About Courses

The classes’ schedules are divided in 2 semesters per year:
● 1st Semester (1st October – mid-February)
● 2nd Semester (mid-February – end of June)
● Mandatory Study Trip: 1-week study trip to the CNAM Paris – France (travel, accomodation and meals will be covered by each participant)
● Optional Study Trip: a study trip to Berkley University – USA (special tax, travel, accomodation and meals will be covered by each participant)

Holidays are fixed every year, with the following schedule:
● 2 weeks for Christmas (end December, beginning January)
● 1 week for semesters break (February)
● 2.5 months the Summer Holidays (July – September, excluding study trips)

Classes will be held at the end of the week for the program in offered in a blended format (Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday), having the following structure:
●In campus classes for approximately 2/3 of the weekends
●Online classes for approximately 1/3 of the weekends
●There are usually 22 weekends per university year

Classes will be held at the end of the week and during week evenings for the program in offered in a FLEX format (Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday), having the following structure:
●In campus classes held during the 7 or 8 weekends
●Online classes held during Tuesday and Wednesday evening over approximately 12 weeks per university year
●There are usually 7 or 8 weekends per university year

Professors

 
The teaching staff includes professors from ASE and CNAM, as well as successful entrepreneurs and business specialists who are often invited as guest speakers.
The Professors are specialists with solid teaching experience and business expertise at national and international level.
 
Courses and seminars are based on a challenging interaction with a view on building a sustainable partnership for a successful future professional development.
The teaching staff is a strength of the program and gives strength to our graduates’ future performance. 
 
** We use business cases provided by HBS – Microeconomics of Competitiveness: Firms Clusters and Economic Development (MOC) – a university-wide graduate course offered to students by The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC) at Harvard Business School (HBS) with the support from OMV Petrom S.A.