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Running an organisation or creating your own
Both programmes teach the same accounting, the same market reading and the same team management. One prepares you to hold a role in an established structure, the other to build the structure itself. Here are their durations, volumes and fees, side by side.
Two ways of practising management
The management programme places you inside an organisation that exists: you learn to read its accounts, lead its teams, hold a role and account for your results. The entrepreneurship programme starts from a blank page: market study, business model, funding plan, legal incorporation, first customers and first hires. The second is shorter and more concentrated; the first covers more functions.
What each route announces
Business Management programme — Bac+3 level
Understand the whole business before running it. Read and interpret a company's financial statements.
Entrepreneurship
Leave the programme with a business, not just a qualification. Validate a market need before committing resources.
Both programmes, line by line
| Criterion | Business Management programme — Bac+3 level | Entrepreneurship |
|---|---|---|
| Duration | 3 years | 18 months |
| Pace | Full time | Self-paced |
| Weekly workload | 20 h per week | 13 h per week |
| Teaching blocks | 8 | 6 |
| Supervised hours | 1800 h | 600 h |
| Credits | 180 credits | 60 credits |
| Fees | 4 800 000 GNF per year | 4 400 000 GNF per year |
Months and credits, side by side
- months
- 36
- months
- 18
- credits
- 180
- credits
- 60
Business Management programme — Bac+3 level
Entrepreneurship
Business Management programme — Bac+3 level
Entrepreneurship
How to choose
- You already have a named project and first customers: entrepreneurship structures it
- You want first to understand every function of a company: management covers them
- Entrepreneurship is self-paced: your project advances during the programme
- Management is full time and brings together a cohort present every day
- The fees and duration in the table give the total commitment of each trajectory
What candidates ask
Is a project required for entrepreneurship?
An idea in mind is enough: the programme tests it against the market, the business model and the funding plan, block by block.
Does the management programme also prepare for founding?
It provides the necessary accounting, finance and organisation, and its final-year project may address a venture.
Can you start a company during the programme?
The entrepreneurship programme is built for it: its pace is self-directed and its assignments draw on your own venture.
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