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DESCM programme
Last update: 05-23-2008
This programme is run by the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce (ESC), a GSCM - Montpellier Business School establishment.
The Montpellier Business School ESC is an establishment that has over one hundred years experience in Commerce, Management and Administration education.
The higher education establishment of the Training Centre (Pôle Formation) of the Montpellier CCI, a member of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles, and authorised since 2004 to award Master’s degrees, Montpellier ESC’s end-purpose is to train specialist – generalist executives who can be immediately operational as managers, business founders and business acquirers.
At the Graduate level, Montpellier ESC awards the Master’s Degree of the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Montpellier (level M in the nomenclature LMD).
Through academic exchanges, the DESCM programme, in the last year of the programme, welcomes students from GSCM - Montpellier Business School’s foreign partner Universities and allows them to obtain a DESCM, subject to validation of all the teaching of the academic year and of the internship for the professional specialisation.
Who is the programme for?
Through academic exchanges, this programme is open to students from our foreign partner universities under the terms of contracts signed with them (refer to the list of GSCM - Montpellier Business School’s foreign partner universities).
For applications outside of academic exchanges, please visit the Montpellier ESC site.
Programme
Master’s Degree of the l'Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Montpellier (“Diplôme de l'Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Montpellier”) – DESCM (programme taught in French)
- Strategic decision making
- Strategic marketing
- Strategic finance
- Human resources management
- Strategic management
- Project communications – spoken or written
- Operational management
- Marketing techniques
Elective course (choice of one course):
- Entrepreneurship and Market Dynamics
- Information systems and Dynamics of Organisations
Specialisation (16 specialisations available in 2006)
- Purchasing and Quality Management
- Managing NGOs
- Human Resource Skills Management
- Consultancy professions
- Business Engineer for Computing and Telecommunications Products and Services
- Sales Negotiation
- Public Market Negotiation
- Credit Management and Client Cycle Management
- Supply Chain Management
- ERP Consultant
- Managing Net Economy Projects
- Small Business
- International Wine Trade
- Management Control
- Marketing
Internship for the specialisation
Educational regulations
This document contains information on the study procedures at the Montpellier Business School (“Ecole Supérieure de Commerce”: ESC), the establishment that awards the DESCM.
Internal regulations
This concerns the rules operating inside the establishment.
Learning Agreement
The Learning Agreement is the form to fill out in order to register for the courses. It has to be validated by your university and the GSCM - Montpellier Business School International Programmes Department.
Registration form
This form is for students from foreign partner universities, selected by their university to take part in an academic exchange with GSCM - Montpellier Business School under the terms of a cooperation contract signed between the two institutions.


