Master in Management (MIM) - Applying with an International Degree

ESSEC France (Cergy) Campus

• With the Flexible Track, you start with refresher courses which are geared at bringing your current knowledge to the required level or you can even start core courses of the Master's program if you already have a previous background in management. After that, from trimester 2 onwards, you will personalise your curriculum: next to the following core courses you choose from the many electives (more than 200) that you find interesting.

• With the Intensive Track, you will have access to online resources to work during the summer to acquire the fundamentals of management courses and be able to start the core courses and electives of the MIM program. You gain the essentials with 3 core courses and 3 to 4 electives each trimester so you have a choice even within a condensed curriculum. You also get to study an additional language right from the first term. 

Exclusively at the ESSEC Singapore Campus, refresher courses are integrated with hands-on business consultancy experience ("Junior Consultant Experience") with respectable firms operating in Asia (Club Med, Sodexo, etc.). From the challenges of social business to entrepreneurial initiatives, you will be able to put your knowledge into practice. 

With both tracks, you validate 9 mandatory core courses which can be taken on either ESSEC campus, as well as a SPOC on Management & Society. 

Students will follow 5 transversal ESSEC strategy core courses aimed at helping them understand the societal challenges of our times and preparing them to become leaders who will make a difference in the world of tomorrow: Responsible Leadership, Company and Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Entrepreneurship, Diversity and Inclusion…

Starting in Singapore provides the benefit of guaranteed access to the following exclusive tracks.

• Flexible Track - Choose a Track in trimesters 2 & 3 after your refresher courses from the following: 

• • Corporate Finance in Asia - This tracks allows you to specialize during your foundation year in a dedicated track where you study major financial concepts, measure the time value of money, structure linear derivatives, etc. 

• • Business Management in Asia - Provides you with a solid foundation for a steep and successful career in Asia: home to a few of the fastest growing and most promising economies in the world

• • Tech, Innovation & Entrepreneurship - Lets you become a part of the Silicon Valley of Asia and bring business ideas to life: ESSEC's partnership with the Action Community of Entrepreneurship (ACE) Singapore and its close proximity to LaunchPad@JTC provide a conducive environment for budding entrepreneurs.

• • FinTech in Asia - This track is oriented towards students wishing to pursue a career linking technology, innovation and finance to provide automated banking, insurance and trading services and risk management, to serve consumers (applications on smartphones…) and to design electronic platforms (crowdfunding, cryptocurrency…)

• • One innovative pedagogical component of the Grande Ecole program is the Asian Strategy Project (ASCP) in partnership with Capgemini Invent. Created seven years ago, this project was implemented with the view to provide a digital transformation strategy, revamping business models to address challenges faced by companies in the Asian region.

• Intensive Track 

Students choose the Intensive Track to make their mark in the job market as soon as possible. You embark on an intensive and fast-track validation of academic courses throughout the year. However, your experience is not limited to academic curriculum only. In the first term (T1), you continue to immerse yourself into the MIM with consulting project, study trip, iMagination Week, etc. 

One innovative pedagogical component of the Grande Ecole program is the Asian Strategy Project (ASCP) in partnership with Capgemini Invent. Created seven years ago, this project was implemented with the view to provide a digital transformation strategy, revamping business models to address challenges faced by companies in the Asian region.

This week is an important and mandatory pedagogical step in your curriculum. This 4-and-a-half-day program around transdisciplinarity takes place at the beginning of the first year of the Master cycle under the patronage of an alumni of the Grande École program.

It brings together the entire promotion and is the first common event between students from different backgrounds. The week's schedule is intense as well as inspiring, with a series of conferences by international experts and workshops tutored by creative professionals. In groups of 5 students from various backgrounds, you will develop an original point of view based on the year's theme.

The challenge will be to present to your classmates and tutors at the end of the week a unique and visionary project that addresses this issue. To do so, you will apply the principles of creativity and tools of the unique Design Thinking- iMagination method that you will learn and practice throughout the seminar. Your personal commitment will be key to taking full advantage of the time for reflection and questioning that this seminar offers.

