Master 120 en sciences de gestion

Overview

How should a company organize its innovation activities and the launch of a new product?
How should it manage relationships with customers and suppliers?
How should it manage people and teams?
How can it make better use of social media to promote a service?
How can it expand into new international markets?
Which funding source should be prioritized, and where should capital be invested?
How can a company become more responsible toward its environment, its employees, and more?
How can we support the digital transformation of businesses?

As a key player, the company provides a large portion of the goods and services we consume, from the most basic to the most innovative, while also providing jobs and income to its employees and owners. 

Running a business cannot be improvised! 

To become the professionals the business needs, UNamur trains you in all areas of management: finance, marketing, innovation, consulting, data management, process management, and customer and supplier relations… 

You demonstrate initiative to make informed decisions and manage projects and teams in complex, international, multicultural, and innovative environments. 

Your goals

  • Develop the rigor and critical thinking skills associated with a university education; 
  • Master the knowledge, methods, and tools of various management disciplines (finance, marketing, human resources, strategy, organization, operations management, management information systems, business law, etc.); 
  • Develop the skills to lead teams or start your own business: 
    • creativity, innovation, and an entrepreneurial spirit, 
    • language proficiency, 
    • intellectual rigor, honesty, and responsibility, 
    • leadership, autonomy, and teamwork. 

The Benefits of Studying at UNamur

A program unique in Belgium 

The corporate immersion program combines your university education with three professional internships. A hands-on experience that will look great on your future resume! 

Discover 3 real-world experiences

  • Lhorie Pirnay – GDTech:
Master immersion - Stage GDTech
  • Amandine Ransquin – Manice:
Master immersion - Stage Manice
  • Brieuc Debois and Lucas Vandierendonck - Good Move:
Master immersion - Stage Good Move

A unique educational program in more ways than one

  • Choose from 3 options within a single management field or across multiple fields: focus on specialization or versatility.
  • Courses taught in pairs by a professor and an external expert, to expose you to current events and real-world business practices.
  • A program based on regular coaching by professors.

An international focus

Study abroad programs and internships for all students within a network of universities and companies across five continents.

The program

The specialized track in Business Analysis & Integration enables you to develop an integrated perspective on management to address all the challenges facing an organization. The program covers project management, strategy, performance management, change management, risk management, quality management, and human resources management. Business ethics and new models of the sharing economy also play a significant role. 

In addition to this specialization, you will choose a study track and three electives:  

Program Tracks

Choose one of the following formats: 

  • Corporate Immersion (unique in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation): allows you to combine rigorous university training with practical experience valuable in the job market, gained through a series of internships centered around a management project conducted within a company. 
  • Advanced Management allows you to acquire a high level of expertise in one of the major fields of management. 

The options

Three options to choose from: 

  • "Taxation" track: mastering the tax and legal constraints faced by organizations. 
  • "Finance" track: portfolio management, investment strategies, the functioning of stock exchanges and financial markets, investment techniques, derivatives, risk management and its international dimension, social and sustainable finance, corporate finance—particularly financing methods—and financial analysis. 
  • Theme: “Services & Marketing Management” (unique in Belgium): developing skills related to marketing, operations, IT, technology, law, and human resources in the service sector: understanding existing customers and acquiring new ones, developing high-performing products or services, and standing out in a competitive, communication-driven, and technology-focused environment. 
  • Theme: “Organizational and Innovation Management”: training future managers capable of managing and supporting people and organizations from a critical, reflective, and people-centered perspective in the workplace.
  • Theme: “Digital Information Management”: exploring the various opportunities offered by digital technologies, understanding their diverse impacts on management processes, understanding how these technologies should be managed and integrated, supporting organizations in implementing cutting-edge technological solutions, and adopting a critical perspective on the challenges of digital technologies. 

Depending on the track you choose, you will select your electives from the listed topics. Electives in other topics may be taken at LSM, ICHEC, and Solvay, our preferred partners in French-speaking Belgium. 

