CEMS Study programme

-  Before semester start, fall: Blocked Seminar

-  Fall semester: 4* CEMS courses, home or abroad

-  Spring semester: 2* CEMS courses + Business Project, home or abroad

-  10 weeks internship, language tests in two foreign languages and skills seminars are mandatory and should be fulfilled by each student during the CEMS MIM year.

*There are possibilities to shift a maximum of 2 courses between semesters. For more information please see CEMS Student Guide.

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CEMS MIM and MSc

CEMS MIM can be combined with all MSc-profiles at NHH, without prolonging your studies (except for internship). The CEMS MIM will then constitute your minor and the electives. Two courses will be overlapping with your major, and as such will be mandatory.

Blocked seminars are intensive courses that will take place over one week at the beginning of the fall term. Dates may vary among the different schools. Subjects derive from different cultural and academic perspectives, and in many cases the topics will not be a part of the schools' curricula.

Normally students will take the Blocked seminar at the school where they are spending their fall term, however there are possibilities to switch to another Blocked seminar if you find another topic more interesting. Travel costs must then be carried by the student. The Blocked Seminar will usually take place at a location away from the school, and students will be asked for a financial contribution (200 EURO) to cover accommodation costs.

Blocked seminar at NHH fall 2004 was held at Hotel Fjordslotte, Osterøy.

CEMS MIM courses

The total CEMS MIM program requires that the students take 6 CEMS courses, a minimum 3 of these must be CEMS core courses.  4 courses should be done in the fall and 2 in the spring.

CEMS courses have been specially designed for the CEMS MIM program and are often a cooperation between faculty from several CEMS institutions, and representatives from Corporate partners. Each CEMS school tries to offer courses that reflect the subject areas which are typical for each school.

Information about the CEMS MIM courses at NHH can be found in the NHH student handbook online, chapter 16.

CEMS MIM-students have to complete 4 days of Skill Seminars. They can be completed either fall or spring. Normally one skill seminar will run over two days.


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Themes for Skills Seminars held at NHH:

• Presentation skills
• Intercultural understanding
• Teamwork and Teamwork-abilities
• Brand Management

CEMS Internship

CEMS MIM includes an internship abroad. Internships provide students with a real life professional experience where the main objective is to turn theoretical knowledge into a professional, multi-cultural experience. The internship must cover a consecutive period of at least 10 weeks full time in the same company, and can take place at any time during the graduate period of studies. First 10 weeks of the first job after studies can also be validated.

The CEMS network includes many Corporate Partners. Hydro and Statoil are the Norwegian Corporate Partners. The internship can take place with the Corporate Partners in CEMS, but also with other companies. The internship does not have to be done in Europe, but can take place anywhere in the world as long as it takes place outside the students' home country (if home school country and country of origin is different, only one country is excluded).

The CEMS schools will try to help students in finding internships, but in general each student will have to make an effort in finding his/her own internship. Companies offer internships via the jobline.org on the CEMS's website. Students who are accepted to the CEMS MIM will receive a password to be able to enter the jobline.org.

When the internship is fulfilled the company has to write an evaluation of the intern. The CEMS Evaluation Form should then be sent to the CEMS coordinator at the students home school.

Often internships are unpaid or at least not paid very well.

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The most important issue in terms of language qualifications is the formal evaluation which takes place as part of the CEMS MIM. All CEMS MIM-students must sit for both written and oral tests in business communication in two languages. The tests are quite demanding both in terms of content and testing method. Normally students take the tests after having spent their term abroad or having been abroad in relation to an internship. At the cems.org students can find preparation material for the language tests.

A student will not always get his/her first choice of CEMS school, however by participating in the CEMS MIM the students are a part of a network of schools, companies and students from all over Europe and thus have a unique opportunity to build networks across countries.

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