EXECUTIVE MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMMES

ISGG’s one-year online Executive Master's degree programmes (30 credit hours, 60 ECTS credits) consist of at least 6 courses, each of 45 hours’ duration (video-recorded lectures [20 hours], interactive online sessions between students and the professor in charge [20 hours], final exams [5 hours]), grouped into 2 categories : core requirements and specialized courses, supplemented by research, a collective exercise and optional internship.

   

They are offered from September 2023 in the following subject-matter areas :

    

• Risk & Disaster Management

• International Trade, Governance & Development

• Post-Conflict Reconstruction 

    

In order to earn the 30 credit-hours/60 ECTS credits allotted, students are required to take at least four of the five “core” courses available, and two “specialized” courses in one of the areas of concentration offered, for a minimum tuition time of 270 taught hours in total over a year.

    

Most Executive Master’s courses are offered in English : only one “core” and one “specialized” courses are taught in French. As befits a bilingual school catering for the needs of future international careers, ISGG encourages (but does not mandate) English-speaking students to take at least one course in the second language available. Note that in the Post-Conflict Reconstruction programme, two courses can exceptionally be offered in Arabic. 

     

The academic year starts in early September and extends until late July. Teaching is delivered over three terms of 12 weeks each, in the form of multimedia lectures and online interaction. ISGG expects students to devote at least 2 hours of personal study for each taught hour.

    

Other assignments or offerings include (1) the production of a 40 page literature review, using either English or French, on a subject related to their chosen area of concentration, and (2) a one-week joint Integrated Policy Exercise, conducted electronically in late June. An optional internship in a Geneva-based international organization is offered for a modest fee (subject to availability) upon completion of the programme.