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The ‘Majeure’ IB offers students access to 3 international master-level programs:

• the Double Degree

• the CEMS MIM (joint degree with HEC)

• the Master Exchange Program (MEP)

Details of the teaching objectives and academic content of each of these programs are detailed in separate presentations.

The ‘Majeure’ International Business

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The ‘Majeure’ IB:

• aims at preparing students for international management careers

• runs over a period of one full academic year

• includes a semester on the HEC campus and a semester abroad at one of the partner schools, or the whole year at the partner school in the case of a double degree

• includes the completion of a Master Thesis with an international dimension

The ‘Majeure’ International Business

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NEW : you will have the chance to submit 5 preferences from all the available destinations and the three programs altogether. You therefore have the opportunity to maximize your chances of being selected for a specific destination or region that you are particularly interested in OR simply focus on a single program/network. For example:

- Choice 1: CEMS LSE- Choice 2: CEMS NUS, Singapore- Choice 3: MEP at Tsinghua- Choice 4: CEMS FGV, Brazil- Choice 5: Double Degree FGV, Brazil: MPGI

The ‘Majeure’ International Business

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Selection Process

Selection for the ‘Majeure’ is based on:- your GPA of your Master 1 grades at HEC, - your foreign language skills (apart from French and English),- your internships/exchange programs abroad- the grade of your interview.

English requirements for application

The ‘Majeure’ International Business

TOEFL (100/250/600) or IELTS (7.0) or a highschool/university degree in English.

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The ‘Majeure’ International Business

Selection timetable:

– January 28th, 2011: Reception of your application by the International Office either personally handed out or sent by post/DHL).

– January 28th to February 1st, 2011: Choice of ‘Majeure’

– February 8th – 11th, 2011: Interviews: on campus or by telephone (online registration)

– March 1st, 2011: Publication of results

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Double Degree

Double Degree offer:

Brazil: Fundaçao Getulio Vargas, Sao Paolo (3 seats*)

Europe: Bocconi, Milan (8 seats) - ESADE, Barcelona (3 seats) - RSM, Rotterdam School of Management (1 seat) - University of St Gallen (4 seats*)

India: IIM Ahmedabad (3 seats*)

Russia: Graduate School of Business, St Petersburg (2 seats*)

United States: MIT - Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (up to 5 seats*)

* GMAT required

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MIT – Sloan School of Management

• What is specific to this Double Degree: It is offered to a pre-selected number of HEC students both from

MBA and MSc Program (Grande Ecole degree). Final selection is done by MIT. You will have to pay Sloan tuition fees

• Online Application through the MIT website.

• HEC students are responsible for getting their GMAT score as well as the 3 recommendation letters as indicated by MIT ready in time for the MIT application deadline.

• You must submit your complete application to Iris Ritter by January 20th for pre-selection.

MIT Final Application deadline is January 31st, 2011

MEP Program – ‘Majeure’ IB

• 40 places offered

• 1 academic exchange abroad at one of a partner schools (30 ECTS)

• 1 certificate (15 ECTS)

• 1 research paper (20 ECTS)

• OPTIONAL : Possible alternative to the certificate on campus : the student may take a 3 month-internship in the country where he was on exchange.

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Country Destinations Total ‘Majeure’ IB MEP Gap Year

16 NORTH AMERICA      

Canada Queens School of Business 4 2 2

United States

Babson College 4 4  

  Indiana Kelley School of Business 2 2  

  Minnesota 2 2  

 University of California at Los Angeles (Anderson School)

2 2  

 University of Duke, Fuqua School

of Business 2 2  

6 SOUTH AMERICA      

Argentina University Torcuato Di Tella 2 1 1

ChilePontificia Universidad Catolica de

Chile 2 1 1

Mexico ITAM 2 1 1

MEP Program Offer

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Country Destinations Total ‘Majeure’ IBMEP

Gap Year

26 ASIA      

China Tsinghua University, Pékin 4 3 1

South Korea

Seoul National University 2   2

India IIM Ahmedabad 4 2 2

  IIM Bangalore 4 2 2

Japan University of Todai, Tokyo 5 3 2

 University of Hitotsubachi,

Tokyo¹2   2

PhilippinesAsian Institute of

Management1 1  

Taiwan National Taiwan University 4 3 1

MEP Program Offer

1) Specific conditions for this exchange: see 'HEC in Japan'

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Country Destinations Total   Majeure IBMEP

Gap Year 

13 EUROPE

GermanyTU München 3 1 2

Mannheim 2 1 1

The Netherlands Erasmus University Rotterdam 1   1

Russia St Petersburg State University 3 1 2

Sweden Stockholm School of Economics 2   2

Turkey Bogazici, Istanbul 2   2

7 MIDDLE EAST      

Israël 

The Israel Institute of Technology, Technion, Haifa

2 2  

Tel Aviv University 1   1

KuwaitKuwait University, College of

Business Administration2 1 1

South Africa Wits 2 1 1

3 OCEANIA      

Australia University of Melbourne 2 3 2 1

  Total number of seats 71 40 31

MEP Program Offer

2) TOEFL IBT requested

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MEP Program - Gap Year

31 places offered for an exchange

abroad during Gap-Year

Program offered to Master 1 students

- The MEP Program offers you to combine an academic experience abroad during gap-year with the possibility to apply for a ‘Majeure’ on campus for your M2 year (Specialization Year)

– This opportunity is offered in addition to your studies at HEC (free course choice, no credits transfered to HEC for your Master degree)

– Same selection requirements and application deadlines as for the Majeure International Business

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HEC Japan experience!

Spend your gap year in Tokyo!

2 different internships:

– 6 months at Calyon in Tokyo

– 6 months as a personal assistant to a Senator in the Parliament in Tokyo

Internship + 1 year at Hitotsubashi University

Your studies at Hitotsubashi require a full-year immersion in Japanese language and culture. Before starting the academic year in April, you will be required to do an internship in Japan.

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C O N T A C T S

For the Double Degree program: Iris RITTER – ritter@hec.fr

For CEMS-MIM: Loli BRETON – breton@hec.fr & Carina FERREIRA – ferreirac@hec.fr

For the Master Exchange Program (IB & Gap-Year): Nadia AFFRI – affri@hec.frr

Website: https://intranet.hec.fr/portal/site/grandecolev2/

(‘Programme Internationaux’ section)