Business School Lausanne - BSL (reviews)

Academics at Business School LAUSANNE

For every degree that we offer at BSL, we focus on personalized education for global impact.  Personalized education has, at BSL, a double bottom-line. We have a personalized approach to what we are teaching and to how we are teaching it.  Our education also aims for global impact.  We teach our students big picture thinking, so they are able to develop innovative cross-sector solutions, which we believe will help them to realize their true potential in whatever avenue of business they choose to pursue.

Global Impact

We want all our students to have the capacity to understand and address today’s and tomorrow’s challenges in business and society. Our graduates are doers who can change the way business is done, whenever it is needed, to have a more significant impact on their future professional roles.

To achieve this goal, our teaching is built around three main pillars:

• The transfer of the most up-to-date business knowledge, adapted to the evolutions of business operations and strategy in a globalized and digitalized world.
• The understanding of the implications on all businesses of the two major global megatrends, shaping business transformation today: Sustainability and Digitalization.
• The development of our students’ entrepreneurial mindset and skills, which they will need to become doers and be able to take action to have the most significant possible impact in their future roles in business.

Education for global impact means in our different programs that: 

At the BBA level – ACQUIRE

At the BBA level, we help students acquire the business skills, the entrepreneurial mindset and the understanding of the megatrends shaping today’s world to help them contribute to making an impact in business.

Entry to the programme is possible in September, November, February and May, and it can be taken in an accelerated format (2 years), classic (3 years) or as a double degree (2.5 – 3 years) with an additional Bachelors degree from Dublin Business School in Ireland or Université Paris-Est Créteil in France.

At the MASTER level – MASTER

At the Master’s level, we want our students to master the business skills, the entrepreneurial mindset and the understanding of the megatrends shaping today’s world to enable them to initiate an impact in business. Students can choose from 3 exciting concentrations: Entrepreneurial Leadership, Finance or Sustainability.

At the MBA level – IMPROVE AND USE

At the MBA level, we help our experienced professionals by improving and using their business knowledge combined with their business expertise and know-how to have the highest possible impact on the transformation of a specific business.

We take into account the individual talents, interests, and situations of our students, by adopting a specific approach towards personalized education. We have a personalized approach as to what we are teaching and as to how we are teaching it.

At the DBA level – CREATE

At the DBA level, we help senior professionals create new business knowledge and new business practice in the form of frameworks, methods or tools to impact the transformation of a whole industry.

CAMPUS & STUDENT LIFE

Pursuing a degree at BSL gives you the chance to live and study in Switzerland, a multilingual country with a culturally diverse population and a growing expat community. You’ll have the opportunity to meet people from all over the world, enhance your cross-cultural skills, learn new languages and develop a global mindset.

BSL students benefit from the school’s close proximity to many international organizations and large corporations in the Geneva Lake region. Well known for its innovation, banking, commercial and tourism infrastructure, Switzerland ranks among the world’s 20 largest economies and hosts 15 Fortune 500 companies.  Importantly, the region where BSL is based is renowned as a Start-Up and Scale-Up Hub as well as home to over 60 International Sports Federations, offering a wide range of internship and networking opportunities.

BSL’s student council is responsible for organizing events and cultural activities on and off campus throughout the year with the aim of bringing students together to build relationships and network.

You can look forward to welcome parties for new students, our much-loved Culture days, BBQs and many other exciting social events. Our student council is also dedicated to giving back to the community, thus numerous humanitarian projects are created by it and we encourage our full student body to get involved.  We offer two clubs, in Investment and in Sustainability, bringing together students, faculty, and staff to regularly meet and launch impactful projects and participate in regular events to network within Industry and enhance your knowledge.

Lausanne is easily accessible by road, by rail (with links to major Swiss cities and the TGV from Paris and Milan), by air (situated 60 km from Geneva International Airport, just 45 minutes by car or by train) and even by boat on Lake Geneva. This opens up endless opportunities to explore Switzerland and the rest of Europe on weekend trips and during school breaks.

CAREERS & ALUMNI

At our Careers Office, BSL students start their parallel employability journey, complementary to the academic one. BSL offers the opportunity to benefit from customized career mentoring sessions related to self-branding and networking skills, with the ultimate aim of increasing their overview of opportunities, and choices, for their professional future.

The BSL Career Center is an online, multi-stakeholders platform that serves the Careers Office by connecting students to opportunities in Switzerland and worldwide; Alumni and companies have access to this platform and share with the BSL Community internships, jobs, voluntary positions and thoughtful events.

Both professors and the Careers Office regularly invite Guest Speakers in class to give students the opportunity to connect with successful industry experts from the industry, including multinationals, SMEs, startups and entrepreneurs. Students also benefit of Company Visits aimed at giving a strategic perspective of the industry, specific to the Swiss market.