Key Focus Areas of the Training Program

Regardless of the track or format you choose, your master’s program is structured around three key areas:

  • an internship in a company, in Belgium or abroad, to immerse you in the real-world business environment and prepare you for your future roles. The duration of your internship depends on the track you choose: a very long-term internship spanning both years of your master’s program (for the immersion track) or a traditional four-month internship (for the advanced track);
  • a study abroad program with our partners in Flanders (Ghent, Antwerp, Leuven), in Europe—notably in Barcelona, Rome, Warsaw, Maastricht, Tampere, Trondheim…—or further afield in the United States, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Tunisia, Mexico, Taiwan… 
  • a thesis, in collaboration with a company, organization, or research center, where you apply the knowledge and skills acquired throughout your studies. This thesis can be of two types (project or advanced) depending on the track chosen.

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And after the master's degree

Do you want to go further and acquire cutting-edge skills in specific areas of management and economics?
The EMCP Faculty offers you masters specializations in Management and Economics of Sustainable Development as well as in International and Development Economics.

Do you want to empower young people to learn and collaborate, guide them, help them become agents of change?
Find out how to become a teacher in upper secondary (secondary 4-6) after your master's degree.

Master 120 en sciences de gestion

Point of attention

This training program is suspended. Only current students (enrolled in 2024-2025) will be able to re-enroll and complete their course.

To access teacher training and teach secondary 4 to 6, you must:

  • either undertake a master's degree in teaching section 4 (120 credits), after a disciplinary bachelor's degree (180 credits)
  • or take a master's degree in teaching section 5 (60 credits), after a disciplinary bachelor's degree (180 credits) and a disciplinary master's degree (60 or 120 credits)

More information on initial teacher training

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Managerial professions

Between strategy, consulting and decision-making

As managers, you make strategic decisions and provide innovative solutions to business problems.

Constantly in contact with the company's core business, you master the methods and tools of the various management disciplines: finance, marketing, human resources, strategy, organization, operations management, management IT, business law...

You don't hesitate to put your multilingual communication to good use on the international stage or with the various teams with whom you manage projects.

You put your socially responsible managerial practices into action and ensure that the social, environmental and economic concerns of your activities are respected.

Some examples of professions

As recent graduates, you are often inserted into the management of a project. Working alone or as part of a team, you provide analyses or propose actions to achieve a given objective, within a set timeframe, with available resources or whose mobilization you organize. Your excellent analytical skills, your sense of communication, your knowledge of foreign languages, your international outlook and above all your desire to learn are also important assets for many professions.

Finance

The financial sector (banking, insurance, administration...) is the leading employer for our graduates. Every company, from family-run SMEs to multinationals, needs reliable financial indicators to draw up realistic budgets and plans. The range of professions open to those with a passion for numbers is wide:

  • Financial analysis: dissecting balance sheets, assessing credit, advising investors;
  • Customer advice in a credit organization;
  • Internal audit: verifying internal procedures for good governance and the generation of reliable financial statements;
  • External audit: verification of the quality and accuracy of financial information provided;
  • risk management: the assessment and modeling of all risks likely to weigh on an organization;
  • fund accounting: daily calculation of the inventory value of several investment funds;
  • etc..

Commerce and distribution

Negotiating, obtaining the best prices, prospecting for new suppliers, monitoring the development of new packaging, optimizing the routing of products to customers... so many missions with responsibilities relating to sales and distribution. Alongside strictly sales-oriented companies such as supermarkets, industries and certain service companies also offer numerous career opportunities in purchasing, marketing and logistics.

Business management

In the industrial world, our graduates take part in all stages of the supply chain : they plan production, arbitrate disputes between salespeople and producers, manage inventories, organize the transportation of goods, etc.

Others exercise their skills in the IT department, for example as part of the implementation of integrated company management software.

