IAE Aix Graduate School of Management

MSc in Audit and Corporate Governance

This program requires proficiency in English and French.

"Our programme is based on the following fundamental principles:

* a close partnership with the corporate world

* courses that associate university professors and speakers from the corporate world

* long periods of training in Internal Audit departments (6 months minimum)

* a pedagogic quality in accordance with International EQUIS and AMBA norms."

Jacques Vera, Programme Director

Objectives

Our programme is totally oriented toward the preoccupations of our "Customers" who are Auditing students and professionals:

-- Students: on one hand, providing them with the knowledge, know-how and interpersonal skills required for their future profession and on the other hand, favouring their professional insertion through numerous contacts organised with our partner firms (InternalAudit departments and External Audit consultants),... [-]

MSc in Corporate Communication & Change Management

This program requires proficiency in English and French.

"Corporate communication is evolving – it endeavors to inform managers in order to involve them in the conception and management of strategies as well as in the processes of Communication and Change.

Within this framework, the aim of this program is to provide participants with generalist training oriented toward management and international communication. Its perspective, between expertise and management, is to favor the strategic positioning of the Director of Communication in a firm."

Kiane Goudarzi and Marie Marin, MSc Directors

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Master of Science, speciality General Management

Two tracks available:

This MSc’s degree is the IAE network's first and foremost degree programme. It capitalises on this degree's fifty years of experience, retaining its key strengths and successes, and offering its participants a global approach to management to combine with their skills acquired during their first degree. Beyond encapsulating the latest management theories and practices, it focuses on developing change skills and flexibility, often in an international context.

Objectives

Companies are now seeking generalist managers able to lead the technical, human and managerial aspects of projects and business units. The degree’s interdisciplinary approach to management goes beyond functional barriers and enables participants to better understand a constantly-changing business environment. It fosters the critical analysis of complex situations, developing participants' individual skills (active listening, self-reliance, resourcefulness, willingness to question and change) and highlights the importance of corporate social skills.... [-]

MSc in Human Resources and Relationship Management

This program requires proficiency in English and French.

Created in 1978, this programme, which was pioneered in France, offers the possibility to obtain two degrees: the Master's in Human Resources Management and the University Diploma in Relational Management.

The objective of this full-time programme is to give a dual competence to future DRH or HR specialists. The first is a confirmed capacity for relations, listening, leadership, negotiation, all through an indispensable personal self-knowledge. The second aptitude is having an excellent mastery of the "management" rather than the "administrative" tools of HR.

MSc in Information System Governance

This program requires proficiency in English and French.

New information technologies and the development of communications are transforming organisations and the methods of corporate management. Most firms and social organisations are noting that their relations with the environment have profoundly changed. Reorganisation of corporate processes cannot currently be imagined without extensive integration of information technologies and the new methods of management to accompany them. From now on, most competitive advantages will be obtained directly or indirectly from the intelligent use of these technologies.

The essential aim of this programme is to train high-level executives and creators of firms to be capable of applying these methods, to design these processes and to integrate the various technical systems into the fabric of the organisation and its environment, in the framework of innovative and coherent development strategies.... [-]

MSc in International Business

This program requires proficiency in English.

"This programme prepares participants for international professions – specifically, import-export.

It enables students to acquire a broad understanding of how firm functions within a European context and more broadly within an international context.

In order to take no chances, the students are sponsored by Counsellors of French Foreign Trade and can take the Professional Certification Examination with the same committee."

Delphine Lacaze, Faculty Advisor

Objectives

This programme addresses the candidates wishing to work within international companies. Europe includes an important number of specificities which we have to know to succeed in business. These specificities are so much cultural as institutional or still economic.... [-]

MSc in International Finance

This program requires proficiency in English.

SMBG Ranking: the Master International Financial Management of the IAE Aix is ranked among the best Programmes in Finance.

The aim of the International Financial Management speciality is to prepare students for positions in this renewed financial atmosphere. Thus, it includes strategy, the institutional environment, practices and tools that will enable them to contribute to the success of their firms.

This programme is essentially concentrated on the advanced study of the financial mechanisms of firms and financial institutions. The most recent developments related to financial markets, financial strategy and control are presented in all their academic and professional aspects.... [-]

MSc in Marketing & Brand Management

This program requires proficiency in English and French.

