Université Paul Cezanne; Marseille

Last update: 02 okt 2012 Organisational unit: TiSEM: Education Office

Why study at Université Paul Cezanne?

IAE Aix-en-Provence Graduate School of Management - part of the Université Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille III - is located in the South of France, within France’s second largest metropolitan area after Paris. Founded in 1955, the IAE Aix-en-Provence was the first Graduate School of Management in the French public university system.

IAE Aix is the only French public university entity to receive dual international accreditation: the European standard of excellence EQUIS in 1999, and the AMBA accreditation in 2004 for its MBA Change & Innovation, in 2005 for its Master’s programs and in 2007 for its Executive Part-time MBA.

IAE AIX is a Smal university with only 800 students, of which 20% are international students with 50 different nationalities. Université Paul Cezanne however is a large university with 22.500 students. Université Paul Cezanne offers study programs in many different directions such as law, economics, politics, management and technology science whilst AIE-AIX only offers courses in the direction of Management. The university is located in the beautiful village of Puyricard, close to Marseille and the Mediterranean Sea.

Practical information


For	Bachelor & Master
Availability	Places: 2
Period	Fall or Spring Semester
Language	English
	French 1 recommended
Program	Master courses catalog IAE AIX
Finance	Cost of Living: € 500,- / € 1.000,- per month
	Erasmus grant available
Other information	To read more information, experience reports and blog posts of former exchange students, please go to our Blackboard page "Study Abroad Information" (course code FEBSAI).

Language

For students coming in the Fall Semester, IAE Aix offers before the semester starts two weeks of intensive French for Management: 3 hours per day for 10 days. In addition, a 24 hour course (3 ECTS) is offered during each semester.

In addition to IAE Aix courses University Paul Cézanne (through the International Relations Service) also offers 40 free hours of French refresher courses, exclusively for students in exchange programs.

Program

The educational system in France is different from our educational system, this means that Bachelor students from Tilburg University will take courses at M1 level, Master students will mainly take courses at M2 level.

Finance

Cost of living:

€ 500,- / € 1.000,- per month, based on the following costs:

Accommodation € 200,- / € 550,-
Food € 200,-
Transport € 20,-
Other € 100,- / € 150,-

Housing

IAE-AIX doesn’t offer housing to exchange students, but they do offer assistance in informing students on possible contact persons to arrange housing. The university regularly updates a list of private home owners and provide it to incoming exchange student upon request.

International Student Handbook

International student handbook

Experiences

To read more information, experience reports and blog posts of former exchange students, please go to our Blackboard page "Study Abroad Information" (course code FEBSAI).

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