and responsible way
Courses examples:
> Management Control
> Sustainability Strategy
> Managing Resources
> Financial Analysis
> Philosophy for Managers
> Environmental & Energy Economics
> Management Control
> Sustainability Strategy
> Managing Resources
> Financial Analysis
> Philosophy for Managers
> Environmental & Energy Economics
Capstone Project: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
> Understanding the roots of differences to propose inclusive management solutions.
> Propose actions that promote diversity, equality, and inclusion.
> Learn to make balanced and consistent decisions while integrating these key issues.
> Understanding the roots of differences to propose inclusive management solutions.
> Propose actions that promote diversity, equality, and inclusion.
> Learn to make balanced and consistent decisions while integrating these key issues.
This semester concentrates on the integration and application of artificial intelligence and digital transformation with the perspective of creating a company. It emphasizes data analysis to enable entrepreneurs to understand their sector, make strategic decisions and predict customer behavior.
Objectives of the semester:
> Develop and implement their capacity for innovation and in the framework of entrepreneurial projects
> Demonstrate a sound understanding and mastery of management consulting assignments
> Tackle the challenges of digital transformation, develop and disseminate digital culture
> Develop their professional project and prepare their choice of Master major
> Develop and implement their capacity for innovation and in the framework of entrepreneurial projects
> Demonstrate a sound understanding and mastery of management consulting assignments
> Tackle the challenges of digital transformation, develop and disseminate digital culture
> Develop their professional project and prepare their choice of Master major
Courses examples:
> Digital Corporate Finance
> Design Thinking
> Introduction to AI
> Company Law
> Market Research
> Business Negotiation
> Digital Corporate Finance
> Design Thinking
> Introduction to AI
> Company Law
> Market Research
> Business Negotiation
Capstone Project: Creating Business
> Understand and implement a complete and structured project to create a company.
> Integrate and implement the elements of digital transformation.
> Adopt a strategic posture.
> Understand and implement a complete and structured project to create a company.
> Integrate and implement the elements of digital transformation.
> Adopt a strategic posture.
Students will either go on an exchange abroad or spend their semester at IÉSEG, spending a significant amount of time with international students and subjects of international, social, and cultural importance. The semester will be partly made up of electives.
Students who do not complete an academic exchange during their Bachelor cycle must attend this semester, which is resolutely international. International students on academic mobility will also take these courses.
Objectives of the semester:
> To be fully exposed to a cultural and international environment
> Adopt the international and cultural dimensions in the curriculum and learning environment through an academic exchange or internationalization “at home”
> Reinforce autonomy and decision-making skills
> Broaden skills by building the portfolio of courses in line with the student’s personal and professional project
> To be fully exposed to a cultural and international environment
> Adopt the international and cultural dimensions in the curriculum and learning environment through an academic exchange or internationalization “at home”
> Reinforce autonomy and decision-making skills
> Broaden skills by building the portfolio of courses in line with the student’s personal and professional project
Courses examples:
> Global Brand Management
> International Finance
> International Corporate Finance
> International Business Law
> International HRM
> Global Brand Management
> International Finance
> International Corporate Finance
> International Business Law
> International HRM
Zoom on… Possible gap semesters during the program
A gap semester/year is possible in each cycle (Bachelor and Master) between two semesters or two years of the program, for a period of one or two consecutive semesters, depending on when it is taken. During this period, students can complete one or more work placements or consolidate a personal, professional or entrepreneurial project.
Examples of gap semester:
> Supporting an NGO or association: associative mission in Peru supporting women entrepreneurs in the development and sustainability of their projects; HR support for the recruitment of volunteers for Doctors Without Borders; development of permaculture and an eco-friendly school in Indonesia; ecological volunteering in the Amazon combining agroforestry and beekeeping; turtle conservation in Costa Rica, etc.
> Business creation project: music label; company specializing in cutting-edge medical tools; family business, etc.
> Personal project: preparation for and participation in an Ironman; photo reportage to advocate for biodiversity in Sri Lanka and Nepal; global sailing expedition to support local associations in several countries, etc.
Going international
From academic exchanges to dual degrees, the Bachelor cycle of the Grande École Program offers many opportunities to study abroad and open up to the world.
Academic Exchanges
To graduate, every student must complete at least one semester of academic experience at one of IÉSEG’s partner universities or schools abroad. This exchange semester can take place in the Bachelor cycle, the Master cycle, or both.
One of the six semesters of the Bachelor cycle is dedicated to international experience:
> Exchange semester: it takes place in semester 4 or 5, between two semesters at IÉSEG.
> Internationalization at home: students who do not go on exchange during the Bachelor cycle take semester 6 on the IÉSEG campus. They study alongside international students in a program focused on international and intercultural topics.
Academic exchanges help students:
> become familiar with other teaching methods and other approaches to management;
> open up to other ways of thinking and living;
> strengthen their intercultural skills by learning to communicate and work in another culture.
Dual degrees
Through the School’s exchange programs, Grande École Program students can also earn a degree from a partner university:
- Pforzheim University (Germany)
- Universidat Politècnica de València (Spain)
- Fairleigh Dickinson University – Teaneck (NJ) (USA)
- Juniata College – Huntingdon (USA)
Internships
Three professional experiences (which may be internships or work contracts) are part of the Bachelor Cycle, at the end of the academic year.
- Social and Professional Internship
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> more information - Professional Internship
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Learning based on language practice
To reinforce their international dimension, students must follow a compulsory language course (French for non-French speakers or German, Spanish or Italian) and can also choose a second language option from one of the following languages:
- German
- Spanish
- Italian
- Mandarin
- Portugese
- Arabic
- Russian
- Japanese
Students have access to an e-learning facility.
Zoom on… the Excellence Program
This program is designed for students whose academic record at IÉSEG demonstrates recognized excellence, supporting them in gaining admission to the world’s most prestigious universities (Harvard, LSE, Stanford, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, LBS, Cornell, Columbia, MIT, Wharton, etc.).
IÉSEG, via its selection committee, studies each application to define the most appropriate type of support and assistance for each applicant (financial, human, etc.). The Excellence Program offers a unique opportunity for academic growth and exposure to new cultures.
Partnerships
All Grande École Program students follow mandatory online courses in web development and in Data Science, designed and taught by Le Wagon, an internationally recognized coding school.
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