CEMS FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
To help you quickly find answers to your most common questions, we collected the most frequently asked questions and provided the most applicable answers below. If you still can not find the answer to what you are looking for, please contact us.
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How do I apply for the CEMS programme?
The CEMS MIM Programme is open to students enrolled in a Master’s programme in Business Administration, Management or Economics, or other specialized master programmes at one of the CEMS member schools or universities. More details are available on the how to apply page. If you have any questions concerning a specific school, you can contact the programme manager listed on the school page from the school list.
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Is it possible to apply to the CEMS MIM programme at more than one school?
Yes, it is possible to apply to several CEMS MIM programmes at different schools, however, be aware that there may be fees involved when applying.
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What financial aid is available for the CEMS MIM?
There is currently no global scholarship programme within CEMS, however, here is a list of some financial aid programmes available at local schools. To find out more, please contact the CEMS MIM Programme Manager at your school of choice.
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How much does the CEMS MIM tuition cost?
There is no tuition fee to join the CEMS MIM Programme, only a Student Registration and Handling Fee of 100 EUR to support central services provided by CEMS (IT, graduation), in some cases the school pays this fee as well. As you must be enrolled in a Master’s programme at a CEMS member school to join the CEMS MIM, there may be a tuition fee for the local master degree programme. Tuition fees vary based on the school you choose to attend, please contact the Programme Manager for that school to know more. You can find the contact information for the local Programme Manager on the school pages from the school list.
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How can I pay the CEMS Student Registration and Handling Fee?
If you have not yet paid your student fee, log into your CEMS student portal and click on the Student Registration and Handling Fee message under “announcements” with the instructions and links guiding you on how to pay the fee.
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How do I select where I want to do my semester(s) abroad?
Term abroad selection is determined by the home school. Once you are selected as a CEMS student, please ask your home school Programme Manager and they will guide you through the process.
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Where can students view their progress/how many ECTS they still need?
You can find information regarding your academic progress by logging into the CEMS Portal and clicking on the tab “My Progress” or clicking on this link while logged in.
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How many credits do students have to obtain per semester?
A minimum of 24 ECTS must be validated to pass a semester. If not passed, the student is automatically disqualified from the CEMS Programme. A maximum of 37.5 ECTS can be validated by semester.
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What is a Global Online Elective course?
The CEMS Global Online Elective course offering is aimed at providing students access to courses across the alliance to add to their CEMS experience. This offer is uniquely available for current class year students.
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What is a Hard Skills course?
Students have to fulfill a minimum of 5 ECTS in elective courses focusing on hard skills during the CEMS MIM Programme . Schools offer courses in different domains.
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What is a CEMS Skill Seminar?
CEMS Skill Seminars are delivered as interactive class sessions and integrated into the programme to help students to develop their soft skills.
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What is a CEMS Block Seminar?
The CEMS Block Seminar is a one-week course that takes place at the beginning of Term 1 with professors and students from various CEMS institutions. As the Block Seminar is a mandatory element of the programme that can under no circumstances be postponed & class attendance is mandatory. It is the student’s responsibility to make sure that they will be able to attend a block seminar at the beginning of the programme. The Block Seminar may have a fee, so please check with the Programme Manager before applying.
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How is the CEMS MIM ranked?
The CEMS MIM is ranked in the top 15 of both the QS and The Economist MiM rankings.
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Is CEMS accredited?
CEMS has associate membership with AACSB & EQUIS. All CEMS Academic Partners are accredited, please see individual schools for specific accreditation information.
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How does CEMS assure quality?
CEMS conducts regular internal quality reviews of every CEMS MIM programme offered by a CEMS Academic Partner to ensure the highest possible quality experience for CEMS students around the world.
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What are the requirements to graduate from the CEMS MIM programme?
To graduate, the CEMS student must have successfully fulfilled all obligatory components for the CEMS MIM and her/his home degree. You can find more information on the CEMS grading & graduation page.
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What Student Organizations are available?
