Bachelor's degree
Business School
Business Management programme — Bac+3 level
Understand the whole business before running it.
- Accounting
- OHADA law
- Excel
- Management control
3 years20 h/week
4 800 000 GNF per yearView curriculum
IHETC Business School
Entrepreneurship
Leave the programme with a business, not just a qualification.
- Entry level
- Bachelor's degree
- Award
- Bachelor's degree
- Duration
- 18 months
- Actual work
- 13 h/week
- Pace
- Self-paced
- Tuition
- 4 400 000 GNF per year
A learning-by-doing programme: every student works on their own venture from day one. Real market research, prototype, first customers, accounting and fundraising. Final assessment is on the venture itself, defended before a panel of entrepreneurs and funders.
Learning objectives
- Validate a market need before committing resources
- Build a viable business model and cost it out
- Launch a first offer and win the first customers
- Structure the company legally and seek funding
Curriculum
600 hours · 60 credits
Year 1420 hours
From idea to problem
120 hours · 12 credits
Customer interviews, validating the need, market size, competitive analysis
Business model
120 hours · 12 credits
Value proposition, revenue streams, cost structure, unit economics, break-even
Prototype and first offer
100 hours · 10 credits
Minimum viable product, pricing, first customers, iterating on real feedback
Financial management of the launch
80 hours · 8 credits
Forecasts, cash plan, steering the first months, financing working capital
Year 2180 hours
OHADA legal framework and incorporation
80 hours · 8 credits
Choosing a company form, registration, tax and social obligations, intellectual property
Entrepreneurial project
100 hours · 10 credits
An actual launch or a fundable file, defended before a panel that includes funders
Real prerequisite
What follows is assumed and will not be explained again. If most of it is foreign to you, this is not the right entry point — better to know now than at the final assessment.
No technical prerequisite, but an idea or an activity to move forward: the programme is built on your project, not on a textbook case.
Entry requirements
- Open to all, with or without a qualification
- Present an idea or project, even at intention stage
- Motivation interview focused on the venture
Career outcomes
- Business founder
- Business acquirer
- Business development manager
- Incubator support officer
- Independent consultant
Skills acquired
- Market research
- Business model
- Sales
- Cash flow
- Pitching
Business School
Other programmes in this school
Master's degree
Business School
Finance and Accounting programme — Bac+5 level
Numerical rigour in the service of decision-making.
- OHADA
- Financial analysis
- Budgeting
- Audit
2 years20 h/week
6 800 000 GNF per yearView curriculum
Bachelor's degree
Business School
International Trade
Move goods, contracts and trust across borders.
- Incoterms
- Customs
- Logistics
- Documentary credit
2 years20 h/week
5 000 000 GNF per yearView curriculum