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Lifelong education for students and working professionals
The Cnam enables students :
- to improve their skills
- to keep ahead developments in each field
- to follow a complement training
- to get a degree or recognized qualifications.
2 departments
- Management and social sciences applied to firms
- Industrial sciences, computer technics
Made-to-measure programmes for everyone
The Cnam offers a wide range of training programmes,from undergraduate to graduate through to doctoral levels. It delivers professional certificates of French national standards (RNCP), and universally recognised degrees in line with the Bologna scheme: Bachelor, Master and Doctorate
Training programmes are open to everyone: employees, freelance workers or job-seekers, irrespective of qualifications, and at any stage in their working lives, across the Cnam network.
Each person has the opportunity to construct an individual "made-to-measure" programme and to train at a pace suited to personal circumstances.
The International Institute of Management (IIM /Cnam)
- MBA Manager d'entreprise program (dual title degree in English and in French)
- Masters in Management
1 in 5 students is trained by distance-learning programmes
To meet the growing demand from people wishing to learn independently, at home or in the workplace, the Cnam is significantly increasing the number of open and distance learning options (internet, e-training, etc.). Currently, there are 50% of distance-learning programmes on offer .
Validation of knowledge
The Cnam has significant expertise in the validation of personal attainments and experience. In order to meet the many requests it receives, the Cnam has set up a network of 70 VAE (validation of life and work experience, from its French acronym) advisors, 8 juries per year and a distance-learning guidance website
Internal and external training programmes
The Cnam provides companies, organisations and local government agencies with training programmes designed to help fulfil the needs of their employees and therefore improve their competitiveness and efficiency. Among other services, it offers companies and organisations 550 training programmes covering various fields of business, engineering and human sciences. The Cnam can also provide companies with "made-to-measure" training programmes adapted to their training environment and/or to their human resources strategies.
Who can integrate Cnam?
- Job-seekers
- Employees
- Craftsmen
- Freelance workers
- With or without academic diploma
- Registration on a private basis or throughout a company
Key figures
100,000 adults per years:
1500 specific sessions
Day-time and in-house training for firms or institutions
- 75 % employees
- 13 % experienced job seekers
- 3 % first job seekers
- 9 % students and others
1350 modular programs matching 350 job types giving European credits (ECTS) for certifications and diplomas
1500 specific sessions
Day-time and in-house training for firms or institutions
Flexibility
- Evening or day-time lectures, including Saturdays
- Part time or full-time ; as individual or «on the job»
- Official recognition of professional experience : credits issued from experience
- Competence referential; competence analysis process
- Individual tutorial
- Network of associated centers all over France, overseas and abroad (Lebanon, Romania, Spain ...)
- E-learning
