Key figures and labels
1873: Foundation of Bordeaux Business School.
State accredited.
EQUIS accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).
Amba accreditation from the Association of MBAs, for its Wine MBA

2,123 students
400 international students on-campus, from more than 24 countries
10,225 graduates across the world
75 full-time or visiting professors
420 Lecturers from Business and private companies
78 University partnerships in 32 countries 
6 foreign languages 

34 student associations, in which exchange students are welcome: Student Union, Junior Company, Aiesec, Sports, Culture, Communication, Investment, Leisure.

With one of the largest university campuses in France right on the doorstep, students at Bordeaux Business School are spoilt for choice when it comes to sport and recreation. All traditional and some less traditional - winter and summer, indoor and outdoor sports are catered for as well as regional sports such as pelota. Bordeaux boast several swimming pools and golf courses, and the School is within easy reach of water sports facilities at Bordeaux Lac and the Atlantic coast, host to various international surfing competitions. Abundant snow sports are on offer in the Pyrenean mountains, just a two-hour drive from Bordeaux.

Master of Science in Management
Degree title: Master of Science in Management
National Education accredited (Grande Ecole)
1299 students
344 students graduated in 2006
Beginning of class: early September
Duration: 20 mouths (6 months internship included)
Tuition fees: €15,000

Higher Institution in Management
As a leading Higher Institution in Management, the Master of Science in Management has, for many years, developed the skills and competences of its students in order to render them responsible and highly qualified. We focus on general management disciplines - accounting, finance, human resource management, management information systems, marketing, operations, and strategy - with special emphasis on understanding consulting approaches and entrepreneurial perspectives in Europe and, more generally, in international situations.

MASTER 1

Semester 1
Excellence in Core Management (Core courses, MScM). September to December
This MScM program covers the fundamental aspects of advanced business including economics, accounting, finance, marketing, human resource management, operation management, strategy, and quantitative analysis.

Introductory seminar
Four aims for our Integration Seminar: First, to introduce the make-up of the program and the main elements of the curriculum. Second, to allow us to get to know each other. Third, to make available some background information on the professors who will be teaching during the program. Fourth, to get to know Bordeaux and practical information.

Core Courses
The breadth of courses reflects the School’s ongoing commitment to keeping its MScM program relevant to students. These courses are designed to bring into focus the initial required topics of study and apply them to each student’s interest.
Introduction to Economics and Economic Forecasting
Introductory Financial Accounting
Introductory Management Accounting
Principles of Finance
Investment Analysis
Principles of Marketing
Marketing Communications
Principle of Human Resource Management
Organizational Theory and Behavior
Production and Operations Management
Strategic analysis
Quantitative Analysis

Electives
These courses are completed by seminars and workshops in personal development, cultural awareness, time management and personal organization, foreign languages for business, etc.

Assessment
Assessment is based on:
- formal assessment for each course, completed either during the contact hours or during the intersessions. These assessments comprise in-class exams and/or essays.
- in-class assessment (presentations of case studies, simulation games, role play etc…).

Semester 2
Designing Organizations for Performance (Spring Semester, MScM). January to June
The program centers on solid academic models with extensive use of case studies and operating best practices.
Provides students with a perspective on the essential organizational challenges encountered by global managers, such as how to build worldwide competitive advantage, implement new market entry strategies, and foster international collaboration, coordination and learning in a global network. Focuses on how these organizational challenges play out on the management of various functional areas such as finance, marketing, manufacturing, and human resources.

Courses
Introduction to Auditing
Advanced Auditing and Assurance Services
Comparative Management
Change Management
International Marketing
Consumer Behavior
Financial Institutions & Markets
Financial Derivatives
Strategic Management and Strategic Choices
Risk Management
International Accounting
Management Information Systems
Ethics and Business Leadership

Electives
These courses are completed by seminars and workshops in personal development, cultural awareness, time management and personal organization, foreign languages for business, etc.

Assessment
Assessment is based on:
- formal assessment for each course, completed either during the contact hours or during the intersessions. These assessments comprise in-class exams and/or essays.
- in-class assessment (presentations of case studies, simulation games, role play etc…).
- Final exams (Marketing, Finance, Strategy)

Specific Assignment
With one group project or assignment inside corporations - referred to as "PRO TEAM" - students can face the realities of business. It is compulsory and organized in small groups of 5 students each: project from September to June.

