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An MBA in Paris or an MBA in Brussels? Solvay, ENPC Launch Joint Program: MBA News main image

Two European business schools have formed an alliance, the first result of which will be a joint MBA in Paris and Brussels named the Solvay-Ecole des Ponts MBA.

The Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (SBS-EM), and the Ecole des Ponts Paris, more commonly known as ENPC MBA Paris, will accept the first students to their joint program in September 2013, who will study their MBA in Brussels and Paris.

The academic directors of the two schools have designed a program "oriented towards innovation and business creation," according to the two business schools. "Both schools will make use of their own specialised centres in this regard: the Design Thinking Centre at the Ecole des Ponts [ENPC MBA Paris] and the Entrepreneurship Centre at SBS-EM."

An MBA in Brussels and Paris

The full-time version of the joint MBA program will be split into three sections, each lasting for five months. As a result, students will spend five months studying their MBA in Brussels, five months studying their MBA in Paris, and five months on an internship, drawing up a business plan or performing consultancy activities.

"ENPC is one of the world's biggest engineering schools training managers and leaders for better businesses," explains Tawfik Jelassi, dean of the ENPC Paris MBA. "SBS-EM trains its students in management while providing them with a strong scientific background. So our partnership is legitimate and credible from the very outset as we are aiming to expose course participants to technology."

"We are combining the greatest strengths of our MBA programmes to create a full-time, and later a part-time, programme," says Bruno van Pottelsberghe, dean of SBS-EM. "What are these strengths? The quality of our programmes is recognised internationally, they have EQUIS and AMBA accreditation and they are offered by institutions that enjoy considerable prestige in their own countries. Besides, our joint MBA will have the added bonus of being located in Paris, one of Europe's main business centres, and Brussels, the capital of Europe."

As well as being taught the MBA in Brussels and Paris, students will also be able to take advantage of study trips and classes in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Casablanca.

Course fees have been announced as €32,000 for the full-time course, or €40,000 for a flexible format spread over two to three years.