Ivey MSc with CEMS - Program Content

 

International Business Foundation Courses

The International Business Foundation Courses are required courses for all Ivey MSc students. They provide you with foundational knowledge and skills in international management. The courses include Exploring Best Practices, Internationalization Process, Applied Business Statistics, International Project Leadership, Global Strategy and Cross-Cultural Management.

 

Spring Term

 

Summer Term

 

Fall Term (CEMS Term 1)

 

Spring Term (CEMS Term 2)

 

Elective Courses

The International Foundation Courses are rounded out with electives of your choice in each semester. These electives allow you to deepen your knowledge in a specific area of international management. You will select many of these electives from the offerings at your exchange school.

 

Fall Term (CEMS Term 1)

 

Spring Term (CEMS Term 2)

 

Block Seminar

For Ivey MSc/MIM students the first term will kick off with a week-long, intensive seminar called the Block Seminar. The Block Seminar is academically and culturally intensive and the experience is the ideal starting point into the program. Seminars are managed by interdisciplinary, inter-university teacher teams and provide the opportunity to debate and discuss innovative management topics from different cultural perspectives. There is also an important social aspect to the Block Seminars as this may be the first opportunity for incoming CEMS students to meet their new classmates.

 

Skills Seminars

The practical and applied focus of CEMS is exemplified by the skills seminars. These shorter seminars are held throughout the terms and often in cooperation with CEMS corporate partners.

 

International Exchange

Ivey students originate from a wide range of countries, but it is the CEMS partner school network that really exposes you to the world of international business. As a CEMS student, you are required to spend a minimum of one term at a CEMS partner school. If you speak two languages, you will spend two terms at CEMS partner schools. If you speak three languages, you will spend either one or two terms at CEMS partner schools.

 

CEMS Business Project

Challenge yourself and apply your skills and knowledge by tackling a real case for a real international company. Student teams work on the business project during term three. The project is supervised and evaluated by both the company and a faculty advisor.

 

International Practicum

Building on your foundation courses in your first term at Ivey, the Ivey MSc takes you through a 10 week Social Enterprise and Micro-Finance Program. In partnership with Global Business Brigades, you engage in a 3-stage learning process from training and learning about the local culture and business environment; to field work interfacing with borrowers and clients in business consulting, technical support and capacity building roles; followed by leading workshops and mentoring other volunteers. Your practicum experience equips you with strong project management skills, strategy consulting skills, client-facing interaction and an understanding of business in a greater international context; preparing you to launch your international business career. This practicum is part of the requirements to needed to receive the CEMS MIM.

 

Language Requirements

CEMS students are required to be fluent in a minimum of two languages. English is mandatory. Students must successfully complete both written and oral tests in business communication in foreign languages to obtain the CEMS designation.