One-Year Master of Business Administration (MBA)

The American Graduate School of Business and Economics at AGS offers a one-year M.B.A. in Paris, taught in English and accredited in the US.

This program is open to experienced professionals wishing to advance their careers as well as to outstanding recent graduates.

The MBA program at AGS provides students with the skills needed for successful careers in international business, government or international organizations.

Focus

The MBA program at AGS focuses on the challenges of the international marketplace:

It addresses the most contemporaneous questions posed by globalization.
It prepares students to act in and interact with multi-cultural environments.

The MBA program at AGS is geared towards career building:

It adopts a hands-on approach, including visits and meetings with executives of the most successful international corporations.
It teaches the best and most recent techniques of management, planning and decision-making, and studies major international corporations as illustrative models.

The MBA program at AGS teaches responsible decision-making:

It sensitizes students to the challenges of sustainable development, social solidarity and ethical business.

The MBA program at AGS takes advantage of its location in Paris, at the heart of the European Union:

EU economics and business policy makers participate in the program as guest speakers.
Students have the opportunity to go on optional visits to the EU Commission in Brussels and meet with EU staff.
The European setting of the program makes it possible for students to better apprehend the notion of Europe as a political, economic and social entity.

Organization

The MBA at AGS is a one-year program featuring an comprehensive curriculum taught on an intensive basis.

It follows a modular model. It includes ten courses, each taught over one month, with classroom time being on evenings and weekends in order to accomodate the constraints of working professionals. Each course consists of:

• 36 hours of face to face lectures taught over two weekends in order to accommodate working professionals' schedules

• Four days of office hours for possible tutoring and advising by the course instructor

• An online course complement through a blackboard platform, with resource materials to prepare and support lectures as well as close online tutoring by the course instructor himself.

Classes are small allowing for a supportive environment where professors provide personal attention to each student.

One course is conducted every month (except August and September) over a ten-day period, according to the following schedule format.

Curriculum

All courses are required

• BA680: International Finance

• BA 600: Leadership for Effective Organizations

• BA530: Global Issues of Social Responsibility and Law

• BA 640: Operations and Technology

• BA560: Managing the Global Workforce

• BA620: Managerial Economics

• BA580: Shareholder Value Management

• BA540: Multinational Marketing

• BA670D: International Experience

• BA695: Global Strategic Management (capstone course)

See course descriptions