Spread over a five-year programme, this course is intended to provide a very comprehensive training, both general and specific, provided by the first three years of solid scientific training, advanced economics, economic and financial law, and courses dealing with the range of management sciences (organisation, strategy, finance, accounting, audit and taxation, marketing, human resources), as well as an introduction to various disciplines designed to widen the field of knowledge and critical capacities of our graduates. Thus, the social sciences comprise another important part of the basic training delivered in this course, including: labour relations, sociology, psychology and economic history and geography.

Since its foundation, the SBS has always emphasised the importance of learning foreign languages. It is for this reason that the School provides double the numbers of hours imposed as a legal minimum in Belgium for English, Dutch or German. These courses are designed to improve not only the theoretical and practical acquisition of the language, but also to build the students’ knowledge of the language in relation to business and management. These top-level language courses guarantee that our students are absolutely tri-lingual by the end of their Bachelor Degree course.

For the two-year Master’s Degree course, students can continue with their general management course, or take a specialist option. Students may choose from the following options: marketing, finance, taxation and auditing, strategy, entrepreneurship and innovation, research, governance and social choice, economy or European business. During their final year, students prepare a dissertation and take part in a company seminar and a consultancy project, which they carry out in a company in a team of three or four students.

The Solvay Business School is the only business school in Belgium to have made it mandatory for every one of its students to spend a semester abroad as part of an exchange programme with a foreign university.