This innovative program equips you for entrepreneurial success. Developed with insights from experienced entrepreneurs, this degree offers a robust foundation, essential credentials, and practical tools for starting your own business and becoming a forward-thinking manager. You will gain a deep understanding of contemporary business challenges and opportunities.
The program fosters an entrepreneurial and inventive mindset, enhancing skills in management, communication, teamwork, creativity, and leadership. You will be skilled in launching businesses, advancing projects, identifying opportunities, executing strategies, resolving problems, and managing change to overcome daily obstacles.
This specialization prepares graduates to create startups, transform businesses, and grow enterprises. You will emerge as a successful entrepreneur, a contemporary manager, or a skilled consultant.
Faculty : You will learn from an international faculty who are industry experts, entrepreneurs and senior managers selected from around the world to ensure educational excellence.
• Accreditations : ACBSP, IACBE, EDUQUA
• Degree awarded : Bachelor of Business Administration (with specialisation in Entrepreneurship and Innovation)
• Credits : 126 credits us (180 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)
• BBA students : 70% International & 30% local &, 70% speak at least 2 languages
• 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
• Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders
• Business Strategy
• Digital Business
Specialisation : elective courses
• Entrepreneurship & Bus. Dev.
• Leading Innovation and Change
• Essentials of AI for Business
• Digital Business Finance
• International Business
• International Marketing
Preparing for your career
Our distinctive approach enhances your skills and mindset. It helps you to become a professional who will easily adapt to the challenges of the business world. You will be ready to embrace top opportunities.
• Excellent record : 90% of BBA graduates find a job or pursue advanced degree studies within 6 months after graduation.
• Experiential learning : Our Bachelor degree is interactive and experiential, using a combination of case studies, group exercises, discussions, project work and business simulations. The curriculum gives you real-life business skills.
• Real business exposure : The in-class experience is combined with an exposure to real business operations through guest speaker sessions, industry and company visits. These events introduce you to numerous career opportunities.
• Career & workshops : Modern career workshops, one-to-one counselling sessions, real business exposure and networking opportunities help create career opportunities for you.
• 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.
• Pursue an accredited Bachelor’s degree that offers both a solid education and a transformative life experience.
• Engage with a contemporary curriculum, recently enhanced by insights from leading business professionals and industry specialists.
• Acquire unparalleled knowledge covering a broad spectrum of subjects, inter-national perspectives, practical skills, and cultivate a mindset geared for success.
• Experience learning through real-world, hands-on activities that bring business concepts and tools to life in the classroom.
• Develop personally in a nurturing environment, achieve remarkable self-fulfill-ment, and earn a degree that changes your outlook.
• Emerge fully equipped for the professional world, ready to kick-start your 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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