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Covering broadly or digging into one function
A generalist programme makes you legible everywhere in an organisation; a specialist programme makes you indispensable in one precise spot. Both lead to the same level and the same credential. This page sets their blocks, volumes and fees on one grid.
Two competency strategies
The generalist covers every function of a company: management, sales, finance, human resources, organisation. It lets you understand a decision where it is made and hold coordination roles. The specialist takes one function and works through it in depth, from raw data to the dashboard used to decide. It opens roles where named technical command is expected. Both award the same register of credential.
What each one promises
Business Management programme — Bac+3 level
Understand the whole business before running it. Read and interpret a company's financial statements.
Business Intelligence and Steering
Turning scattered data into decisions a management team can act on. Gather data from several systems without losing its meaning.
Broad or deep, line by line
| Criterion | Business Management programme — Bac+3 level | Business Intelligence and Steering |
|---|---|---|
| Register | Bachelor's degree | Bachelor's degree |
| Duration | 3 years | 2 years |
| Teaching blocks | 8 | 7 |
| Supervised hours | 1800 h | 1200 h |
| Credits | 180 credits | 120 credits |
| Weekly workload | 20 h per week | 20 h per week |
| Fees | 4 800 000 GNF per year | 5 000 000 GNF per year |
Competencies validated on each side
Business Management programme — Bac+3 level
- Accounting
- OHADA law
- Excel
- Management control
- Negotiation
Business Intelligence and Steering
- SQL
- Modelling
- Dashboards
- Data quality
- Statistics
How to position yourself
The role you picture
Coordinating several functions: the generalist gives you the full vocabulary. Holding a named expertise: the specialist builds it.
How you like to work
Moving between subjects in a single day, or digging into the same project for weeks: both pleasures are real, and they point to different programmes.
Your next step
The generalist then opens several higher-level specialisations; the specialist opens the leadership of one function. Both continue.
What we are asked most
Does a generalist programme specialise along the way?
Yes: the final year carries elective blocks and a project you steer towards the function that interests you.
Does the specialist programme cover general management?
It carries a base of management, finance and organisation, then devotes the rest of its volume to its own function. The table gives its number of blocks.
Can the two logics be combined?
Yes, by completing a generalist programme with a specialist certificate: the page comparing the two formats gives the cumulative volumes.
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