Master in Management (Programme Grande École)

EM Normandie Business School’s Master in Management (Programme Grande École) is a triple-accredited French MiM, ranked 85th in the Financial Times Masters in Management, with fully English-taught tracks and up to 18 months of internships built into the degree.¹ ²

Overview

EM Normandie is one of France’s recognised grandes écoles de management, holding the triple-crown accreditation — EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB — and membership of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles.¹ Its Master in Management (Programme Grande École) is the school’s flagship pre-experience master, delivered across campuses in Caen, Le Havre and Paris (France), Dublin (Ireland) and Oxford (UK), and it requires no specific prior work experience.¹

Curriculum & Structure

The programme runs over two or three years and offers six specialisation tracks.¹ A defining feature is its emphasis on professional experience: students can complete up to 18 months of internships, and a work-study option (three weeks in a company to one week in class) is available.¹ ³ The work-study route has its own published scope, and it is narrower than the degree’s. EM Normandie’s own work-study page places it in M1 and M2, at “75% of the year in a company, i.e. 3 weeks per month”, and on the Caen, Le Havre and Paris campuses — so the Oxford campus, one of the two the school markets as fully English-taught, is not among them.³ The page states no tuition-coverage, age or language condition, which is a gap in the school’s pages rather than a permission: France’s contrat d’apprentissage runs to 29 ans révolus whoever offers it, and the employer is a French company. Our alternance explainer sets out the national rules and compares what eleven French schools publish. The multi-campus structure — including fully English-taught delivery at Paris and Oxford, and English-and-French options at Le Havre — lets students shape an international path through the degree.¹

Application & Deadlines

Entry is a three-year bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) via application, and EM Normandie routes non-French diploma holders through that application form.¹ The GMAT is not required. The English-taught track asks for IELTS 6, TOEFL iBT 83, TOEIC 790 or Duolingo 115; the French-taught track asks for B2-level French.¹

Until 13 September 2026 this page said the English bar applied to non-native speakers. EM Normandie does not say that. Its admission block lists the identical level twice — “For non-English-speaking international candidates: English level IELTS 6 / TOEIC 790 / TOEFL 83 / DUOLINGO 115” and “For English-speaking international candidates: English level IELTS 6 / TOEIC 790 / TOEFL 83 / DUOLINGO 115” — so no native-speaker exemption is published, and an applicant from an anglophone country should not plan on one.¹ The rule EM Normandie does scope by language background is the French one, “B2 level of French for non-French-speaking international applicants”, which is the reverse shape and worth noticing: the school knows how to write a carve-out and did not write one for English. Intake sessions run throughout the year subject to availability rather than on fixed rounds, so international candidates who need a visa should apply early and confirm the current windows on the school’s admissions page.

Tuition & Funding

Tuition is €13,750 per year for 2026/27 — €27,500 across the standard two-year (M1 + M2) track — plus a €50 application fee.¹ That sits in the mid-range for a French grande-école MiM; weigh it against EM Normandie’s triple-crown standing, its FT ranking, and the up-to-18-months of internship experience the programme is built around. For how French fees compare, see how much a MiM costs in Europe and the best MiM in France.

Career Outcomes

EM Normandie reports an 87% net employment rate for its 2024 class, with 95% of graduates who found work doing so within three months.¹ The substantial internship and work-study components are designed to feed that transition. EM Normandie does not publish a single headline graduate salary we can verify here, so we don’t quote one; confirm the latest figures on the school’s own page, and see the wider picture in our France MiM career outcomes piece.

Reputation

A triple-crown accreditation, an FT Masters in Management place (85th), a multi-country campus network and a heavy internship emphasis make EM Normandie a credible English-accessible French MiM — particularly for students who want a grande-école credential with strong work-placement exposure and international mobility. Read positions as bands, not exact ranks — see how to read MiM rankings. For the wider context, weigh EM Normandie against other French and European programmes on the MiM in France hub, the best MiM in France shortlist, the France vs the UK comparison, and the full rankings.