BETWEEN MASTER 1 AND MASTER 2

Internships
The work placement enables the student to apprehend the company's various functions and to add value to a CV. Placement can be carried out in France or abroad.
Short term internship (summer).
Long term internship (1 year).

MASTER 2

Semester 1
Entrepreneurial Management (Fall Semester, MScM). September to december
The entrepreneurship concentration is for MScM students who want to start a new venture, manage a high growth business, lead a new venture within an existing organization, work in a turn-around business or provide financial or consulting services to entrepreneurial companies.
At its best, a business school should be an "incubator of ideas" a place where students have the resources and support to explore new ideas and learn how to lead a company into the future. Building on its fifteen-year history of research and teaching in the field of entrepreneurship, BBS enables students to test their business ideas in a risk-free environment. Students are free to follow their inspiration and imagination while benefiting from a deep collection of resources: faculty advisors, access to technology and a network of BBS alumni, and the diverse expertise of their classmates.

Courses
Thesis: Strategic Entrepreneurship
Evaluating the Entrepreneurial Opportunity
Cross-Cultural Management
Management of Technology and Innovation
Economic Intelligence for Industrial Strategies
Employment Relations in Europe
Entrepreneurial Finance
E-Business Strategy
European Corporate Governance
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
Effective Leadership
Country and Political Risk Analysis

Electives
These courses are completed by seminars and workshops in personal development, cultural awareness, time management and personal organization, foreign languages for business, etc.

Assessment
Assessment is based on:
- formal assessment for each course, completed either during the contact hours or during the intersessions. These assessments comprise in-class exams and/or essays.
- in-class assessment (presentations of case studies, simulation games, role play etc…).

Opportunity
Students have the opportunity to spend this semester abroad. A selection process is organized based on the academic results of each student obtained during the Master 1.

Semester 2
The MScM Academic Internship Program (Internship, MScM)
The MScM Academic Internship Program at BBS is designed to provide you with meaningful work experience in a variety of industries, allowing you to apply academic knowledge and skills to a business working on real-world projects.
The experience should give you an opportunity to apply your analytical thinking to business problems of strategic importance.
Internships can assist you with:
- Getting a job through obtaining first-hand information about specific positions, developing and positioning professional skills, and gaining resume-building experience.
- Exposure to a network of contacts and learning about different organizational cultures.
- Clarifying your career goals and confirming your interest in a specific industry and functional area.

Additional Semester
Students have the chance to spend an additional semester abroad (exchange students who have spent at least a semester in a University partner). A selection process is organized based on the academic results of each student, obtained during the Master 1. Additional tuition fees are required. Possible dual degree.

Chairs: added value for all students
The Chairs are organised around the specific study of a sector of activity or a function. They are education and research programmes set up by professionals with financial backing from companies. They are open to all students from all Bordeaux Business School programmes, after selection following application and interview.

A prime economic position
Aquitaine is a particularly innovative region, classed 3rd in the ranking of French regions in terms of research; Bordeaux excels in the bio-materials and composite materials domains. Bordeaux is also in an advanced position in the agriculture and agro-alimentary domains, in aeronautical, wood/paper/cardboard, electronic and information technology, health, chemicals, and environmental sectors.
More than 20% of Aquitaine’s companies have head offices abroad and the Gironde department alone has more than 300 companies of this type. Bordeaux and its surroundings have for many years played host to FORD, SOLECTRON, the SMURFIT group, the DEGUSSA group, SONY, SIEMENS MATSUSHITA, IBM, AKZO NOBEL, VALMET and many others.

Fast and easy access to Bordeaux
The road, rail and air infrastructures serving this great western-European metropolis place Bordeaux at the heart of an operational system: three major road axes which allow access throughout Europe (North-South Atlantic, Trans-European, South East), 125 daily departures from Bordeaux station (3 hours from Paris by TGV), 38 regular destinations flown to daily (1 hour to Paris by plane), of which half are to destinations abroad.

A unique region for tourism
Bordeaux has been officially included on the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites as of 28 June 2007.
Bordeaux is known worldwide for the quality of its wines exported to over 160 countries and its exceptional position between ocean (300km of beaches) and mountains. The region offers a huge diversity of tourist sites such as the Landes, the Pyrenees, the Atlantic coast and the unique Arcachon basin. Bordeaux has also opened the doors of its 5,000 châteaux and its 60 cooperative wine houses, with their wealth of 57 labels, which show off the natural flavours of the regional gastronomy.
For generations, the traditions of entertaining and of living well have been anchored in the bordelaise soil. Finally, Bordeaux houses France’s most compelling examples of 18th century architecture.

