Exchanges & Internships

International Exchange 

As a student of IM/CEMS, you are required to spend the autumn or spring semester at a CEMS partner university. Each school applies the same curriculum structure to their course design and a local CEMS Club provides an active social life for the international student body, helping to build the CEMS community spirit.

Below you find a list with the CEMS partner schools:

• Australia: The University of Sydney Business School, USYD
• Austria: Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, WUW
• Belgium: Université Catholique de Louvain, UCL (Louvain-la-Neuve)
• Brazil: Fundaçao Getulio Vargas - EAESP (Sao Paulo)
• Canada: Richard Ivey School of Business (London)
• China: Tsinghua SEM, TSEM (Bejing)
• Czech Republic: University of Economics Prague, VSE
• Denmark: Copenhagen Business School, CBS (Copenhagen)
• Finland: Aalto University School of Economics (Helsinki)
• France: HEC Paris, (Jouy-en-Josas)
• Germany: University of Cologne, UoC
• Great Britain: London School of Economics, LSE
• Hungary: Corvinus University of Budapest, CUB
• Ireland: UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business, UCD (Dublin)
• Italy: Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, UB (Milan)
• Japan: Keio University (Tokyo)
• Norway:Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, NHH (Bergen)
• Poland: Warsaw School of Economics, SGH
• Portugal: Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon)
• Russia: Graduate School of Management, St Petersburg State University
• Singapore:NUS Business School
•  Spain: ESADE (Barcelona)
• Sweden: Stockholm School of Economics, SSE
• Switzerland: University of St. Gallen, HSG
• Turkey: Koc University, Graduate School of Business (Istanbul)

Internship 

You are required to do an internship abroad of at least 10 weeks. Most students join one of our CEMS corporate partners, although you are able to look independently for an organisation in which to pursue your internship. Because the internship is designed to be an intercultural experience, it must be taken in a country with which you are relatively unfamiliar. This is your chance to get a real taste of a future profession or organisation. Many students acquire their first job from the contacts they establish during this period.

Examples of Internships taken by IM /CEMS Students

• DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany 
  Optimising the testing strategy and product quality of several Mercedes-Benz series 
• UBS AG, Switzerland 
  Researching the energy derivative field in Europe 
• L’Oreal, UK 
  Marketing department 
• Volkswagen Group China, China 
  Production readiness department 
• Emerson Process Management, Singapore 
  Developing and executing a co-ordinates plan for the yearly sales meeting 
• Procter & Gamble, Belgium 
  Improving the Benelux intranet site concerning human resources 
• Frape Behr, Spain 
  Purchasing department 
• DZ Bank, Germany 
  Mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings