KEDGE Global MBA

Designed for busy professionals, our programme offers you a unique flexibility that allows you to fulfil career commitments, maintain a balanced life, and make your EMBA a truly transformational experience.

Choose the most convenient:

• Campuses: Paris, Marseille or Shanghai
• Course duration: 18 months to 4 years
• Specialisation majors: 9 Majors
• International Business Seminars: 12 destinations

Adapt throughout your path, campus, major, international seminars (e.g.: postponing a course when necessary)

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

An international ranking such as the Financial Times EMBA Ranking 2016, for example, places the Kedge Global MBA at

·       #1 worldwide for salary increase and #5 worldwide for Career Progress (3 years after graduation) In fact, 46% of the class experienced increased compensation, greater management responsibility or a promotion before graduation.

Within this measure, however, are many other key areas of value that your Kedge MBA will help you to develop.

·       Skills and knowledge grow quickly and you will be able to immediately apply what you’ve learned to your daily professional activities.  You are thus able to add greater value to your company or personal business almost immediately.

·       Stronger leadership capabilities, increased confidence, personal and professional benchmarking are all objectives EMBA’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 level.

The Kedge Global MBA commits itself fully to helping you achieve in all of these areas to maximize your EMBA investment.

Having chosen a main campus, you can study and join EMBA colleagues on 3 different campuses:

Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux* or Shanghai.

* Bordeaux: for the Wine & Spirits Major, the Supply Chain Major and Electives only.

You meet your classmates on many occasions: during the international business seminars, Majors & elective modules, business simulations, and ‘get together weeks’.

These collaborative occasions offer participants the chance to create a real community.

Discover our permanent campuses.

Meeting and working with international participants, interacting with a global Faculty, benefit from international major EMBA partnerships.

“The international visit component of the Kedge Executive MBA is one of the strongest and most substantial elements of this kind that accreditors have observed while assessing part time programmes.” AMBA Global MBA last assessment report.

Not only has Kedge established a premier campus in China (Shanghai), in partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and is the only French MBA to be formally recognized by the Chinese Government, but we also enjoy long-term partnerships with 15 leading international Business Schools.

Graduates can rely on a strong network of over 1,300 Alumni worldwide, including 800 in China.

Kedge knows that your MBA 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 though-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.

·       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 Ministries of Education.  Our brand is recognized worldwide.

Within the MBA Development Programme, up to 18 hours of individual confidential coaching sessions with Executive coaches provide permanent support and accompaniment, enabling you to create the conditions to succeed in your MBA and ensuring that the programme serves the development of your career objectives.

Recent comments from MBA graduates about leadership transformation:

 - “We are now used to handling complex, unfamiliar issues, requiring us to integrate cross-disciplinary knowledge, lead people and ideas.”

- “I gained self-awareness and confidence and improved my abilities to bring out the best in others with stronger leadership skills.”

Coaching sessions, regular assessments, personal roadbook, development project, workshops...

Sharing your MBA experience with others from the MBA community (alumni, participants), who come from many different sectors, allows your company to extend its network and find new business partners.

Faculty and lecturers are all active in the corporate world and bring with them their connections and experiences.

Your MBA colleagues are international in scope and represent an immense opportunity to explore and connect with other business environments.

International Seminars take you out into new business worlds.

At Kedge, every one inspires being more global.

The Lifelong “Refresh Your Skills” Programme: A unique advantage among MBA programmes, KEDGE BS offers its MBA alumni free access to one MBA course per year for life!

Keep your business acumen up-to-date and maintain your professional network well after graduation.

Everyone stands to benefit. The Global EMBA 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: Participants acquire a more holistic and global approach to business, as well as an entrepreneurial attitude and a general increase in output and performance.

Reinforce loyalty & motivation: Supporting your manager is a clear means of rewarding, developing and retaining key talent.

Accomplishing corporate objectives and develop international opportunities.

• Complete knowledge in array of business areas
• Latest information
• New tools

• Executive demeanor
• Confidence
• Use of logistical frameworks
• Presentation skills
• Retrospect
• Strategic thinking

• Leading yourself and others
• Creating vision
• Fostering motivation & creativity
• Strategic thinking
• Accurate decision-making

• Daily global orientation
• World-class networks
• International best-practices

• Critical thinking
• Awareness of CSR concerns
• Entrepreneurial thinking
• Taking calculated risk
• Efficiency and adaptability in a global business world

• Managing your own career
• Developing new networks
• Increasing opportunities for yourself