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KEDGE Executive MBA - Part time MBA

A dedicated programme for executives with over 5 years of managerial experience

Executive

#24 Worldwide

by Financial Times Ranking 2025

#6 France

by Financial Times Ranking 2025

Admission level

From Bachelor Degree + 5 years of managerial experience

Campus

MarseilleParisBordeauxShanghai

Degree

Executive MBA

Format

Work Study

Intake

Spring 26 - Nov.26 - Dec. 26 (Shanghai)

Language

English

#24 Worldwide

by Financial Times Ranking 2025

#6 France

by Financial Times Ranking 2025

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The KEDGE Executive MBA : renew your vision for business

KEDGE’s Executive MBA is a leading degree in business administration, designed for high-potential executives seeking to strengthen their ability to lead transformation in an ever-changing environment.

Delivered over 18 months in a part-time format, the programme is built on a strong academic foundation and an action-oriented learning approach. It combines strategic business expertise, experiential learning and transformational leadership to develop a global perspective, create value and generate lasting impact.

The programme includes immersive seminars, 16 hours of individual coaching and a Certificate in Artificial Intelligence. Taught entirely in English, it is offered in Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille and Shanghai (in partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University).

Christophe GARONNE

Executive MBA Program Director

KEDGE Executive MBA: a strategic transformation of leadership

In a world in constant flux, marked by uncertainty and complexity, advancing in one’s career requires far more than acquiring new skills: it calls for a profound transformation in one’s leadership posture.

Today’s leaders must be able to think like entrepreneurs, rely on rigorous scientific approaches, and articulate a clear vision in rapidly evolving environments.

This is precisely the ambition of the KEDGE Executive MBA.

Ranked among the world’s best Executive MBAs by the Financial Times in 2025 and delivered by a triple-accredited institution (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA), the program meets the highest international standards.

We have designed a demanding program grounded in a science-based approach, combining academic research excellence with practical business applications. Our objective is to equip you with the tools to structure your thinking, strengthen your decision-making capabilities, and lead increasingly strategic challenges.

Beyond knowledge acquisition, the program drives deep transformation: you will develop your leadership, strengthen your executive presence, and increase your impact in your role.

Through a structured and experiential journey, you will consolidate your management fundamentals while enhancing your ability to act with clarity and effectiveness. You will learn to step back, make sound decisions in complex environments, and turn your ambitions into tangible results.

The program also integrates major technological transformations, notably through a certificate in artificial intelligence, enabling you to understand their implications and leverage them as strategic drivers.

More than a degree, the KEDGE Executive MBA is a selective and demanding experience, designed for professionals who seek to accelerate their careers while fundamentally transforming the way they think, decide, and act.

Programme's Labels : Bienvenue en France AMBA AACSB EQUIS France Compétences

Why choose our Executive MBA program ?

  • Our modules educate and train inspired leaders to have positive impacts on their environment in the years to come.
  • We care for and provide support to our participants
  • The sustainable approach is considered as a miminum across all seminars and courses
  • The program values eco-economic decoupling
  • Live innovative & experiential seminars

There are, of course, many ways to measure ROI:

  • The Financial Times international EMBA Ranking, for example, places KEDGE Executive MBA program among the best worldwide for salary increases. 
  • 88% of students have experienced personal change within two years of the end of the programme, 66% within a year.
  • 76% have changed position between the start and the end of the programme.

However, there are many other key areas to value how your degree will help your development.

  • Understanding and knowledge grow quickly and you will be able to immediately apply what you have learned to your daily professional activities.  You are thus able to add greater value in your work for your company or personal business almost immediately.
  • Stronger leadership capabilities, increased confidence, personal and professional benchmarking are all objectives of your KEDGE’s experience.
  • Value also comes from your increased capacity to find innovative solutions and manage complex change. Gaining business acumen, increasing global connections, having the capacity for self-reflection as well as taking a “step back”…. put you at a truly Executive C-level.

The KEDGE part time Executive MBA commits to helping you achieve in all of these areas to maximise your EMBA investment.

Within the MBA Development Programme, up to 15 hours of individual and collective coaching sessions with executive coaches to provide permanent support and create the conditions to succeed in your training, and ensure that the programme serves your career project.

We increase your self-confidence and open-mindedness through practical business cases and multi-cultural teamwork. As per the last survey, 97% of our students increased or partially increased their self-confidence in their professional life.

Meeting and working with international students, interacting with a global Faculty, you will benefit from international major Executive MBA partnerships.

KEDGE’s campuses abroad give the school an impressive reach in terms of faculty, students, global network, research and image. KEDGE's international exposure and programs overseas demonstrate its capacity to train executives with a trans-national ambition and a wide-ranging background. It also provides unique geostrategic insights from local actors (through our Chinese and African campuses for example).

KEDGE established its first partnership in China with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and is the only French part-time MBA program to be formally recognized by the Chinese government.

