The BBA Big Data & Management prepares students to take on cross-functional management positions. They will acquire both strong managerial skills (finance, management, marketing, strategy) and advanced technical skills in the collection, analysis and use of data for business performance.
Jointly developed by Audencia and Centrale Nantes, this course draws on the academic excellence of both institutions to offer a programme with a strong international and professional focus.
| PROMOTION | Mixed cohort of French and international students |
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| ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS | High school diploma or equivalent |
| DURATION | 4 years |
| DIPLOMA | A fully accredited bachelor’s degree (French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation) |
| LANGUAGE | 100% English |
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| INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE | 15 months minimum (study semesters and internships) |
| LOCATION | Audencia Atlantic campus & Centrale Nantes |
| NEXT INTAKE | September 2022 |
The aim of the first year is to understand the basic principles in Management and Big Data. Courses are jointly coordinated by the two institutions with each school delivering the courses within its field of expertise.
| Accounting & Finance | Algorithms |
| Introduction to computing | Marketing Mix |
| Mathematics I: Analysis | Mathematics II: Linear Algebra |
| Principles of Macroeconomics | Sales Techniques |
| English courses | Second Foreign Language courses |
| Cost Analysis | Data Structure Management |
| Information Systems Management I | Market Study |
| Mathematics III: Analysis | Mathematics IV: Linear Algebra |
| Product Innovation | Sales Communication |
| Scientific Programming | Internship |
The year finishes with a 3-month internship which must be undertaken abroad. This is designed to develop students' openness and adaptability.
The first half of the year is designed to consolidate the basic principles covered in the first year in business and engineering. Courses continue to be jointly coordinated by the two institutions.
| Business Ethics | Consumer Study |
| Databases | Information Systems Management II |
| Mathematics V: Probabilities and Statistics | Negotiation |
| Operating System | English courses |
| Second Foreign Language courses |
The four semester focuses on acquiring advanced scientific knowledge. These courses are taught exclusively by Centrale Nantes faculty on its Casablanca campus in Morocco (or at a partner university).
| AI and Data Mining for Digital Business | Cloud Computing |
| Artificial Intelligence | Data Analysis |
| Data Cleansing & Quality of Data | Data Mining |
| Information Systems Security | Machine Learning |
| Neural Networks | Scientific Visualisation |
The first semester focuses on advanced management courses. These courses are taught exclusively by Audencia faculty and are held on its campus in Shenzhen, China (or at a partner university).
| Budget Analysis | Corporate Social Responsability |
| Financial Diagnosis | Geopolitics |
| Intercultural Management | International Marketing |
| International Trade | Purchasing |
| Strategy | International Environment |
The focus in the second semester turns towards more applied learning. Students will undertake project-based work and put their knowledge into practice. Faculty from both institutions run and teach these courses jointly.
| Digital Marketing I | Digital Marketing II |
| Blockchain & Purchasing | Customer Relationship Management & Company Resource Planning |
| Crypto & Online Currencies | Data & Business Strategy |
| E-Human Resources Management | Ethics & Big Data |
| Research Methodology | Internship |
Students complete the year with a further 3-month internship period. During this internship students will be tasked with undertaking in-depth analysis of an issue linked to their responsibilities within their company and to formulating recommendations.
The first semester gives students the opportunity to work on tangible new projects, thereby applying the skills acquired throughout the first three years. Faculty from both institutions again run and teach these courses jointly.
| Big Data & Energy | Business Intelligence |
| Decision Support System | Digital Transformation & Company Architecture |
| FinTech | Operations Management & Big Data |
| Personnalisation | Recommendation Systems |
| Supply Chain & Big Data |
The final year internship takes place over a period of six months during semester 8. It is a project-based internship, whereby students are required to undertake and manage a project independently. At the end of the internship, students produce an internship report, which must include a research approach through problem definition, a methodology for dealing with the problem and a literature review.
Audencia and Centrale Nantes have joined forces to offer a joint scientific and management programme that directly addresses new company needs.
Designed for a mixed cohort of French and international students, the BBA Big Data & Management is a four-year bachelor programme combining academic excellence with international and professional experience.
In 2013, Audencia and Centrale Nantes founded the Alliance, to be joined by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nantes (ensa Nantes) the following year. The three schools capitalize on their synergies within the Alliance, which brings together engineering, management, architecture and design. This cooperation enhances teaching, research, corporate relations and the international outreach of the three Alliance members.
Audencia and Centrale Nantes have pooled their material and learning resources for the purposes of this programme. Students have access to all of the schools' campuses in France and abroad, to their media libraries, laboratories, company and alumni networks.
Just a short walk separates the Audencia Atlantic Campus and the Centrale Nantes campus, which are located at the heart of the city's main university campus and just fifteen minutes from Nantes city centre.
Audencia boasts 18,000 m2 of diverse and modular teaching facilities. Each classroom is equipped for different teaching methods and group work (video projector, audio speakers). The school also has mobile audiovisual and computer resources (digital camcorders, TV, DVD players, tablets).
Centrale Nantes houses 17 buildings on a 40-acre green campus. In addition to the standard facilities of a university campus (classrooms, media library, computer rooms, etc.), it is home to 12 research platforms, some of which are unique in France, and modern and varied sports facilities, the Centrale-Audencia-Ensa incubator and vibrant student life.
The Centrale-Audencia-Ensa incubator is an entrepreneurship support programme which aims to boost the creation of innovative companies in the Pays de la Loire region.
The unique collaboration between three nationally and internationally recognised educational and research establishments, in the fields of engineering, management, communication, design and architecture, provides exceptional conditions for the development of incubated projects. The Centrale-Audencia-Ensa incubator is fully in tune with the dynamics of the Nantes and Loire region thanks to its strong involvement in a particularly innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem.
The supercomputer, which was installed at Centrale Nantes at the end of 2015 as part of the Connect Talent project in the Pays de la Loire region, is one of the most powerful in its category in France (Tier-2). Giving access to unprecedented levels of precision, this state-of-the-art equipment is a real game changer which will release new potential for innovation.
Intensive numerical calculation is an indispensable tool for both research and industry: it reduces the cost of testing, facilitates optimization and promotes creativity and the search for new solutions. The means of calculation are also an indicator of the research and development of a region, or a nation.
High Performance Computing (HPC) consists of using software for acquisition, modeling or analysis on supercomputers of several thousand processors capable of executing several billion operations per second to model complex phenomena, process or characterise large volumes of data. It is also a set of servers designed to run long-term processes to massively and intensively calculate programs. These supercomputers can be seen as a large number of machines (computing servers) linked together by very high-speed networks.
Centrale Nantes is the only higher education establishment in France to have such a powerful supercomputer which is open to different users.