A turning point in the students' professional development policy, concentration puts them in a process of a rapid professional integration.
These professional concentrations are created with the help of partner companies and have to be approved every year by a council of judges. This council is designed to evaluate the performance of each concentration with regard to starting a career.
Concentration students are selected at the beginning of the Graduate programme on the basis of:
- ability
- profile
- work experience (at least 9 consecutive months)
- results required for the future careers
Concentrations are followed in lessons and seminars over a period of not less than 2 months.
For the 2002/2003 academic year, Montpellier ESC proposes 23 professional concentrations :
- Auditing
- International wine trade
- Consultancy in deployment of enterprise resource programs - ERP consultant
- Management control
- Business creation and development
- Credit and customer cycle management
- Doing business with Arab and/or islamic Worlds
- Finance
Over and above the DESCM, this concentration leads to the University of Montpellier 1 DESS in European financial management.
- Computing and telecommunication products and services engineering
- International business
- Logistics of supply chain management
- Law of Health Establishements
- Buying and quality management
- Human resources skills management
- Management of Non-Governmental Organisations
- Net Economy project management
- Marketing
- Banking
This concentration is acquired through vocational training and, over and above the DESCM, leads to the ITB diploma (Institut Technique Bancaire - Institute of Banking Techniques)