Master in Management (Programme Grande École)

KEDGE Business School’s Master in Management — its Programme Grande École — is a two-year French MiM taught across campuses in Bordeaux and Marseille. It is triple-crown accredited and was ranked within the top 50 of the Financial Times Masters in Management 2024.¹³

Overview

KEDGE was formed in 2013 from the merger of Bordeaux École de Management and Euromed Management (Marseille), and today is one of France’s larger grande-école business schools, with its main campuses in Bordeaux and Marseille.¹ It holds the triple crown of international accreditations — EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA — which only around 1% of business schools worldwide carry.⁴

Its Master in Management (Programme Grande École) is the classic French MiM: a two-year, full-time degree (Master 1 and Master 2) for graduates entering before or early in their careers, with an English-taught track available.¹ Like the other grande-école programmes, it is built around real exposure to the working world and abroad rather than two years in a lecture hall — see our explainer on what a grande école actually is.

Curriculum & Structure

The programme is experience-heavy by design. It requires a minimum six-month internship — in France or overseas — and 12 to 36 months of international exposure across two mandatory international experiences, so students leave with substantial real-world and cross-border experience on their CV.¹ In the second year, students can specialise by taking one of several MSc programmes as a double degree, tailoring the MiM toward a chosen field (finance, marketing, supply chain, sustainability and others) rather than following a single fixed track.¹

That structure — a broad management core, a long compulsory internship, two international stints and an optional specialised second year — is typical of the strongest French grande-école MiMs and is the main reason employers treat them as near-professional credentials.

Application & Deadlines

Entry requires an international bachelor’s degree with at least two years of higher education completed outside France.² The GMAT is not mandatory: applicants submit one of several accepted tests — GRE, GMAT, GAT or the TAGE MAGE — so there are multiple routes in.² A valid English-language test is required (for example TOEFL above 550 or IELTS above 6.0), and all applicants sit a 30-minute admissions interview.² More on the French entrance test in our TAGE MAGE guide.

Admissions run on a long rolling window for the September intake — roughly October to July — rather than a single deadline, with decisions typically within about ten days of a completed file and a non-refundable €120 application fee.² Because popular campuses and tracks fill as the cycle goes on, applying early helps.

Tuition & Funding

Standard-track tuition is €16,100 per year; choosing a double-degree MSc in the second year raises it to about €18,600 per year plus a €2,500 supplement.² As a two-year degree, budget for both years. That places KEDGE among the more affordable French grande-école MiMs — well below the Paris market leaders — which, set against the FT top-50 standing and triple-crown accreditation, is the core of its value case. Compare it across the field on the cheapest MiM in Europe shortlist and our guide to how much a MiM costs in Europe.

Career Outcomes

KEDGE reports that 98% of graduates secure employment within six months of completing the programme — a strong placement figure consistent with a long-internship, internationally-exposed grande-école model.¹ The school does not publish a single headline graduate salary for this specific cohort that we can verify here, so we don’t quote one; confirm current salary and destination data in KEDGE’s own employment reporting. For the wider picture of where European MiM graduates land, see which industries hire MiM graduates and who recruits European MiM graduates.

Reputation

A place inside the FT Masters in Management top 50, triple-crown accreditation, and two well-established campuses in Bordeaux and Marseille put KEDGE firmly among France’s recognised grande-école business schools — a more affordable, strongly international option than the Paris names for an applicant who wants a two-year French MiM. For the wider context, weigh KEDGE against the field on the best MiM in France, the France hub and the full composite rankings, and read whether a MiM is worth it in 2026 and how it stacks up against an MBA and against the UK route.