This programme will enable participants to be operational in the positions of product manager, brand manager, marketing manager and quantitative and qualitative market study manager.

On completion of this degree, students will master the most up-to-date marketing tools:

MSc in Reporting and Management Control

This program requires proficiency in English and French.

Management Control remains a pivotal role in the coordination and steering of organizational activities, meriting its clout in the management field. Consequently, it must create and develop a system to evaluate performance, ensuring a coherent implementation of strategies. The contours of performance no longer remain strictly financial. Value management leads to a joint optimization of costs and quality, implying management control is largely the process of orientation. New tools have emerged to complement traditional management accounting, including Activity-Based Costing, Activity-Based Management, Target Costing, Strategic Cost Management, and Balanced Scorecard. The arrival of the new accounting norms (IFRS) in Europe and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the United States further reinforce the reality of this ever-evolving field.... [-]

MSc in Service Activities Marketing & Management

This program requires proficiency in English and French.

MBG Ranking: the Master Services Management of the IAE Aix is ranked among the best Programmes in Services Marketing.

The pedagogic objective is to prepare participants for the responsibilities of functional of operational management in commercial firms, service providers, or industrial firms developing their service activities. It is, therefore, a question of training managers capable of applying knowledge acquired in the principal functional domains in the field while at the same time taking into account the specificities of service management. The originality of this specialisation is in the teaching of three disciplines that are essential for service management: Marketing, Human Resources and Operations.... [-]

MSc in Management in 2 years

This program requires proficiency in English.

"This first year, which includes gaining professional experience and/or traveling abroad, is the occasion to live exciting experiences in the midst of dynamic clubs, to develop original projects, and to use the IAE Aix as an environment for self-expression and relationships.

Cécile Bozzo, Faculty Advisor

Courses

International Track Exchange Programme in a foreign university + short-term internship... [-]

International Master in Management of Information Technology

This program requires proficiency in English.

The International Master’s in Management of IT (IMMIT) programme prepares students to act as intermediaries between business users and Information Technology specialists in an international environment, and thus become “hybrid” managers at the interface between InformationTechnology and Business functions.

IMMIT consists of integrative skills and knowledge needed for effective use of Information Technology to support international business operations and management.

Organisation and Structure of IMMIT

IMMIT is a two year, integrated Master programme, specialized in IT management, organised between 3 university partners from renown European Institutions:... [-]

Master's in General Management for Executives

This program requires proficiency in English and French.

A global approach to management for corporate executives

"Companies are often looking for Managers who have both a specialised area of competence as well as a general approach and are therefore capable of directing an activity in all of its aspects: technical, human and managerial. This programme goes beyond simply acquiring the basic management methods and techniques and focuses on how to work and adapt to various contexts, particularly an international environment. The Master's in General Management can be joined in its second year and is recognised by the European LMD system. The master's programme has been organised in a way which can help you access the full-time and part-time MBA programmes at IAE Aix via:... [-]

Master in General Management Frames

Organization of programs

If you are active

Whether you come under the training plan of your company, individual training leave or an individual, you have the choice between two courses:

If you are the applicant 's job

MASTER intensive MG is eligible under the PARE.

Goal

Master of Global Innovation Management

This program requires proficiency in English.

The Global, Dual Degree in Business Innovation and the Innovative advantage of learning between two worlds Europe - United States.

This one-year program awards two master degrees:

* Master in Business Administration specialized in Innovation awarded by the IAE Aix Graduate School of Management - Université Paul Cezanne, France.

* Master of Global Innovation Management awarded by Poole College of Management - North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC, United-States.

Program Goals

The Master of Global Innovation Management responds to a growing need identified by European, U.S. and international companies, who report that they are seeking “technically trained graduates who have a global perspective, who can think outside the box, and who can efficiently transfer Technology to Market.”... [-]

MRes in Management Sciences

of the Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille University

This program requires proficiency in English and French.

The Master's of Research in Management Sciences of the Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille University prepares students for access in the best conditions to a doctoral programme that meets the requirements for international research and enables them to follow an academic track to become a university or business school professor-researcher. It also leads to high-level positions in the consulting domain as well as to management positions in national and international organisations.

The make-up of this Master's, with a methodological common-core syllabus that is indispensable for research in Management Sciences and courses in a speciality, responds to the expectations of organisations and research.... [-]