The Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario will launch a new Master of Science in Management degree in 2010.
The degree will focus on international business and will be delivered in conjunction with the CEMS Master in International Management (MIM) program, the top program of its kind according to the Financial Times’ 2009 rankings.
Founded in 1988, CEMS is an alliance of 28 schools on four continents and more than 57 corporate partners. The alliance collaborates in delivering the curriculum, reaching broad agreement on what to offer.
“This degree addresses the need for a new breed of manager – one who not only understands best practice but can assess how innovation and changing best practice affect international management,” says Darren Meister, Faculty Director of Ivey’s MSc Program.
The Ivey MSc degree will begin its first class in August 2010 and is open to students with two years or less of full-time work experience. Ivey expects to enroll 30-40 students.
For potential students there will be two options.
In the CEMS option, students will have an undergraduate business degree, demonstrate fluency in two or more languages, and complete all the requirements of the MIM and MSc programs.
The international business option will be open to students with any undergraduate degree that prepares them to study international business at the graduate level and is completed at Ivey.
In both cases, Ivey and CEMS students will learn together.
“Joining the CEMS alliance will expand Ivey’s international profile and our connection with practicing managers through a high-profile network of corporate partners,” said Eric Morse, Ivey Associate Dean, Programs. Ivey will be the exclusive Canadian partner for CEMS and is the leader in North America.
“CEMS is proud that the Ivey Business School will formally join the alliance this December and offer the MIM program,” says Francois Collin, Executive Director of CEMS. “Ivey is a pioneer in leadership education and it is only fitting that they will bring the CEMS MIM to North America.”
According to CEMS, the MIM program provides “a unique blend of top-level education and professional experience for multilingual, multicultural post-graduate students.”
CEMS members include London School of Economics, National University of Singapore, HEC Paris, ESADE (Spain) and Fundaçao Getulio Vargas and EAESP (Brazil). Ivey will formally join later this year. The program is subject to the approval of the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies.
For more information, visit www.cems.org.
