Bachelor's degree Economics and Management
Entry requirements
General baccalaureate with a good grounding in mathematics or reorientation after a first year of higher education.
Benefits of the program
The Economics and Management degree at Gustave Eiffel University is the best in France according to L'Étudiant in 2025, ahead of 60 other universities, with a score of 17.5/20!
- The first two years of this Bachelor's degree offer a balance between economics and management, allowing students to acquire the fundamentals of both disciplines before specialising in the third year.
- The Bachelor's degree is designed to enable students to continue their studies in any Master's degree in economics and management and thus to pursue careers in all fields related to economics and management.
- In addition to this varied curriculum, we are committed to promoting the success of our students through individualised monitoring and tutoring programmes.
Acquired skills
Subject-specific skills in economics and management:
- Apply key concepts in economics (macroeconomics, microeconomics, currency and finance, etc.) and organisational management (accounting, finance, marketing, human resources, information systems, etc.).
- Use quantitative techniques to analyse economic and management issues.
- Use economic and managerial decision-making methods.
Cross-disciplinary and linguistic skills:
- Construct, analyse and synthesise data for use.
- Express structured and reasoned thinking with a critical mind, both in writing and orally.
- Understand and express oneself in written and spoken English.
- Use standard digital tools.
- Develop a culture and openness to the world through various disciplines (law, sociology, second foreign language, etc.).
Pre-professional skills:
- Identify and situate professional fields in relation to the knowledge acquired in the specialisation.
- Characterise and promote one's identity, skills and professional project.
International
Opportunity to study at a university abroad through ERASMUS+ or bilateral cooperation for one or two semesters.
Capacities
350
Course venue
Your future career
L2 Economics and Management.
Study objectives
The Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Management (L1 and L2) aims to provide students with the fundamentals of economic analysis and management sciences, as well as the methodological tools necessary to understand how economies and organisations work.
It enables students to acquire solid knowledge in economics, management, accounting, mathematics and statistics, while developing their analytical and critical thinking skills and their ability to use quantitative tools. The programme also places great emphasis on cross-disciplinary skills, such as written and oral expression, the use of digital tools and the practice of English.
The quality of its teaching, pedagogical support and student involvement make it an effective programme that prepares students for further study in the third year of a Bachelor's degree and in a Master's degree in economics and management, as well as for gradual entry into the world of work in the fields of economics and management.
Major thematics of study
Introduction to economics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, introduction to business administration and management, general accounting, mathematics, statistics, English...
Calendar
Courses run from September to May.
Options
Introduction to sociology, social economics, history of economic thought, modern language 2 (German, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian), free EU.
Semester 1
| Courses | ECTS | CM | TD | TP |
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| Communiquer à l'écrit et à l'oral 1 | ||||
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Anglais 1
Revision of the basic structures of the language; introduction to business English with the help of a textbook that will be used for the first four semesters of the degree; development of the four skills (reading, listening, speaking and writing).
Teaching language ANGLAIS / ENGLISH | 3 | 18h | ||
| Données : mesurer et valider 1 | ||||
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Renforcement en mathématiques
College/high school calculus (from developing, reducing, factoring, equating, etc. to expressing one variable as a function of another)
Teaching language FRANÇAIS / FRENCH | 0.5 | 16h | ||
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Mathématiques 1
Function analysis tools for economics (study of functions of one variable or differential calculation of functions of several variables).
Teaching language FRANÇAIS / FRENCH | 4 | 24h | 16.5h | |
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Statistiques descriptives 1
Probability and random variables over a finite universe. Descriptive statistics with 1 and 2 variables.
Teaching language FRANÇAIS / FRENCH | 4 | 24h | 16.5h | |
| Concepts en sciences économiques : apprendre et analyser 1 | ||||
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Introduction à l'économie
Fundamental concepts, indicators and mechanisms of today's economics (marginal reasoning, opportunity cost, national accounting, macro-economic aggregates, trade-off representation, etc.), which will enable them to tackle the micro- and macro-economics courses given in the second semester with ease.