The CEMS Global Alliance has a highly energetic student body that impacts student life across the world. CEMS students are represented centrally by the Student Board (SB) with one representative from each school, while local activities are animated via CEMS Clubs (CC). To find out more about local CC activities or learn who is your current SB representative, log into your CEMS Portal. CEMS Clubs events will appear under “announcements” and the “My Schools” tab contains information regarding who are the current Student Board members and local CEMS Club presence. If you would like to join your local CC or become part of the SB, reach out to your school’s Programme Manager to learn more. You can find the contact information for the local Programme Manager on the school pages from the school list. More details are also available on the Student Life page.
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What is the Student Board?
The Student Board is the voice of CEMS students within the CEMS Global Alliance. The Student Board consists of one representative from each of the member schools, with a mission to enhance the CEMS experience for students and acting as the official voice of CEMS students, representing their interests before the Academic, Corporate and Administrative stakeholders of the CEMS Alliance. More details are available on the Student Life page.
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Who is my CEMS Student Board Representative?
Every CEMS member school has one representative on the CEMS Student Board per school. To find out who is your current representative, log into your CEMS Portal and click on My Schools. Under Student Life, you will find the list of Student Board members.
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How can I reach out to the CEMS Student Board?
If you have any questions for the CEMS Student Board, you can contact them via studentboard@cemsmail.org
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What is a CEMS Club?
Each school has a CEMS Club, run by CEMS students, which animates student life through local events and activities involving CEMS alumni and Corporate/Social Partners, supporting both home school students and incoming students to make the most of their local experience. More details are available on the Student Life page.
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How can I get in contact with a specific CEMS Club?
If you would like to get in touch with a specific CEMS Club, please contact the local Programme Manager for that club
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How does a company become a CEMS Corporate Partner?
Since its foundation, CEMS has forged partnerships with leading companies that share an interest in the development of international management education and recruitment. Companies receive a number of benefits through their partnership with CEMS.
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What is the CEMS Corporate Partnership?
CEMS was built on the vision of creating a bridge between the academic and corporate worlds. Since its creation in 1988, CEMS member schools have worked alongside industry in providing expertise, insight and vision for all aspects of programme development, implementation and support. Today, over 70 world-renowned companies operate in a variety of sectors with students, alumni and faculty as a part of this global business network. If you would like your company to join CEMS as a Corporate Partner, contact us.
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I am working at one of CEMS 70+ Corporate Partners. Is there any way I can know if other CEMSies are working for the same company?
We are establishing the CEMS Corporate Ambassador Groups among our 70+ corporate partners. Contact us if you would be interested in leading a CP Ambassador group at alumni@cems.org.
In addition, we created lists of CEMSies working at Corporate Partners. If you would like to learn more, please contact corporatepartners@cems.org
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How do I manage my cemsmail address?
Your cemsmail address is a redirection toward the mailbox you provided when you joined the CEMS Alliance.
If you would like to change the redirection:
- You can change your destination address via the CEMS Portal in the personal e-mail field.
- Messages sent to the CEMS email address are redirected towards this email address. Any updates may take up to 1 hour to complete. Your @cemsmail.org email address is a 'forwarding address' only, which means that there is no “inbox” to check your messages. Instead, all messages sent to your @cemsmail.org address will be automatically forwarded to your chosen destination address. Your @cemsmail address is listed in "CEMS Portal >> CEMS Life"
If you are not receiving mail, it is possible that :
- Your mailbox hosting platform may have strong anti-spam filters, so be sure to check your spam folders and mark these messages as safe. To make sure that you do not miss CEMS MIM related mailing, you should add the following emails to your mail contacts : mailing@cems.org, mailing-mim@cems.org, mailing-cp@cems.org, mailing-cf@cems.org, mailing-ae@cems.org, cems@cems.org, welcome@cems.org, info@cems.org, studentfee@cems.org
- A wrong address was used as the target of your cemsmail redirection. Make sure that your mail tool is aware of your cemsmail address. For instance, in Gmail, you have go to "Settings >> Accounts and import >> Send mail as" (and you declare your cemsmail address as "not an alias")
- If you send a mail from your gmail account to your own cemsmail address, you will not see that message in your inbox, as it is already in your gmail sent box. To to do a test, ask a friend to send you an email from a different mailbox. Also note that some mailboxes will simply not work properly with our redirection system (eg. hotmail).