Melting Potes is the international students’association in Bordeaux Business School (BEM) which is present all year round to help international students integrate into French life and enjoy their stay in Bordeaux.

The Melting Potes association is right now made up of 8 French students :
. Noémie or Naomi (English, Spanish, Italian)- noemie.delattre@bordeaux-bs.edu - marsu294@hotmail.com - + 33 6 67 54 27 74
. Clara or Clarita (English, Spanish) - clara.lucas@bordeaux-bs.edu - marseillaise_91@hotmail.com - + 33 6 28 06 69 05
. Mathilde or Mathilda (English, Spanish) - mathilde.xicola@bordeaux-bs.edu - cartixicola@hotmail.fr - +33 6 13 40 02 41
. Jenny (English, Spanish, Mandarin, Quantonais, Vietnamese) -jenny.nguyentrung@bordeaux-bs.edu - jenjen_nguyen@hotmail.com - +33 6 20 06 07 12
. Anne-Catherine or Anne-K (English, German)- anne-catherine.zaug@bordeaux-bs.edu - schnappi_frog@hotmail.fr - +33 6 77 08 15 43
. Gaëlle (English, Spanish)- gaelle.vincent@bordeaux-bs.edu - gaelle.vincent2@wanadoo.fr - +33 6 87 52 58 25
. Joanne or JoAnn (English, German, Alsatian) - joanne.goldschmidt@bordeaux-bs.edu - crazygold_girl@hotmail.fr - +33 6 33 09 08 69
. Inès (English, Spanish, Arabic)- ines.ennaifer@bordeaux-bs.edu - i_ennaifer@hotmail.fr - +33 6 66 51 27 83


Their missions :
• Welcome and integrate studients as soon as they arrive in Bordeaux.
• Help them find an accommodation, open a bank account, cope with red tape.
• Organize social events.
• Keep them informed of all the activities offered by Bordeaux Business School.

Useful information

Tourist Office in Bordeaux - http://www.bordeaux-tourisme.com/
12 cours du 30 Juillet
 05 56 00 66 00
otb@bordeau-tourisme.com

MELTING POTES - pb2face@hotmail.com - melting.potes@bordeaux-bs.edu
President : Noémie de Lattre - + 33 6 67 54 27 74
Vice-President : Clara Lucas - + 33 6 28 06 69 05

Accommodation: CIJA - http://www.info-jeune.net/
Transportation
AIR France - http://www.airfrance.fr
Merignac Airport - http://www.bordeaux.aeroport.fr/
Easyjet (low cost airline) - http://www.easyjet.com/fr/reserver/index.asp
Ryanair (low cost airline)- http://www.ryanair.com/site/FR/
SNCF (French Railways) - http://www.voyages-sncf.com/leisure/fr/launch/home/
 36 35
 Switchboard in Bordeaux train station 05 47 47 10 00
Transport en Commun de Bordeaux / Connex - http://www.infotbc.com/
Taxi Plus -  06 11 91 63 44 - http://www.kiwispirit.com/taxi-marcy/
Jet’bus (Airport to Bordeaux city centre) - http://www.keolis-gironde.com:80/fr/4-lignes-autocar-gironde/simpletexte/?referer=navette-aeroport-bordeaux

Tramway
AlloTBC:  05 57 57 88 88
www.infotbc.com

Travel
To travel in France by train: SNCF. (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français !)
You can log on this website www.voyages-sncf.com where you can either buy train tickets that can be sent to your home or be withdrawn in a travel or SNCF agency, or you can buy your ticket at an automatic teller at the station.

Bordeaux-Paris: 3 hours or 3:30 hours: about 70€ for a normal 2nd class ticket Bordeaux-Toulouse: 2 hours: about 30€ for a normal ticket.

You can buy “Découverte 12-25 tickets”, which means you’ll have a 25% discount on every ticket you buy since you are between 12 and 25 years old.

If you stay here for one year and you want to discover France… you can buy the “Carte 12-25” which enables you to have a 25% or 50% discount on every ticket you buy.

Mobile phone
Main Mobile Operators
Bouygues Telecom - http://www.bouyguestelecom.fr/
Orange - http://www.orange.fr/
SFR - http://www.sfr.fr/