At fintech giant Wirecard, Veronica Melendez feels like she has found her dream job. It was something she’d set her mind on when enrolling in an MBA.

After a spectacular rise last year (up 19 ranks), emlyon business school’s International MBA has continued to advance, reaching 79th place. In France, it maintains its ranking as the country’s third best program of its type. "emlyon is amongst schools that see biggest improvement over 3 years", says the Financial Times.

The learning trip to Finland was a classic example of work hard and party harder. The cohort of IMBA 2020 not only fell in love with this small country, having its map in the form of a rabbit, but also with its people, culture and all the innovations it has to offer to the world.

Interview with Dr. Lauren Keating

Dr. Lauren Keating, Assistant Professor at emlyon business school, arrived in Lyon from Sydney, Australia in 2018. Since completing her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Management at UNSW Sydney, she has taught Organizational Behavior in the International MBA and MSc in Management programs, as well as Leadership Development for the European Triple Degree.

I never imagine myself surrounded by people of 31 different countries sharing experiences, knowledge, beliefs, feelings and of course, the willingness to learn from others and become the true meaning of international. Well, that is so far my experience as an International MBA student at emlyon business school.

Every year the International MBA cohort participate in a Hackathon which is designed to teach the participants to collaborate to create and deliver a quality product in a short amount of time. They work intensively on a particular problem over 2 days – this year the topic was to find an innovative service fitting the needs of poor elderly people in France, including a viable business model.

I am proud to be in the world's most diversified MBA class with more than 30 nationalities in our 63-member cohort. Ranked the top 50 business schools worldwide by Financial Times. Extremely hard work but very rewarding!

Here are some of the highlights from the year so far – and we still have 3 months to go!

Indian alumnus Sahil Chutani graduated from the International MBA at emlyon business school in 2018 and now is based in Barcelona Spain. Find out more about his story!

The beauty of the world lies in its diversity.

However diverse, people share the same values in Russia, Colombia, Guinea, or Thailand.

The only thing you have is time. Don't waste it.

The International MBA program at emlyon business school was officially awarded a Master’s grade by the French authorities in July.