“The program is helping me to refresh many important notions like strategy, marketing, economics but in a very practical way through many study cases. This helps in understanding how to better apprehend things in a fast moving business-world. Concerning the specialisations, I chose Finance and Entrepreneurship. The courses really give me strong tools and make me feel more confident professionally.”
"Several factors came in to play when deciding on a school. The price-to-quality ratio, the size of the cohort (larger size means more competition in job searching), the diversity of the cohort, the location, and the practicality of the onboarding were all important. emlyon, with its smaller but diverse class, became an easy choice regarding those factors and was the only school I applied to."
The results of the Poets & Quants International MBA world ranking were revealed at the end of December. emlyon business school rose from rank 39 to 33, moving up 6 spots on the overall ranking.
Engineering PhD Hortense Kirisli decided an MBA was the way to push her career as a software developer to the next level.
The MBA at Emlyon Business School gave Nhung access to the French job market Nhung Hoang knew she'd made a big decision when with her husband she decided to to start a new life in France, leaving behind a job in the Netherlands and starting fresh.
“I hadn’t even officially finished my MBA before I moved to Geneva to start at ISO. emlyon is very insistent that you start applying for jobs early. They have a whole team to help you launch your career. They’re very good at it and they’re always trying to improve, particularly in how they help internationals get their careers started." Class of 2017 - 2018
“When you think to go abroad and to pursue an MBA in an international school, you’re looking for as many international encounters as you can have, in order to maximize your network. At emlyon we had a lot of opportunities to go abroad on field trips and even work with international companies during our Entrepreneurial Leadership Project.”
International MBA Class of 2017-2018
“One of the things that made emlyon stand out among top international business schools is that they really focus on entrepreneurship. They have their own incubation center in the school—you can actually go there and talk to people if you want to start [your] own business.”
Class of 2017-2018
"I was working as a data analyst at a startup back in India, and I found that it’s really essential nowadays to actually equip yourself with all the business tools. That was my motivation because that is what is going to help fulfil my future aspirations - an MBA is essential to give you a broader picture. emlyon has helped me so much. I’m an Indian who studied in France who’s now working in Germany"
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.