This cutting-edge program prepares you for entrepreneurial success. Developed with insights from seasoned entrepreneurs, it provides a strong foundation, essential credentials, and practical tools to launch your own business or excel as a forward-thinking manager. You’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of modern business challenges and opportunities.
The program fosters an entrepreneurial and innovative mindset, sharpening your skills in management, communication, teamwork, creativity, and leadership. You’ll learn to identify opportunities, launch businesses, integrate AI-driven strategies, execute plans, advance projects, solve problems, and manage change effectively to overcome obstacles.
This specialization equips graduates to create startups, transform businesses, and grow enterprises. You will emerge as a successful entrepreneur, a contemporary manager, or a skilled consultant.
• Accreditations : ACBSP, IACBE, EDUQUA
• Degree awarded : Bachelor of Business Administration (with specialization in Entrepreneurship and Innovation)
• Credits : 130 credits us (184 ECTS)
• Length : 3 years
• 41 courses : including a wide range of subjects
• Format : on-campus
• Study mode : full time
• Small classes : 20 students
• Excellent ratio : professor / students : 1 / 6
• Language : English.
We also offer a bilingual program (EN-FR)
• 2 intakes per year in March and October.
This undergraduate curriculum focuses on your success and provides you with global perspectives, real-business knowledge and a modern vision of organisations. You will develop a global, sustainable and digital mindset.
The curriculum contains 37 core courses & 4 elective courses to choose from the specialisation.
Sample core courses
• Project Management
• Creativity & Innovation
• Business in the Digital Age
• Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders
• Technologies in Business
• AI for Business Success
Specialisation : elective courses
• Entrepreneurship & Bus. Dev.
• Leading Innovation and Change
• Driving Strategy with AI
• International Business
• International Marketing
• International Brand Strategy
Preparing for your career
Our high-impact learning approach prepares you to become a versatile professional, ready to adapt to the challenges of a rapidly evolving business landscape and society. You will graduate fully prepared to embrace top opportunities.
• Excellent record : A significant portion of IFM alumni graduates manage their own companies.
• Experiential learning : Our BBA blends case studies, group exercises, discussions, projects, simulations for real-world skills.
• Real business exposure : In-class learning is enriched by real-world insights through guest lectures and industry visits.
• Career & workshops : Modern workshops, tailored advice, industry exposure and networking opportunities.
• Jobs & Internships : We provide access to a variety of useful information : job ads, internship ads, job portals and guidance.
• Excellent place to work : Switzerland ranks 1st in Europe for start-ups and offers top career opportunities.
• Earn an accredited Bachelor’s degree that combines a solid education with a transformative life experience.
• Benefit from a cutting-edge curriculum enriched by insights from leading business professionals and industry experts.
• Gain comprehensive knowledge across diverse subjects, international perspectives, practical skills, and develop a mindset for success.
• Engage in real-world, hands-on learning activities that bring business concepts and tools to life.
• Grow personally in a supportive environment, achieve self-fulfillment, and gain a degree that broadens your outlook
• Graduate fully equipped to launch a successful career.
Marcel Arndt & Lea Puyo, IFM alumni class of 2014
Discover how two IFM graduates created and developed their innovative start-up. The project was established during their business creation course.
We pride ourselves on helping our students achieve their goals. IFM graduates are part of the new generation of leaders with a strong societal impact.
IFM students had the amazing opportunity to discover Fongit (Geneva Foundation for Technological Innovation). Fongit is the leading innovation incubator in Switzerland. It supports more than 100 start-ups and projects.
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