Some join the human resources departments and do recruitment, calculate payroll costs, set up skills management tools or a training policy, etc.

After a few years in operational roles, the careers of management academics frequently evolve towards management positions, where they participate in the company's strategic decisions.

Consultancy firms, which specialize in advising companies, place their expertise and technical and human resources at the service of their clients, for example in the field of strategy or the evaluation of internal processes. Many young graduates start their professional careers here.

Finally, entrepreneurship will enable the most daring to build on the solid, multi-disciplinary foundations of their training to set up their own company.

Research and teaching

Some graduates pursue research activities in Belgium or abroad. They complete a doctorate or take part in a research program. Several alumni pass on their knowledge in secondary, higher and continuing education.

Job search assistance

The Employment Unit supports final-year Master's students and recent graduates in their career paths, via a number of services: dissemination of job and internship offers, orientation interviews, workshops on themes linked to professional integration, information and documentation on the world of work.

Managerial professions

Between strategy, consulting and decision-making

As managers, you make strategic decisions and provide innovative solutions to business problems.

Constantly in contact with the company's core business, you master the methods and tools of the various management disciplines: finance, marketing, human resources, strategy, organization, operations management, management IT, business law...

You don't hesitate to put your multilingual communication to good use on the international stage or with the various teams with whom you manage projects.

You put your socially responsible managerial practices into action and ensure that the social, environmental and economic concerns of your activities are respected.

Some examples of professions

As recent graduates, you are often inserted into the management of a project. Working alone or as part of a team, you provide analyses or propose actions to achieve a given objective, within a set timeframe, with available resources or whose mobilization you organize. Your excellent analytical skills, your sense of communication, your knowledge of foreign languages, your international outlook and above all your desire to learn are also important assets for many professions.

Finance

The financial sector (banking, insurance, administration...) is the leading employer for our graduates. Every company, from family-run SMEs to multinationals, needs reliable financial indicators to draw up realistic budgets and plans. The range of professions open to those with a passion for numbers is wide:

  • Financial analysis: dissecting balance sheets, assessing credit, advising investors;
  • Customer advice in a credit organization;
  • Internal audit: verifying internal procedures for good governance and the generation of reliable financial statements;
  • External audit: verification of the quality and accuracy of financial information provided;
  • risk management: the assessment and modeling of all risks likely to weigh on an organization;
  • fund accounting: daily calculation of the inventory value of several investment funds;
  • etc..

Commerce and distribution

Negotiating, obtaining the best prices, prospecting for new suppliers, monitoring the development of new packaging, optimizing the routing of products to customers... so many missions with responsibilities relating to sales and distribution. Alongside strictly sales-oriented companies such as supermarkets, industries and certain service companies also offer numerous career opportunities in purchasing, marketing and logistics.

Business management

In the industrial world, our graduates take part in all stages of the supply chain : they plan production, arbitrate disputes between salespeople and producers, manage inventories, organize the transportation of goods, etc.

Others exercise their skills in the IT department, for example as part of the implementation of integrated company management software.

Some join the human resources departments and do recruitment, calculate payroll costs, set up skills management tools or a training policy, etc.

After a few years in operational roles, the careers of management academics frequently evolve towards management positions, where they participate in the company's strategic decisions.

Consultancy firms, which specialize in advising companies, place their expertise and technical and human resources at the service of their clients, for example in the field of strategy or the evaluation of internal processes. Many young graduates start their professional careers here.

Finally, entrepreneurship will enable the most daring to build on the solid, multi-disciplinary foundations of their training to set up their own company.

Research and teaching

Some graduates pursue research activities in Belgium or abroad. They complete a doctorate or take part in a research program. Several alumni pass on their knowledge in secondary, higher and continuing education.

Job search assistance

The Employment Unit supports final-year Master's students and recent graduates in their career paths, via a number of services: dissemination of job and internship offers, orientation interviews, workshops on themes linked to professional integration, information and documentation on the world of work.