Bachelor of Science in Global Management

A Bachelor of Science

The Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Global Management from Toulouse School of Management is a full-time on-campus three-year programme for a total of 180 ECTS, with one intake each year in the fall. It is taught entirely in English and boasts small class sizes to provide students with individual support thanks to innovative approaches to teaching such as blended and flipped learning.

This degree is designed to train young professionals to critically assess different contexts and situations of global business and of embrace cultural diversity.

This non-specialized undergraduate global business degree combines rigorous academic foundations in all fields of management with practical insights from the professional world. Students learn the fundamentals of management science, international institutions, and comparative political systems. They will also learn the basis of accounting, finance, marketing, and business economics. Through an emphasis on innovation, project management, geopolitics, governance, and legal environment, students will also gain an understanding of entrepreneurship and sustainable development.

To encourage students to learn inside the classroom and outside the classroom, they are expected to spend either one semester or one year abroad in one of TSM’s partner universities over the three years in the BSc programme.

After the Bachelor's, students can continue towards TSM Master’s programs or elsewhere in the world.

BSc at a glance

• Language: English
• Duration: 6 semesters (3 years) including between 1 and 2 semesters abroad
• Start date: September
• Credits: 180 ECTS
• Degree Awarded: Bachelor of Science in Global Management

Overview

• First year: students will attend courses introducing fundamentals of management science, international institutions, and comparative political systems. Furthermore, students will take fundamental courses in accounting, finance, marketing, and business economics for a successful academic path. Watch this video for more information
• Second year: the emphasis shifts to alternative perspectives on and specific contexts of innovation, project management, geopolitics, governance, and legal environment. This will allow students to gain an understanding of entrepreneurship and sustainable development.
• Third year: students dig further into theoretical models and analytical skills to allow them to refine their critical thinking ability. Watch this video for more information

Examples of Courses

• Management Science

The main purpose of this course is to cover many approaches to solving business problems from a managerial point of view. It also puts a solid emphasis on students operating and functioning as if they were in organizations and offers analytical frameworks that will help them increase their effectiveness and skill in observing, understanding and managing behavior in organizations. The course will selectively survey ideas and frameworks from different organizational theories and explore their implications for managerial practice.

• Business Economics

Economics provides a useful set of tools for analysing the world and aiding decision-making by businesses and governments. This module aims to give students an overview of several of these tools and of the insights that can be obtained with them. We will particularly focus on the tools most relevant to businesses. Most of the lectures are on microeconomic topics, looking at the actions of firms and of individuals. However, the module also covers macroeconomic problems and policies, looking at the economy as a whole. This is followed by an exposition of international economic issues. This course also aims to introduce the students to environmental economics. Effort will be made to relate the course materials to current economic issues and problems relevant to managers. In order to provide a useful treatment of these topics it is necessary to stress fundamentals and to explore the limitations associated with the assumptions of economic models.

• International Training Project Program

Over the 3 years of the BSc in Global Management students have to build their professional project to complete internships, create their own business or apply to a master degree. The purpose of this course is to provide the student with the necessary preliminary information and skills to display both professional and ethical attitudes. In order to provide a useful treatment of these topics, students will attend several seminars and workshops.

• Marketing

The marketing function has undergone a significant evolution from marketing understood as distribution in production-oriented firms to a customer-centric, value-driven, and stakeholder-oriented management concept. This introductory marketing course aims at preparing (future) marketers to proactively deal with these challenges by discussing the key concepts and principles in marketing. To achieve the course’s learning goals, the learning experience combines self-paced video lessons, interactive live face-to-face sessions, and reflective analysis of learning outcomes.

• Learn whatever you want, wherever you want

The course is positioned in the first year of the BSc in Global Management. The knowledge acquired in this module will help students to build a relevant understanding of a topic and critically engage with ethical, responsible, and sustainable issues link to the topic. The module will also provide students the ability to use their digital skills during the second and third year of the BSc.