Honors Bachelor in Business Administration

The Honors Bachelor in Business Administration is a 2-year Bachelor and Master integrated programme, designed for students with 3-year undergraduate studies who have obtained a minimum of 180 ECTS in a business or non-business field. The students will study general management courses as well as minors in a specific management field and be granted a Bachelor's degree after successful completion. They will then have the opportunity to progress to their Master-level studies at Rennes SB.

Mission

The HBBA programme is a prestigious programme offering the most diversified courses. Students benefit from an intense year of business specialisation and intercultural immersion. The specialised courses are accompanied by a broad range of General Management classes relevant to all minors. Students will develop both specific knowledge of management and invaluable intercultural skills to operate in a variety of international contexts for their future careers.

The 1st year will allow you to obtain transversal knowledge of management and will guide you towards your specialisation by means of a set of different curiosity modules. You will be able to obtain the HBBA degree.

It will give you an excellent foundation for you to pursue a Master’s degree study in your chosen field of specialisation in the second year.

Svetlana Serdyukov
Programme Director

Admission

A strong academic background
Bachelor or 3-year Diploma or 180 ECTS
Rennes School of Business Management Aptitude Online Test (free of charge) or optional GMAT or GRE

English proficiency (one of the following before registration) :

TOEFL > 80
TOIEC > 750
IELTS > 6.0
Cambridge Proficiency Exam > B2
Native Language
Previous studies taught in English (minimum 2 years)

Programme

Year 1

Semester 1

CORE MODULES

Business Proficiency Certificate
Information Technology Management
Strategic Formulation and Simulation
Managing Diversity : an International Perspective
Change Management in a Digital & Sustainable World

CURIOSITY MODULES (CHOOSE 1 PACK)

PACK 1 – Sustainable Business
PACK 2 – Business Analytics
PACK 3 – Finance
PACK 4 – Supply Chain Management
PACK 5 – Risk Management

LEARNING BY MODULES

Students select one of the following modules:

Learning by Experimenting (School Associations)
Learning by doing (Job Student)
Learning by serving (external organisations with
social and/or sustainable impact)

Semester 2

ELECTIVES
(CHOOSE 4 MODULES)

Financial & Managerial Accounting
Social Economy
Social Entrepreneurship
Financial Markets and Portfolio Management
Strategic Human Ressource Management
Recruiting and Training
Introduction to Cording
Implementation of Business Information Systems
New Products and Brand Management
Logistics Management

Year 2

MSC DOUBLE DEGREE FOR ALL HBBA STUDENTS, WITH 11 SPECIALISATIONS (WHOLE YEAR IN RENNES):

MSc Strategic and Digital Marketing
MSc Luxury Marketing and Brand Management
MSc Sports and Tourism Management
MSc International Negotiation and Business Development
MSc International Finance
MSc Financial Data Intelligence
MSc International Accounting Management Control and Auditing
MSc Supply Chain Management
MSc Data and Business Analytics
MSc International Human Resource Management
MSc in Geopolitics & Business
* The HBBA students will follow the whole MSc programme (S5 & S6) in Rennes

TRANSVERSAL MODULES

Research Methods for Bachelor Dissertation
Personal and Professional Development
Talents & Career
Compulsory Events

COMPULSORY LANGUAGE MODULES

English Communication for Business
French for International non-francophone students
End-of-year internship (in France or abroad)

EXTERNAL ENGLISH TEST

An official test with a minimum score of TOEIC>800, TOEFL>80 or IELTS>6.5 is required for HBBA graduation. (Date of validation: any test with the minimum required score obtained between 1st September 2022 and 31st December 2025 will be accepted)