1st year of Bachelor

The aim of this first year is for students to understand entrepreneurial management mechanisms and to acquire the main notions for each subject. The program is based on classes of company’s Culture Subjects, Marketing, Operating Control, General Culture, Negotiation-Sales and Marketing Computing. It will be completed by a Business Game that will take place at the end of the year in which students will put into practice what they have learnt. During the first year of Bachelor, students will have to choose between studying in Spanish and studying in English.

2nd year of Bachelor

During the second year of the program, the classes will deal with the international aspect of business.
On that year, students can choose to study in a foreign university in Toulouse campus or to stay in Barcelona. If they choose the second option, they will have classes both Spanish and English.
The second year of Bachelor begins with the core subjects from September to February. That is when the optional period begins, during which students can choose between several options: E-Management or International Business.

3rd year of Bachelor

On this year, students can choose to study in Toulouse campus (in English or French) or to stay in Barcelona (in English and Spanish or 100% in English).

During the Third year, the training is completed by introducing the students with some technical subjects; the adaptation of some subjects to the working environment is treated in a specific way and the professional project of the student is made official.
The syllabus presents the same structure as the second year’s, with a core program that begins in September and ends in the middle of February, and is followed by the Optional Period that ends on the last working day of March with the Grand oral exam, during which students have to show their reasoning, synthesis and communication abilities.

As opposed to the second year’s system, third year students don’t have to choose fullloptions  : this allows them to get a personalized academic development according to their own interest for one or another formation.

Business culture

The aim of this area’s subjects is to reveal to the students the political, socio-economic, financial, legal and ethical mechanisms of nowadays society; mechanisms that have such a great influence both over the professional and the personal dimension.

Marketing

Marketing is an organizational function meant to stimulate, monitor and optimize the exchanges and relations with the clients, but also with the partners (suppliers, advisors, authorities, etc.). It is based on the use of several techniques that enable one to know the demand and the environment, but also of methods of action over the market that are meant to propose a global offer that might match with the market’s expectations.

The aims of this area are to train the students so they can master the different techniques of the operational marketing and the commercial action, to raise their awareness about the necessity of turning towards the client in nowadays globalized and hypercompetitive environment, to show the students the importance of the numerical economy and, finally, to train them to deal with the electronic marketing practices.

Management control

Understand the complexity, the principles and the difficulties of three key processes that will help to get relevant marketing information when decisions have to be made: information systems, operating control and finances.
The aim is to achieve a perfect mastery of all the tools that are in the hands of any executive to identify, anticipate and control the main key factors for business success, such as marketing accounting, investment choices and trading intelligence.

International

The international management consists in developing and organizing a company's international activity. Basing themselves on what they have learnt with the study of these subjects, students will have to understand the complexity of the exchanges at the international scale, manage negotiation situations with different speakers, from distributors and suppliers to clients and users.

Management

Management is the range of activities linked with the capacity to motivate, decide, schedule, coordinate and control.
At the end of the program, students are expected to know the main tools that are used for Human Resources control, to understand the functioning of groups within the professional environment and to know how to manage them, to know how to boss meetings , to understand the group phenomenon within organizations, to be able to interpret the existing power relations and to know how to manage projects.

Generic Competences

The aim of these studies is to give students the tools that will enable them to tackle and adapt to complex and unknown situations.
Different activities are done in order to develop the students’ critical mind, their ability to reappraise things and, above all, their curiosity.
Well beyond the simple acquisition of knowledge, the aim is to stimulate the students to enjoy all the complexity of the body of knowledge.

Languages

English comes as the first language and French, German, Chinese or Spanish can be chosen as second language. These subjects are part of the International discipline so that the students can manage and actually communicate in an international professional environment.

E-Management

Nowadays, information and communication technologies (ICT) are part of company professionals’ essential knowledge and skills package. The ICTs are a remarkable source of challenges and opportunities for future directors, who must be able to estimate their possibilities and potential. The students studying this option will be able to understand and measure the impact these technologies have on the different activities of the firm, but also to use their tools and methods.

International Business

This option prepares the students to be ready to know the specificities of the International Management and its implications, and also to get a critical estimation of some of the main lines of action. This option also prepares the students to understand the variations that happen in the organizational forms and the environments in which they manage, in accordance with the country they are in. It also gives them a guideline to evolve with flexibility and effectiveness in these environments.

Family firm management

Family firms represent a great part of the total number of firms in Catalonia but also in other places of the world and they show specificities one must know in order to do well ones job as a professional in this environment. This option teaches the students these specificities and shows the tools that can lead to an effective management.

Sales internship

From 2 to 4 months, allows the student to discover the relation between firm and client. From June to September.

Assistant internship

From 4 to 5 months, allows the student to know and live the everyday reality of a directive. From April to August, the classes end by the end of March.

Project development internship

From 4 to 6 months, allows the student to learn how to manage projects in a firm by offering solutions. From April to August, the classes end by the end of March.