Global BBA – Bachelor in Business Administration

Course information: the 4-year Global BBA

Bilingual track or 100% in English, international destinations, internships in business and in start-ups, apprenticeship, entrepreneurship, Masters track, etc. Throughout your course you will customize your pathway within the Global BBA. A great way to combine your personal desires and your professional career trajectory!

Highlights

Each year will enable you to gradually reaffirm your professional career path via:

• Core courses in management (management, economics, marketing, accounting, finance, strategy, human resources, international development, etc.)
• Business simulation games
• A real consultancy project in internationalisation with local businesses
• A project supporting local associations (Social Engagement Project)
• Professional guidance pathway in the 4^th year:
  • Enterprise Specialism
  • Masters track (elective courses in line with the studies you are aiming to pursue: finance, marketing, innovation management, sustainable development, purchasing, logistics & supply chain, etc.)
  • Community association track (timetable adapted to facilitate community engagement)
• A wide variety of professional experiences including an internship in a start-up and at least one internship abroad
• The possibility of business/school block release (as an apprenticeship)
• Acquisition of a strong digital culture via a progressive learning pathway (from the 1^st to the 4^th year of the course) with NEOMA Coding School.

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Skill sets

When you graduate with a Global BBA from NEOMA Business School, you will be an operational manager, a generalist evolving in a multicultural and/or international environment.

This trajectory is structured around 5 skill sets:

• Managing teams and managing an operational service or unit
• Proving your personal and professional agility
• Creating/developing projects and businesses within global and intercultural contexts
• Mobilising teams and yourself towards a common objective
• Developing creative thought and creating value in projects and processes

See all the skills of the Global BBA at NEOMA recorded on the French Register of Professional Certifications (RNCP): RNCP sheet No. 23737

Professional experience

Academic exchange in the 2nd year

The 2^nd year of your course is the year you spend time abroad. You can choose the duration of your exchange, undertaking an academic visit of six months or one year at one of our partner universities, all over the world! You will take courses and exams in English or in the language of the country (German, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.).

The Global BBA is based on the network of international partners of NEOMA BS.

• There are now 175 partners, spread over 5 continents, offering you a wide choice of destinations for your international academic exchange of six months or one year in the second year of the course.
• Our partner universities are selected for their quality and reputation. The aim of the exchange is to enable you to discover in situ a country, language and culture (IE Business School in Spain, BI School of Management in Norway, Singapore Management University, Universidad ESAN in Peru, Trinity College in Ireland, and more.).

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Focus on ‘Entrepreneurs accross borders’

This arrangement, initiated by NEOMA with 10 other prestigious business schools in Europe, Asia, the Americas, Oceania and the Middle East, enables students who so wish to follow enterprise and innovation courses at one of the universities in this international consortium (UC Berkeley, Hong-Kong Baptist University, FGV Brazil, and more), while enjoying the benefit of support from their Incubator. This is a unique opportunity to bring your project to life during your academic exchange, taking advantage of the expertise of a renowned institution and discovering a dynamic enterprise ecosystem that is culturally different from the French system. It’s the ideal experience to create a ‘born global’ start-up addressing international issues!

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International internships

A professional experience in another country is an essential complement to your training that enables you to put your skills into practice, so you will spend at least 6 months doing an international internship. All the internships offered can be done internationally.

In addition, if you are following the apprenticeship track, you have the benefit of distance courses to undertake a 6-month mission abroad in the 4^th year.

The second and third language

During your course you can continue or begin a second and third foreign language: Spanish, German and Chinese on all three campuses (Paris, Reims, Rouen); Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Arabic at Reims and Rouen only.

Your career after the Global BBA

After your four years of study, you have two options open to you: to begin your professional career, or to continue your studies to obtain a Bac+5, in France or abroad.

Continuing your studies

• 75% of graduates of the Global BBA continue their studies to Master level

When you have graduated, you can undertake university Masters courses, Masters of Science or Specialist Masters in business or engineering schools, or the Master in Management Programmes at the best institutions in France and abroad:

• EAE Business School Barcelona, HEC/ULG Liège, IE Business School Madrid, University of Salford, Cardiff, University of St Gallen, and more.
• In France: ESSEC or ESCP Europe.

Graduates of the Global BBA are guaranteed the opportunity to continue their studies on one of the full-time MSc courses at NEOMA (on condition they have the level of English required by the programme and after a validation and counselling interview with the director of the MSc concerned). Remember the NEOMA MSc courses have the benefit of giving you a Master-level qualification!

