Bachelor's Degree in Management
A professionally oriented Bachelor's degree over three years, within the LMD framework, in line with international standards and norms. A common core, then the specialisation of your choice, and a presence in the workplace that grows every year.
LMD framework
The LMD system (Licence-Master-Doctorate), adopted by the European Union and then across much of the French-speaking academic world, rests on a shared unit of measure: the ECTS credit. Each year of study is worth 60 of them, whatever the institution or the country — a convention that makes it possible to compare a course of study from one continent to another, to transfer what has already been earned to another university, or to continue studying abroad without starting from scratch. By building its Bachelor's Degree in Management on that same benchmark, over three years and 180 credits in total, KIAMI places its degree in a language that universities and employers, in the DR Congo and elsewhere, recognise straight away.
International outlook
KIAMI brings together entrepreneurs, researchers and teachers from Congo, Canada, Europe and Africa around a single aim: to train the managers and entrepreneurs who will put their skills to work on the resources of Kongo Central and the DR Congo.
Each year has a clear purpose: to understand, to specialise, then to practise. The first sets a common core for all students (management, accounting, marketing, law, economics and digital tools), enriched with seminars led by practitioners and with first entrepreneurial projects, so that the choice of stream that follows rests on an overall view rather than on a hunch. The second year begins the specialisation chosen from the six streams, but learning does not stay in the classroom: a management simulation, a field project and a placement with a partner company put every notion to the test of a real case. The third shifts the weight of the programme towards the field (a long placement, a supervised project and mentoring by a practitioner from the target sector), while advanced courses come to shed light on the experience gained rather than precede it. For students who would rather build their own company than join a partner's, the KIAMI Incubator offers the same logic of learning by doing, from the first year and for every specialisation. Three years, then, but a single progression: from understanding how an organisation works to holding real responsibility within it.
A common core for all students: management, accounting, marketing, law, economics and digital tools. Alongside it, seminars led by practitioners, entrepreneurial projects and a first immersion activity in a company.
Two blocks of specialisation courses, project management in the field, a community project and a placement block with a partner company.
The year is split evenly between courses and work in a company: a long placement, a supervised project carried out in the field, mentoring by a practitioner from the target sector and an inter-specialisation competition. Advanced courses come to shed light on that experience.
Practical work and the workplace enter the programme gradually: first you observe, then you contribute, then you practise. This is not only a matter of field experience: research on experiential learning shows a stronger effect on reasoning and judgement than on technique alone, provided that each experience is followed by structured feedback — that is the mentor's role at every stage. Arrangements rooted in companies also develop what no course can teach on its own: teamwork, autonomy and a concrete understanding of the professional world.
Seminars and talks led by practitioners, real case studies, entrepreneurial projects and short placements in companies, to understand how an organisation works.
A business management simulation, a field project in a real workplace and a placement with a partner company, under the supervision of an academic tutor and a workplace tutor.
A long placement and a supervised project, built from a real problem faced by the host company, with one-to-one mentoring and regular follow-up through to the final presentation.
A professional network already in place, verifiable field experience, a supervised project that keeps a record of it, and employers who have seen you work.
Beyond the technical knowledge specific to each stream, the Bachelor's degree works on the abilities that make the difference at the hiring stage.
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Analysing a management situation from real data, choosing between several options none of which is obvious, and defending that choice in front of professionals who will have to live with the consequences themselves.
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Running a project with teammates from other specialisations or with the staff of a partner company: handling disagreement, sharing out roles and keeping the group performing under the pressure of deadlines.
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Using management tools and technologies to streamline processes and improve the organisation's decisions, while developing the critical judgement needed to turn those tools into good decisions.
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Building ethics, governance and sustainable development into management decisions: for Congolese companies, this requirement is becoming a condition of access to markets and to finance, not a separate chapter.
Academic framework
The KIAMI Bachelor's degree follows the LMD architecture that came out of the Bologna Process, a framework in line with international standards and norms for structuring degrees. Your degree is therefore directly comparable with those awarded elsewhere on the continent, as well as in Europe and North America.
It serves a precise objective for KIAMI: making the degree easier to recognise and students easier to move, within the academic partnerships planned with African, European and North American institutions, including at postgraduate level.
The settled points of the programme. Admission requirements and the documents to supply are set out on the Admissions page.
The choice of specialisation is made in the second year, once you have covered every field of management and met professionals.