If you still have some issues after taking those information into account, make sure to provide the following information when contacting the Global Office
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How do I change my password ?
Use the Lost Password tool at https://www.cems.org/lostpassword. To be able to use the Lost Password tool, you need to have access to the mailbox you attached to your cems.org account when you joined CEMS. If you do not have access to that mailbox please contact us.
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How do I regain access to my CEMS Portal and/or CEMS Alumni Platform?
Step 1: Go to https://www.cems.org/lostpassword
Step 2: You will receive a time sensitive link to reset your password via email (check spam messages). If the email you use has not been previously listed in your CEMS profile, then an email from the Alumni Team will be sent to confirm your identity, we will need a scan of one of the following:
a valid ID (i.e. passport, international identity card, etc.)
CEMS MIM Certificate
Once your identity has been verified and your new email has been added to your profile, you will receive an email to reset your password. After you have chosen a new password, you may access the CEMS Alumni Platform.
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How do I remove my profile or CV from the CEMS CV database?
Step 1: Log onto your CEMS Portal and select "Click here to update my CV." on this link. If you do not see "Click here to update my CV", it means that either you haven't created a CEMS CV or that you already detached it from the CEMS database.
Step 2: You will be transferred to the CV management platform DoYouBuzz. You Click on "Account" (top right) then "Manage my account" then "Delete my account."
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How do I ensure my account is protected from online threats?
If you or anyone you know has received suspicious emails, please do not open any attachments, click on any links or provide any personal data or payments. Report these emails as spam in your mailing tool and share this information with the police as this is a crime in most countries in which CEMS operates. As a gentle reminder, please ensure to regularly change your CEMS password as a security measure.
Here are some password creation tips:
Your new password should be a minimum of 8 characters, which should contain at least 1 uppercase letter, 1 number, 1 symbol/special character, 1 lowercase letter
Do not use your old password, your name or something easily associated with you and do not use your CEMS password with other accountsWe are constantly striving to improve our security, so if you would like to take one further step, we would be grateful if you could check if the mail you received travelled through the CEMS SMTP/email server. If you find the following in the mail header, please share this with us and we can improve our anti-spam filtering criteria:
Received: from mail.cems.org (brown.nexen.net. [89.31.146.190])
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Received: by mail.cems.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id C912CA5F; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:57:16 +0100 (CET)If you do not see this, then the mailing is not coming from the CEMS system. If you have any further questions, please contact us.
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Now that I have graduated from CEMS, how can I continue to be involved in the CEMS Community as an alumni?
There are several ways you can stay in touch with the CEMS community and other CEMSies after graduating.
- Donate to support the CEMS Alumni Community.
- Join one or several of our local chapters or global groups around the globe
- Participate in 200+ social & professional events worldwide (find event calendar or join the biggest CEMS event of the year: the CEMS Annual Events)
- Become a CEMS alumni mentor (in only 3 minutes) to provide your professional experience to CEMS students or other CEMS alumni on the CEMS Mentoring Platform. Alternatively, you can also sign in with your cemsmail and request career consultation from 1200+ CEMS alumni advisors.
- Become a CEMS alumni mentor locally through the SAMP (Student & Alumni Mentoring Program). This program matches students and alumni to provide support and advice on studies, internships, exchange semesters, applications or career choices locally. It also can create new friendships and a unique long time relationship among the participants.Inquire with your local CEMS school today.
- Provide a webinar or panel discussion to fellow CEMS alumni and/or students.
- Offer a Business Project or Skills Seminar.
- Provide a company visit to fellow alumni or students.
- Provide an alumni interview or podcast.
- Connect with fellow alumni: https://www.cemsalumni.net/page/networking
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Where can I find the CEMS Alumni Toolkit?
You can find the toolkit here (must be logged into the CEMS Alumni Platform to access)
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How do I find my CEMS MIM Certificate?
You can download a copy of your certificate here (must be logged into the CEMS Alumni Platform to access)
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How can I make a donation to the CEMS Alumni Association?
Please go on this link for more information.
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How do I apply for CAA membership?
You can apply for CAA member ship by following this link