It enables our participants to interact both professionally and socially with participants from different cultures. Some seminars are delivered with European-based and Chinese-based cohorts all together online. We aim to motivate KEDGE cohorts to mix and network. Likewise, French-based Executive MBA participants visit their Chinese peers for another core course in Shanghai.

KEDGE has initiated alliances with other universities and Executive MBAs in Europe: Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in Germany and SDA Bocconi School of Management in Italy.

  • Sharing your work experience and learning with others from the MBA community (alumni, participants), who come from many different sectors, allows your company or organisation to extend its network and find new business partners.
  • Graduates can rely on a strong network of over 1800 Alumni in many countries, including 800 in China.
  • Faculty and lecturers are all active in the corporate world and bring with them their connections and experiences.
  • Your MBA peers are international in scope and represent the best possible opportunity to explore and connect with other business environments.
  • International seminars take you out into new business worlds.

The Lifelong “Refresh Your Skills” Programme is part of KEDGE Business School promises: A unique advantage among part time Executive MBA programmes, KEDGE offers its alumni free access to study one MBA course per year for life to keep their business acumen up-to-date.

This opportunity, added to regular conferences and social events, helps you maintain and expand your professional network well after graduation.

Everyone stands to benefit. The Global Executive MBA is a genuine investment to: 

  • Enhance skills & capacities: The programme provides immediate benefits as participants apply what they have learned from the earliest moments of the programme.
  • Develop potential: Students learn to apply a more holistic and global approach to business, as well as developing an entrepreneurial attitude and a general increase in output and performance.
  • Reinforce loyalty & motivation: Supporting your staff is a clear means of rewarding, developing and retaining key talent.
  • Accomplish corporate objectives and develop international opportunities.

KEDGE knows that your part time MBA degree is really about what you want to achieve. And we know that a strong international brand is important to you.

Our MBA faculty, alumni and participants, accomplished executives and thought-leaders, are continuously traveling out onto new parts of the globe. They are unique, innovative and in-tune with regional practices and diversity and represent the strongest possible ambassadors of our brand.

You will be an Ambassador for your programme and later on as an Alumnus, for your degree programme and your school.

KEDGE is part of an international network of corporate and academic partners. All of whom are reputable, internationally known, and all share the same standards of excellence.

Having earned triple-crown accreditation, KEDGE has also achieved full recognition by both the French and Chinese Ministry of Education.  Our brand is recognised worldwide.  

One of the key strengths of the KEDGE Executive MBA is its schedule designed for busy professionals. The programme allows managers and executives to continue developing their skills without putting their careers on hold, thanks to a structure of approximately three days of classes per month.

This organisation offers real flexibility, helping participants balance their professional responsibilities, personal life and learning journey, while immediately applying new insights in their workplace.

Entry to this part time Executive MBA is for you…

  • Raising awareness and train inspired leaders towards having positive impacts on their environment; you want to bring a positive contribution in your company and society.
  • A deeper understanding and integration of new regulatory frameworks coming into force shows through all seminars and programmes.
  • Across the seminars and programme curriculum we highlight sustainable finance issues and how to implement a sustainable perspective.
  • In economics and environmentalism, decoupling happens when an economy is able to grow without causing more environmental pressure or damage, taking into account geostrategic stakes:  this is at the heart of each module of the programme.
  • Dive into innovative experiential seminars.

… If you want to:

  • Accelerate your career, become a key player and a driving force in your company
  • Develop beyond your technical expertise into a general management position with cross-functional and sustainable perspectives
  • Meet new people, share and enrich your vision with other executives and create a solid global network

… If you believe you need to:

  • Impact your ecosystem and become an effective leader driving innovative solutions for a sustainable business
  • Acquire knowledge and competencies in global business, accounting & finance that make a positive contribution to the triple bottom line
  • Increase your self-confidence and develop your leadership skills to drive a resilient organisation

This programme offers to high potential executives a prestigious Master of Business Administration degree from a top-level internationally recognised academic institution, in perfect synergy with the business world.

Our objective is to equip executives with the competencies, cultural sensitivity and strategic vision they need to effectively deal with the ecological, inclusivity and digital challenges in today’s global economy.

Time has come for you to influence the future: join the next KEDGE Executive MBA class!

Our Executive MBA offers high-potential executives a prestigious Master of Business Administration delivered by an internationally recognised business school, in perfect synergy with the business world. It is delivered in Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille and Shanghai. 

Our goal: to equip managers with the skills, cultural awareness and strategic vision they need to effectively meet the challenges of today's global economy.

Ranked 24th EMBA in the world's Top 100 (6th in France) by the Financial Times 2025, with three main campuses and innovative immersive seminars in France and abroad, our Executive MBA programme is characterised by a strong leadership component, an emphasis on acquiring a global and geostrategic vision, and working to build resilient organisational models.

Our vision is to build a unique learning community across continents, where you will have access to our internationally renowned faculty and a unique global network of 90,000 alumni.