Master in Business engineering

The comprehensive and multivalent nature of our training provides our graduates access to a large range of careers, from consulting and audit to executive positions. Essentially, our Business Engineers are prepared for any function aiming at fostering collaborative work and innovation, which means jobs involving management skills and decision making :

• Executive in any type of organization (public, private or NGOs) and sectors

• Management, strategy and IT consultant

• Entrepreneur

• Auditor or management controller

• Financial analysist and expert in Merger and Acquisitions (M&A)

Examples of alumni include

• Nathalie Erdmanis, Director Strategic Marketing & Branding, AG Insurance

• Nicolas Steisel, Co-founder, Exki

• Jean Van Wetter, Chief Executive Officer, Handicap International Belgique

• Dominique Leroy, Chief Executive Officer, Proximus

• Hadi Kamouh, Chief Executive Officer, Club Med

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This programme, very intensive and demanding programme, aims at preparing future executives, leaders and entrepreneurs for any type of industry and organization, profit, non-profit, or public. In this programme, students will develop the ability to understand and engage in all areas of business administration. A business engineer is able to integrate the main functions and departments of an organization and to arbitrate between them. Students will develop their knowledge and know-how in all fields of management (strategy, finance, marketing, human resources and leadership, operations and supply-chain, innovation, information systems and digital business), but also key competencies to decide a strategy, conduct change, or create a business: information analysis, problem solving, project leadership, people management, communication, ethics in business, critical mindset, entrepreneurial drive, team work, and self-management.

We are proud that our graduates include CEOs of large companies (Jean-Edouard Carbonelle, Marc Grynberg and Dominique Leroy for instance are CEOs of 3 of the 20 largest market capitalizations in Belgium (BEL20): Cofinimmo, Umicore and Belgacom respectively), high-level bankers (e.g. Eric Boyer de la Giroday is President of ING Belgium, Eric De Keuleneer is CEO of Credibe), brilliant consultants (Bruno Colmant is a Senior Partner at Roland Berger, Stefan Dab is a Senior Partner at BCG, François Faelli is Partner at Bain & Company, Olivier Hamoir is a Director at McKinsey), Jean-Paul Philippot, the General Director of RTBF (Belgium's French-speaking public broadcasting company), as well as talented and successful entrepreneurs, such as Nicolas Steisel (Exki) and José Zurstrassen (Skynet, Keytrade Bank).

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The following table provides an overview of the structure of the programme.

The programme offers four specialization tracks:

• Strategic Marketing

• Entrepreneurship and Innovation

• Finance

• Audit and Control

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The Solvay Brussels School assets

• A location at the heart of Europe, as part of a complete research university, Université libre de Bruxelles.

• An international faculty made of high-level researchers and accomplished practitioners who work together to ensure that the training we provide is both relevant for business and policy practice and corresponds to the state of art.

• A tradition of rigorous and demanding curricula based on solid multidisciplinary and analytical training, and the promotion of critical thinking and problem solving skills.

• A diversity of teaching methods that are constantly revised to ensure teaching effectiveness.

• A diverse and international student body (up to 80% in some master programmes).

• A complete programme offering covering the education needs in economics and business from the bachelor to in-company training.

• Accreditation from EQUIS (European Foundation for Management Development) and AMBA (Association of Masters of Business Administration). The AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) accreditation is underway.

Career services

SBS-EM offers its students several resources for career development:

• Credited Internships (full-time, for minimum 3 months - maximum 6 months) allow participating students to gain work experience, apply their academic training, and develop their professional network before graduation.

• Career Services provide practical guidance and preparation for the job market (workshops, writing a CV and application letters, interview simulations, manage their profile on Linked In etc.) and organize events (lectures and seminars) with prominent business figures, presenting companies and their employment opportunities. Over the years, the SBS-EM has developed a wide network of recruiters and alumni and has established contacts with companies throughout Belgium and around the world.

• From their graduation onwards, students benefit from a strong and active alumni network with about 21,500 members in 65 countries.

Study-abroad programmes

The Master in Business Engineering offers several opportunities to study abroad:

• The international exchange programme, with more than 110 partner universities in 40 countries

• The double degree specialized in Operations Management, with Politecnico di Milano

• The master with QTEM network

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