200+ elective courses offered in English and in French. All tracks on the Singapore campus are taught entirely in English. Some tracks are offered on both campuses; others are campus-specific.

• Flexible Track - With the remainder 70% of course requirements, you are free to choose to continue your studies in France or in Singapore or study in an international exchange or double degree. Choose a generalized path or specialize in one particular job or field via the specializations offered. At this point, it is entirely up to you to decide what you study, depending on where your interests lie and what best fits your future career plans. Please note that some specializations on the Cergy campus are taught entirely or partially in French so a grasp of the French language for international students is necessary if they wish to add these courses to their curriculum.

• Intensive Track - Each trimester, students have the possibility to choose up to 3 or 4 electives from the 200+ electives available in the MIM program. While acquiring the base with core business courses, students specialise at the same time to give an edge to their academic curriculum.

You also have to study a foreign language during your time at the school. If you do not speak French, you will take a mandatory French language course. You are also free to study additional languages: German, Arabic, Mandarin, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian, Portuguese, and Russian.

A Chair is a partnership established between our faculty (teaching staff) and one or several corporate sponsors. The objectives of a Chair are to develop and support research in a particular area of expertise, encourage and facilitate networking opportunities and exchanges, and - more importantly - provide skills and experience to train future leaders in the field. In other words, train you! 

As part of the Chair, you will be able to follow elective courses, take part in seminars, visit and meet up with companies, get access to a whole range of internship offers, attend and help organise conferences, go on study trips… and network! 

Some of the Chairs offered at ESSEC Business School:  ESSEC Sports Chair, Accenture Strategic Business Analytics Chair, Food Business Challenges Chair, LVMH Chair - The future of Luxury…

You will need to provide:

• 1 Management test score - mandatory
• 1 English test score - mandatory. The English test is not required if the applicant has spent at least 3 years in a higher education program completely taught in English. In that case, please provide us an official certificate with the mention that the medium of instruction is English

*The tests must be valid at the time of the closing of the application session.

It can take several months to prepare and register for an exam slot for these tests. Keep this in mind before starting your application as, without these test scores uploaded in your application file, it will be incomplete. To increase your chance of being accepted into the program, a competitive is required. To get feedback on your score, please get in touch with us via the "Contact us" button! 

Click here to take the GMAT Quiz and get an estimate of your score. Please note that you cannot apply with a GMAT Quiz score.

Create your candidate account. You can fill in the online application at your own pace and come back to it at any point. You can only apply once per program each academic year.

Once validated, your campus choice is final.

All documents must be provided in English or French. Official translations by a certified translator will also have to be provided for documents in other languages. Incomplete applications will not be processed. 

A complete online application includes the following items:

There are several rounds of applications. Once you have submitted your application online you cannot make changes to your application.

• Each part of your application will be thoroughly studied.
• You will be notified via email. 
• Then you can access the result via the application portal
• Please be aware that the Admissions Jury reserves the right to consider the transfer of your application to the Flexible Track should your profile align more suitably with the flexible study pace or if your prior professional experience does not meet the qualifications required for the Intensive Track.

Am I a part of an automatic shortlisting partnership program?

Shortlisted applicants will be contacted for an interview via videoconference.

The objective of this 45-minute interview is:

• To understand you better: your personality and your values
• To evaluate your professional and personal project and its coherence with the program

The jury will then deliberate on your overall application and decisions will be submitted to the Program Director and ESSEC Admissions Jury. You will be notified about the admission result by email (refer to the above-mentioned timetable). 

If you have been successful, you will then be contacted by the Admissions Office to inform you how to confirm your place in the program. 

Check your results

Following your admission, make sure to secure your seat in the program by paying the non-refundable deposit within 2 weeks. This amount will be deducted from your tuition fee. Please visit the "Financing" tab. 

You need more information to prepare your application? Please refer to this link for insights on our application portal.