Entering the professional world

After the baccalaureate, you will have chosen the Global BBA because you wanted to work in businesses with an international outlook and evolve within a multicultural professional environment.

4 years later, your managerial and intercultural skills will be recognised and sought after by businesses for internationally facing roles, whether your post is based in France or elsewhere.

Target professions

Once you graduate, you can work in a wide variety of fields:

• Marketing and communications: product manager, communications manager
• Business & development: head of sector, customer relations manager, sales consultant, account manager, sales manager, client portfolio manager
• Purchasing and logistics: purchaser, logistics manager, supply chain manager
• Finance: management control, audit assistant, accounting assistant
• Project management: project manager

Companies where our graduates are currently working

Accenture, Accor, Air France, ALSTOM, Atos, AUCHAN,  Axa, Barclays,  BearingPoint,  Beijaflore,  BMW,  BNP  Paribas,  Bouygues, BPCE, Capgemini, Carrefour, Chanel, Crédit Suisse, Crédit Mutuel, CGI, CSC, CIC, Cora, Crédit Agricole, Crédit du Nord, Danone, Décathlon, Deutsche Bank, EDF, General Electric, Google, Henkel, Hermès, Hewlett Packard, HSBC, IBM,  JP  Morgan,  KLM,  La  Poste,  LCL,  LVMH,  L’Oréal,  McDonald’s,  Mondelez  International,  Michelin,  Natixis,  Nestlé, Orange, Oresys, Pernod Ricard, Philips, PSA, Procter & Gamble, Renault, Sanofi, SFR, Siemens, SNCF, Thales, TOTAL, Unilever, Valeo, Veolia, Yves Rocher

Admission procedures

Admission procedures depend on where your last qualification is from.

For those with a French qualification

You can join the Global BBA at NEOMA after the Baccalaureate via Parcoursup, or directly in the 3rd year via parallel admission.

Admission to the 1st year of the course

Profile: Holders of a baccalaureate who have been educated in France or at a French school abroad, and students who have embarked on an undergraduate course of French higher education and who wish to change direction.

Selection :

Once your intention to enter the Global BBA has been confirmed on Parcoursup you will need to take the ‘Concours SESAME’, a common entrance competition for 14 Business and International Management Schools.

1. 7 April 2021: 3 digitised written tests in multiple-choice form.
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2. Only candidates who have obtained sufficiently high results in the digitised written tests and in their academic record (marks for the ‘bac’ in French + marks for the last two years at school + comments on the candidate) are invited to the oral tests from 17 April to 2 May 2021
   Oral tests specific to the Global BBA: motivation interview and interview in English.

It is essential to practise in order to optimise your chances in the competition. We strongly advise you to register on Parcoursup as soon as it opens. You will then have the benefit of all the training tools in your reserved my SESAME space (training booklet, methodological advice, etc.) and will be able to familiarise yourself with the tests as much as possible.

For more information visit www.concours-sesame.net

Admission to the 3^rd year of the course

Profile: holders of a Bac+2, Bac+3, with a minimum level of CECR B2 in English and international experience (for example, internship or academic visit).

Selection: by dossier, motivation interview (in English – 25 minutes) and oral in English (15 minutes – free discussion).

• Online applications at http://apply.neoma-bs.fr/

The examination of dossiers is done in the following manner. If your application dossier is selected (Qualifications are eligible, your record of academic results has been examined, etc.), you will be invited to take part in the motivation interview via Skype (in view of the current situation with COVID 19).

Those who hold an international qualification

Admission to the 1^st year of the course

Profile: mother-tongue French speakers who have an international qualification of equivalent level to the French baccalaureate (A-Levels, full International Baccalaureate, Moroccan Bac, etc.), IELTS 6.0 or equivalent to enter the English track, IELTS 5.0 or equivalent and B2 minimum level of French to enter the Bilingual track.

Selection: by dossier and interviews (motivation + English).

• Online applications at http://apply.neoma-bs.fr/

Admission to the 3^rd year of the course

Selection: by dossier and interviews (motivation + English).

• Online applications at http://apply.neoma-bs.fr/

In view of the current situation, the examination of dossiers is ongoing. If your dossier of application is selected (Qualifications are eligible, your record of academic results has been examined, your level of English is satisfactory), you will be invited to take two oral tests via Skype (in view of the current situation with COVID 19).