Global BBA – Bachelor in Business Administration

Curriculum

The Global BBA in 4 years

Programme in full English or bilingual format, international destinations, internships with companies, apprenticeship (subject to specific legal provisions) and start-ups, entrepreneurship, masters track or business track… Throughout the entire programme you can customise your Global BBA curriculum. A great strategy for matching your desires and your professional project!

Is the term spent at a foreign university also completely in English? Who are some of the partner universities available to study with in the 3rd year? Find the answer in video :

The 1^st year

Acquisition of the core disciplines of business administration and management development of your English language skills for students who are not natives.

The Year’s Key Points

• Programme either completely in English or in a bilingual format depending on your language level
• 4-month company internship: first professional experience in France or abroad

The 2^nd year

Time spent abroad, genuine long-term cultural and linguistic immersion.

Depending on your chosen curriculum, you will spend one semester or one year at one of our partner establishments on 5 continents. At this foreign institution you will take courses and sit for exams in English while studying the local language.

The 3^rd year

Upon returning to our campus, you will expand your studies from the past two years.

The Year’s Key Points

• The two-month start-up internship allows you to learn about this type of specific business and maybe send you down the path of your new career.
• The entrepreneurship course: courses intended to give you the basic skills that you will use in your future project in company creation.
• The Live Business Development Case: you will develop concrete and operational projects in international business expansion for local SMEs.

The 4^th year

• Entrepreneurship Track, aimed at giving you the tools for creating your own business
• and
• Integration of NEOMA’s Incubator : 6 months at school, 6 months at the Incubator

OR

• Masters Track, if you want to add a fifth year to your curriculum : A 6-month international internship, Electives matching your objectives in continuing your studies

The specific tracks

The Global BBA also offers specific programme tracks

• The entrepreneurship track, for students with a business creation project.
• The association track for students who want to manage or work in association projects.
• The apprenticeship track during the 3rd and 4th years or the 4th year of the programme.

The modern foreign languages

Throughout the programme you can start or continue a second or third modern foreign language: Spanish, German and Chinese on all three campuses (Paris, Reims, Rouen) ; Italien, Japanese, Portugese, Russian and Arabic in Reims or Rouen only.

Professional experience

International

An international environment

The Global BBA offers important international exposure in two forms :

• Academic exchange abroad in the 2^nd year
• 6-month international internship planned for the 4^th year

Academic Exchange

The Global BBA uses the NEOMA BS network of international partners to provide you with a wide range of destinations for your academic exchange abroad, lasting a semester or a year in the second year of the programme.

Our partner universities are selected for their quality and their reputation. The goal of this exchange is to give you the opportunity to discover a foreign country, its language and culture, in an immersive manner.

International internships

Since professional experience in another country is the ideal complement to your studies, allowing you to put to use your skills in a practical way, all of the offered internships can be done abroad.

Who are some of the partner universities available to study with in the 3rd year? Is the term spent at a foreign university also completely in English? Find the answer in video :

Careers

With greater knowledge and skills after your 4 years of studies, you are offered two choices: start your professional career, or continue your studies by entering a Masters programme in France or abroad.

Continuing your studies…

• 75% of students go on to a 1-year Masters programme

Supported by the French Ministry of High Education and Research, the Global BBA allows you to continue your studies at a Masters level once you’ve earned your diploma. You can study at management schools or at a university in France or abroad.

At NEOMA Business School, Masters programmes are offered to the Global BBA alumni (under the condition of a validation meeting with the MSc Academic Director). Please note that reaching the MSc programmes of NEOMA that way will benefit from the Master status.

Begin your career…

After finishing your secondary school studies, choose the Global BBA if you want to work for international companies and grow in a multicultural professional environment.

After 4 years, your managerial and intercultural skills will be recognised and sought after by various companies for international positions whether you are based in France or abroad.

• 100% of graduates find employment within 6 months, and 52% find a job before graduating
• The average job search time is 4 weeks
• The average starting salary is around €40,000
• 67% of graduates work outside of France

Admissions

First year admissions

The Global BBA is open to future holders of a secondary school leaving certificate equal in level to the French baccalaureate (A-Levels, full International Baccalaureate, Moroccan baccalaureate, etc.)

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

Holders of a two-year higher education degree or transferred credits (120 ECTS validated) can apply for a direct admission to the third year.

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