QTEM Incoming

Do you wish to develop the most cutting-edge skills in Business Analytics in prestigious international institutions?

Then QTEM programme is made for you !

Your main contacts

QTEM International Office Coordinator

Dr. Lamiae Benhayoun

Associate professor
Program Manager, Master in Business Analytics, E-learning manager
E-mail: lamiae.benhayoun@uir.ac.ma

Academic
Director

Dr. Ahmed Ennasri

Associate Dean of Programs
Program Manager, Programme Grande Ecole
E-mail: ahmed.ennasri@uir.ac.ma

Postal address	Université Internationale de Rabat Technopolis Rabat-Shore Rocade Rabat-Salé, 11100, Sala Al Jadida, Morocco
Website	https://rbs.uir.ac.ma/
Contact number	+212 (0)5 30 10 30 00
Contact e-mail	rbs.info@uir.ac.ma
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Rabat Business School (RBS)

Facts and figures

2200 students
350 international students from 46 countries
Over 170 academic partners and 120 corporate partners
More than 60 full-time professors (including 65% international faculty representing 21 different nationalities)
Over 115 scientific publications per year, making RBS the number one business school in Africa in terms of research output
2 Bachelors programs and 8 Master degrees
25 Executive programs and one Executive MBA

RBS holds the following distinctions

AACSB accredited, a recognition received by only 5% of business schools worldwide.
Ranked in the top 100 by the Financial Times, the most trusted international ranking.
Consistently ranked in the prestigious QS World University Rankings for the second consecutive year.
Only QTEM member from Africa and MENA

Why you should do your exchange at this institution?

Advanced multidisciplinary courses
Unique immersive cultural experience with trips, visits and workshops
Outstanding modern campus
Coaching for Portfolio creation
Assistance for job insertion
Attendance of professional events
Visits to companies

Exchange Information

Websites

The Student International Mobility Service website should answer most of the general questions your exchange students can have. Therefore, we strongly recommend them to read it carefully. We remain available for any further questions.

https://rbs.uir.ac.ma/international/

https://rbs.uir.ac.ma/qtem/

Information package

Accepted incoming students will receive by email an information package including

Acceptance letter
Information on Visa
Logistics’ hints
Main contacts
Courses’ lists
Information on the integration week
Administrative procedures

Integration week

An orientation week is organized for all RBS exchange students before the beginning of the courses. The dates will be communicated within the information package to be sent to incoming students.

The integration week consists of:

Welcome meeting and Academic Coordinator’s meeting
Welcome drink
Arrival on-boarding
Help on logistics
Campus services
Introduction to key intermediaries
Social activities by the students’ clubs
Immersive cultural activities
Cities’ tours
Museums’ visits
Calligraphy/Cooking workshops

A Pre-arrival orientation is organized online. It informs students on

Things to bring
International administrative procedures

Calendar of Rabat Business School (tbc)

For incoming students who will join a 1st year Master degree

Fall Semester:

Oct 19: Start of the academic year

Oct 23: First class

Dec 25 to Jan 1: Holidays

Jan 20: End of class

Jan 29 to Feb 3 : Exams

June 24 to June 29: Make up exams

Spring Semester:

Feb 5 to Feb 10: Holidays

Feb 12: First class

May 4: End of class

May 13 to May 18: Exams

July 1 to July 6: Make up exams

For incoming students who will join a 2nd year Master degree

Fall Semester:

Sept 14: Start of the academic year

Sept 14: First class

Dec 2: End of class

Dec 11 to Dec 23: Exams

Dec 25 to Jan 1: Holidays

June 24 to June 29: Make up exams

Spring Semester (Internship):

Jan 2 to May 31: Internship period

May 31: Deadline for submitting internship report and graduating project

June 10 to June 22: Defense

Jul 31: Make up for submitting graduating project

Sept 2 to Sept 7: Make up defense

Administrative procedures

Nominations

Exchange students’ nominations have to be sent by the home university coordinator by email to lamiae.benhayoun@uir.ac.ma

Students’ data required

last name
first name
gender (M/F)
e-mail address
exchange period: (Fall/Spring)
originating program in the home university
number of ECTS already completed during the year in the field of managements and economics

Nominations deadlines

For students incoming in the Fall semester: May 15
For students incoming in the Spring semester: Oct 15

Registrations

To the school: To be done online (no other form of registration is accepted)
To the courses: To be coordinated with the IOC of the host university (See rules below)

Programme

Language requirements

UIR-RBS is mainly a French-speaking university. But we offer all of our Master courses in English.

Although we do not require any language certificate, we strongly recommend that exchange students coming to RBS should acquire at least an intermediate (B2) level of English prior to their arrival.

Free French lessons not credited can be proposed for integration purposes under request.

Courses’ rules

We expect our exchange students to have sucessfully completed at least 6 semesters of university studies.

Courses Exchange students are requested to register to 1 course at least and maximum 30 ECTS. The exact number of courses or ECTS credits has to be determined by the home institution.

Students are recommended to select at least 75% of their courses within a same Master degree among the following:

Master in Business Analytics
Master in International Finance
Master in Supply Chain Management
Programme Grande Ecole

For the remaining 25%, it is possible to combine modules from the remaining Master degree.

List of top QTEM courses

- Social Network Analysis
- Data Governance & Ethics
- Optimization for Management Decisions
- Fintech & Bloomberg Trading
- Financial markets and portfolio management
- Operational Excellence
- Transportation & Physical Distribution Management
- Database for Direct Marketing & E-CRM
- Blockchain and its applications
- UX analytics
- Business Intelligence
- Dataviz & communication

Exams

Exchange students will take their exams in the same conditions as regular students
Exchange students are NOT authorized to organize their exams individually with their Professors
All students are expected to take their exams during the official exams periods (See calendar in the previous sections)

Results

The official transcripts of records will be available for the exchange students to download from their “MyUIR” portal after the organization of the jury (dates tbc). No original will be automatically sent, unless required by the home university.