What Is a Bachelor in Business?
A Bachelor in Business is a Bac+3-level qualification, taken in a business school over three years after the baccalaureate. It provides the fundamentals of commerce, administration and management, with a strong focus on internships and hands-on projects that ground learning in practice. A recognised Bachelor in Business is State-accredited and leads to a Grade de Licence.
What you learn in a Bachelor in Business
A Bachelor in Business gives you the fundamentals of the business world: marketing, finance, administration, business development, an international dimension, entrepreneurship, social responsibility, data and management. This generalist foundation doesn't require you to arrive with a career project already set, since that is precisely its logic: you explore broadly before choosing, and specialisations then refine this foundation towards the end of the programme, once your interests have become clearer.
This gradual approach isn't limited to lectures. Professional experience is an integral part of the qualification, not an option added on top: internships and company projects punctuate the three years, so that every theoretical notion is quickly tested in the field.
At Excelia Business School, responsibility is also lived outside the classroom: Humacité© and Climacité© are Excelia Business School's engagement schemes, and each programme's page details the place they occupy in the curriculum.
Admission to a Bachelor in Business, and the markers of its value
You enter a Bachelor in Business after the baccalaureate, in the first year. If you are already at Bac+2 level, you can also join certain programmes directly in the second or third year, to redirect your path. As a school student in France, your application for the first year goes through Parcoursup, where you state your choices and submit your file: Excelia Business School's Parcoursup platform helps you prepare it.
That leaves the question that matters most: does this qualification have real value? Three markers let you check it, whichever school awards it: State accreditation, the Grade de Licence, and listing on the RNCP (France's National Register of Professional Certifications). Excelia Business School's Bachelor in Business brings all three together: State-accredited, Grade de Licence, listed on the RNCP at level 6, and it offers you specialisations towards the end of the programme as well as a possible work-study option, detailed on its dedicated page.
What a Bachelor in Business leads to next
On graduating, two paths open up to you. The first is to enter working life directly, in operational and sales-related roles:
- business development
- customer relations
- marketing
- project management
- banking or purchasing
These are hands-on roles, where the professional experience gained during your three years of study comes into play immediately.
The second is to continue your studies at Master's level to specialise in a more specific career. The Master of Science (MSc) programmes, to specialise after a Bac+3, then extend this generalist foundation into a chosen field: finance, marketing, purchasing and supply chain, or management, depending on your interests.
If you are still torn between the different Bachelor formats, Excelia Business School's Bachelor pathways let you compare the approaches and rhythms, to choose the one that best suits your plans.