This programme aims to enhance the student's capacity to develop a critical and decisive mind in the domain of Economic and Business Sciences. It is based, on the one hand, on the acquisition of knowledge within the disciplines of Economic Science, Business Science and the Social Sciences, and on the other hand on that of know-how, by means of a pedagogical approach which fosters the active participation of the student in his own training.

On a general level, one year is dedicated to the acquisition of knowledge within the general disciplines of the ESPO Faculty, one year is dedicated to the specific developments of those subjects with respect to Economic Analysis and Business Science, and one year is dedicated to the study of Economic and Business problems and methods, as well as to going more deeply into their domains of application.

The student's programme represents 180 credits. It is composed of a major of 150 credits and an option of 30 credits.

The programme comprises a pool of subjects common to the ensemble of the bachelor programmes of the ESPO Faculty (principally in the first year) and aims at fostering progressive orientation and providing training rich in the diversity of the ensemble of the subject areas relevant to the ESPO. The common pool of subjects facilitates the student's possibility of re-orientation, after the January session, towards one or another programme in the Faculty.

The major likewise corresponds to 8 credits from personally selected options.

All students may select a more advanced course in Economics or Business, or a minor (introduction to another subject) of 30 credits. Whatever the choice, access to the master's of Economic Science or Business Science is an automatic possibility.

During the second and third year, every student selects an in-depth course in Economics or in Business or a minor of 30 Credits . The choice of the minor must be approved by the Programme Supervisor.

a) Ongoing evaluation : exercises and personal pieces of work

b) Written and oral exams

The programme is accessible to those possessing a secondary school-leaving certificate (c.f. the "Access to Studies" part of the programme for a description of the admission conditions and their particular cases).

The conditions and regular admission requirements are specified on the web page "Access to Studies": http://www.ucl.ac.be/etudes/libres/en/acces.html

The bachelor's degree entitles unconditional access, without the need for any complementary courses, to the the master's programme of Economic and Business Sciences, organised within the French-speaking Community of Belgium, albeit with the exception of the master's of Business Engineering .

The bachelor's degree in Economic and Business Sciences, entitles access to other masters, subject to respect of the conditions and prerequisites specified for the programmes in question. In the case of lacking credits, these may be made up either by being added to the master's programme (if the number of lacking credits does not surpass 15 credits), or via the completion of a complementary/preparatory year before embarking on the master's programme).

Contact person for the ESPO: Anne-Françoise Mariscal, Marie Gilot

Program Supervisors : Jean Hindriks (ECON), Michel De Wolf (IAG)

Cécile Delannay

President : Michel Dorban

Secretary : Jean-Marie Yante

• Minor in Theology
  
• Minor in Philosophy
  
• Minor in Law
  
• Minor in Criminology
  
• Minor in Information and Communication (*)
  
• Minor in Political Sciences
  
• Minor in Sociology and Anthropology
  
• Minor in Human and Social Sciences
  
• Minor in Linguistics
  
• Minor in Hispanic Studies (*)
  
• Minor in Italian Studies (*)
  
• Minor in French Studies (*)
  
• Minor in Latin Studies
  
• Minor in Greek Studies
  
• Minor in Oriental Studies
  
• Minor in Literature Studies
  
• Minor in History
  
• Minor in Medieval Studies
  
• Minor in History of Art and Archaeology (*)
  
• Minor in Musicology
  
• Minor in Psychology and Education (*)
  
• Minor in Human Nutrition (*)
  
• Minor in General Biomedical Sciences (*)
  
• Minor in Clinical Biomedical Sciences (*)
  
• Minor in Medication Sciences (*)
  
• Minor in Physical Activity, Health and Culture of Movement (*)
  
• Minor in Mathematics
  
• Minor in Physics (*)
  
• Minor in Geography
  
• Minor in Statistics
  
• Minor in Urban Architecture
  
• Minor in Computing Science (*)
  
• Minor in Mathematics and Mathematical Applications
  
• Minor in Scientific Culture
  
• Minor in Gender Studies
  
• Minor in Culture and Creation
  
• Minor in European Studies
  

(*) Minor with access criteria.