Teaching language FRANÇAIS / FRENCH | 6 | 48h | 16.5h | |
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Histoire des faits économiques
Presentation of the context and development of the greatest breakthrough in the economic history of mankind: the first Industrial Revolution, which took place in 17th-century Great Britain and gradually spread to other countries. This illustrates fundamental economic mechanisms (wage formation, the law of supply and demand, business incentives for innovation, market competition, protectionism or free trade, etc.).
Teaching language FRANÇAIS / FRENCH | 3 | 24h | ||
| Concepts en sciences de gestion : apprendre et analyser 1 | ||||
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Introduction à la gestion et au management
The main objective of this course is to discover the links between the different functions of a company.
Teaching language FRANÇAIS / FRENCH | 4 | 24h | 16.5h | |
| Développer une vision pluridisciplinaire | ||||
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Introduction au droit
The Introduction to Law course helps students understand the French legal system. It gives them a precise vision of the major texts and sources that govern their daily lives.
Teaching language FRANÇAIS / FRENCH | 2 | |||
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Langue vivante 2
| 2 | 16.5h | ||
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Introduction à la sociologie
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the discipline of sociology, with which economics and management interact and cooperate, but which is characterized by its own questions and modes of reasoning.
Teaching language FRANÇAIS / FRENCH | 2 | 18h | ||
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UE libre
| 2 |
Semester 2
| Courses | ECTS | CM | TD | TP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concepts en sciences économiques : apprendre et analyser 2 | ||||
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Microéconomie 1
Model the behavior of economic agents (consumers, companies, etc.) and their interactions. Study how a market operates under certain assumptions.
Teaching language FRANÇAIS / FRENCH | 4 | 27h | 15h | |
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Macroéconomie 1
This course introduces the main concepts and mechanisms that enable us to understand the functioning of the economy as a whole, as well as the role and effects of economic policies.
Teaching language FRANÇAIS / FRENCH | 4 | 27h | 15h | |
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Histoire de la pensée économique
The aim of the course is to present the major currents that have shaped the evolution of economic theories up to the present day. It starts with the pre-classical period (with a focus on the physiocrats and mercantilists) and continues through to the Keynesian and neoclassical schools of thought.
Teaching language FRANÇAIS / FRENCH | 3 | 24h | ||
| Concepts en sciences de gestion : apprendre et analyser 2 | ||||
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Enjeux du management des organisations
Understand the characteristics of today's organizational environment (economic, social, technological, ecological, risk, etc.) and the relationships between organizations and their stakeholders.
Teaching language FRANÇAIS / FRENCH | 4 | 24h | 16.5h | |
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Comptabilité générale 1
Understand the fundamental principles of accounting. Learn to master accounting techniques by applying the rules of the general chart of accounts.
Teaching language FRANÇAIS / FRENCH | 4 | 24h | 16.5h | |
| Comminiquer à l'écrit et à l'oral | ||||
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Méthode de travail et projet professionnel
This course is designed to support L1 students by providing them with concrete methodological tools for academic success and career orientation.
Teaching language FRANÇAIS / FRENCH | 0.5 | 20.5h | 7.5h | 1h |
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Anglais 2
Introduction to business English with the help of a textbook to be used over the first four semesters of the degree; development of the four skills (reading, listening, speaking and writing).
Teaching language ANGLAIS / ENGLISH | 3 | 18h | ||
| Données : mesurer et valider 2 | ||||
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Mathématiques 2
Acquire basic notions of limits, comparisons of functions, limited developments, calculation of integrals, study of sequences.
Teaching language FRANÇAIS / FRENCH | 3.5 | 18h | 16.5h | |
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Statistiques decsriptives 2
Probability calculations with classical discrete and continuous laws, double discrete variables
Teaching language FRANÇAIS / FRENCH | 3.5 | 18h | 16.5h | |
| Developper une vision pluridisciplinaire 2 | ||||
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Langue vivante 2
| 2 | 16.5h | ||
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Economie sociale
Discover the social economy in its extended version, which covers all the social dimensions of the economy, from the social and solidarity economy to the social state and corporate social relations.
Teaching language FRANÇAIS / FRENCH | 2 | 18h | ||
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UE libre
| 2 |