Teaching method

This program, whose quality has been recognized by external auditors through the EQUIS international accreditation procedure, presents four key strengths:

• A wide offer of specialisation options: By having access to more than 30 standard specialisation options (Marketing, Finance, etc) or cross functional (European Business, Entrepreneurship, Services Management, etc) the student can specialise him/herself into the sharpest areas of business. He strengthens this specialisation by preparing a thesis and an internship in the same area. These options are offered in all campuses: Louvain-La Neuve, Namur and Mons. In most cases, courses within one option are organized over a single day of the week to facilitate mobility from one site to the other.
  
• A teaching approach which articulates academic knowledge and professional practice: Taught topics are delivered in a balanced way by academics who are also active researchers in their area and by professionals selected by their well known expertise. All students have the possibility to carry out an internship of 60 days in a company and to formulate their thesis as an answer to a problem or objective identified while performing such internship, in the form of a Project-Thesis. The relationship with companies is omnipresent both in the courses and the extra-curricular activities organised by Corporate Relations.
  
• Teaching methods focused on learning and development of transferable skills. This is implemented by the widely generalized use of teaching methods focused on problem-solving, group learning (case studies, projects, problems, simulations) and work autonomy. This approach is complemented with mandatory readings, theoretical frameworks and conferences and lies in a balance between continues evaluation and final evaluation of learning outcomes, between individual evaluations and group evaluation.
  
• A strong international perspective: This internationalisation (see Mobility and Internationalization) lies mainly over a particularly wide network of exchange partners (over 120 institutional partners), the exclusive access in Belgium to the Master in International Management (CEMS-MIM), the possibility of obtaining a Double Degree, of participating in the IB program and becoming part of the PIM and other international networks to which the LSM belongs, as well as through the exposure to numerous students coming on exchange or to study as regular students at the LSM every academic year.

 

Various methods of assessment are used in the programme :

• continuous assessment of work/learning of each group of students (between 30% and 70% if individual assessment  is satisfactory) : presentations in public, participation in debates, written reports;
  
• individual assessment of learning during the examination period (between 30% and 70% of final mark) : test of knowledge, part of assignment/report, critical distance/group work, reading report.