EMBA & DBA

The EMBA and DBA programmes proposed at KEDGE are aimed at high potential executives and managers (more than 8 years of professional experience including 5 years in managerial functions) wishing to accelerate their career and handle new challenges in an environment with a strong international dimension.

Part time MBA offers a very individualized learning path, with a unique flexibility that allows you to fulfil career commitments, maintain a balanced life, and make your Executive MBA a truly transformational experience. Students are welcomed in an internationally recognised academic institution, in perfect synergy with the business world.

The DBA is the logical continuation for executives prepared to crown the achievements of their careers, wishing to go further in research work and in the acquisition of knowledge and skills, and will offer the highest academic distinction in management.

Executive MBA or DBA programmes: choose the one that suited to your professional ambitions!

Discover our programmes for executive :

the KEDGE Global MBA with class in Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux or Shanghai
the Euro Asia DBA with class in Paris, Marseille, Shanghai, Hong-Kong, Moscow, Bangkok

KEDGE Global MBA

Ranked #41 among the Top 100 Executive MBAs worldwide by the Financial Times in 2020, our programme is characterised by a highly-individualised learning path, a strong leadership component, and a focus on acquiring a global vision.

city: Marseille - Paris - Bordeaux - Shanghai -
Level: Executive MBA
Length: Part-time

Euro-Asia DBA

The most distinctive international DBA programme available on the market today

city: Paris - Shanghai - Hong-Kong - Moscow - Marseille - Bangkok
Level: Euro-Asia Doctorate in Business Administration - M.Sc. in Management Research
Length: Part-time

What is an Executive MBA ?

Taught in major business schools such as KEDGE Business School, the EMBA corresponds to "Executive Master of Business Administration". This high-level programme is specially designed for managing professional with a several of years of experience wishing to accelerate their career, acquire additional skills and grow up their network.

This master's-type degree is very focused on practice and experience. The participants work on case studies around the problems encountered in a professional environment. Modules are taught on a part-time basis so that students can continue to pursue their professional life.

What is a DBA ?

It happens that after an MBA, professionals wish to go further by pursuing real research work. The DBA, or Doctorate of Business Administration, is the version of the doctorate especially intended for professionals. As senior executives do not have the time to complete a traditional doctorate, a DBA allows them to work at the same time.

The DBA offers the opportunity to research students to reflect on management issues, while combining practice with theory. The courses focus on methodology, and the rest of the time is spent working on a thesis.

EMBA and DBA Executives share their experience

Testimony of Kang HEE DBA Kang Hee Chief Executive Officer ACN Korea

Over the past 2 decades, consistently at a senior-management level with major multinational companies (IBM, Tyco, ADT Caps, ACN), I have gathered substantial experience of business practices ‘in the real world’. When I decided to return to the world of academia, first to complete my Executive MBA and now my DBA, obviously these experiences were and have been tremendously beneficial to me. However, the opportunity to take a step back and to contextualize my acquired knowledge in the framework of business and management research and applied theory – particularly in the field of Organisational Behaviour – has helped me to diversify my business acumen and quite simply has given me more tools to use in my professional life as a manager, which I have no doubt are now and will continue to be valuable assets.

Testimony of Nino Sapina - MBA Nino Sapina Co-founder / CEO of Realcast - Class 2018

"For most of my career I have made video games, most notably I was the producer of Raving Rabbids. Later on I decided to build my own company, I wanted to be able to manage myself and my own business, to push it to the next level. The KEDGE Global Executive MBA gives me the opportunity to share my project and all that goes with it. Many things have evolved, I have met many people, the company has started to be known and my personal development has advanced. The EMBA is flexible with regards to my family life and fits perfectly with my professional schedule."

Testimony of Michel Capel - MBA Michel Capel Director of Information systems

" I started my career twenty-four years ago with a master in IT. After the University, I quickly found a job in a medical device company, where I had for couple of years some technical roles. Quickly after, I moved into management position. Last June, I decided to leave that company and after couple months of deep reflection, I started to define what I didn't want to do anymore and what I was expecting for my second part of career. I started the Executive MBA program for two reasons. The first one, I wanted to be out of my comfort zone and wanted to strengthen some of my hard and soft skills with the goal, at some point in time, to have a professional experience abroad. The second reason would be, eventually, to start my own company at some point in time. With this MBA programme, I add an opportunity to meet with great teachers and professors but also fantastic people from different and various background in various countries. This was a great experience so far after one year working with them, having fun with them, but also sometimes having difficult moment, because this journey is not like an easy one. If like me, you have a reflection of what your career will look like in the future. Do not hesitate. I strongly recommend you subscribe on an Executive MBA program and you will not be disappointed."

Testimony of Hasna Benabbou - MBA Hasna Banabbou Energy support Engineer - Suez

"Four years ago, I decided to pick up my career and started working at Suez. I'm at the procurement department, I operationally manage 100 million euros portfolio of energy expenditure. I am in a team of four people and we manage yearly up to 18 thousand contracts. A year and half ago, I decided to do an Executive MBA. After meeting the team in Paris, KEDGE became the obvious choice.

The two main reasons I have decided to do the KEDGE Executive MBA is…One, for my personal growth. I've been a year now to the program and I get the chance to improve my soft skills, my communication negotiation and put in leadership into practice. The second reason is to acquire new competencies, that I didn't get the chance to get while I was in an engineering school. For example, finance and also design thinking that I got the chance to do in Portland State University. I also did the digital China in Shanghai.

I have met very interesting people and very skilled people that helped me improve my soft and hard skills. The whole journey has been a very transformational experience. I've got the chance to meet brilliant mind. If you are hesitating to embark in this new journey, just don't!"

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