Partnership between IPAG Business School and the Institut Catholique de Paris

IPAG Business School and the Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP) are proud to announce the launch of a partnership leading to the creation of an innovative double degree in Cultural Management and Engineering. This programme will provide students with excellent training in two complementary disciplines, preparing them to meet the needs of companies in the cultural sector for high-level executives capable of designing, developing and managing cultural events.

A multi-disciplinary course

Students on this course will be immersed in two key disciplines, management and cultural engineering, with courses taught on the Paris campuses of IPAG Business School and ICP and taught respectively by the teaching staff of each institution. Over the course of the 2-year Master's programme, students will take a wide range of complementary courses in the history of cultural policies in France, economics and finance, cultural mediation, social responsibility and ethics, geopolitics, law, international relations, cultural patronage and culture and the ecological transition.

A dual Grande Ecole business and university degree

On completion of their course, students will obtain :

• IPAG Business School's accredited Master's degree (Programme Grande École), EFMD accredited
• The ICP University Diploma in Cultural Engineering

25 students are expected at the start of the 2025 academic year. This range of courses is not accessible via the My Master portal.

IPAG Business School is proud to be joining forces with ICP to offer students this excellent opportunity to combine expertise in management and cultural engineering. It's a partnership based on the hybridisation of skills, a real asset for tomorrow's managers. Olivier Maillard, Managing Director of IPAG Business School.

The double degree partnership between IPAG Business School and ICP embodies our ambition to train professionals who combine expertise in management and art history to meet the strategic challenges of the cultural sector. Emmanuel Petit, Rector of the Institut Catholique de Paris.

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