CDI – College des Ingenieurs – France

Information:  CDI is an independent international post-graduate education institution. Funded 100% by the industry, the CDI is proud to be able to offer its participants an exceptional framework and study conditions: the best professors, who teach in the most prestigious private universities (Harvard, Chicago, INSEAD … ) or public (St Gall, Lausanne …), residential seminars to industry standards, high-level coaching, first-rate professional relations with companies. The college covers all study costs, a salary for the college student and delivers an MBA.

All our programs are inspired by the “Act to understand” philosophy; the year at the College is a true professional year.

While all Master’s degree courses in science or engineering are becoming more homogenous, with the globalization of higher education (in Europe the L / M / D system), and all the CVs of young graduates are all starting to look alike, the CDI was created, in France and Germany, in partnership with world-leading groups, to detect, assess and train in management only those, among young engineers graduating from European, American and Chinese universities of excellence, who have a real potential of future business leaders.

Detect, pre-select, interview

in the world, each year 600 engineers graduates, the most talented, coming from the best academic institutions, and likely to assimilate very quickly the teaching of the first rank management professors, teaching in the short list of the first world business schools.

To choose

among the 600 engineers, for our program, the 100 whom we consider the most gifted for action, and the most capable of meeting the challenge of results, because they will know how to capture in ten months the attitude, the methods and the specific values ​​of very high business potential.

Develop

a unique “assessment process”, the “College of Engineers Program” which has the confidence of leading teams of global partner companies, and which has accelerated the emergence of young talents in key wealth creation positions.

The MBA program

Success in exams for the theoretical part (MBA) is only one of the prerequisites for the professional validation of CDI “fellows” and a very partial element of the Program.

An intensive MBA program at CDI

-Finance

-Human ressources

-Marketing & Strategy

-Production & Organization

-Leadership

The Master Classes

For 25 years, the College of Engineers has invited CEOs and personalities

major events in public life in Europe and around the world.

Their presence shows their interest in training high potential managers. These meetings are informal and aim to exchange information and experiences between future leaders and current leaders.

Executive programs

The executive programs aim to prepare young “high potential” managers for general management positions. These programs are part of the strategy of developing internal pools of high potential companies. The College of Engineers creates tailor-made programs and has been running such programs for large international groups for several years.

Doctorates

the College of Engineers, with its partner universities of excellence,  leads a double doctoral and MBA degree:

“Sciences, Humanities and Management”

Medicine & Management” program

This “Medicine & Management” program is offered:

– doctors (MD) or doctor-doctors (MD-PhD),

– for medical students who wish to take a year back (just before or during their internship).