Being the first and only English-speaking engineering school offering a diploma in Renewable Energies in Tunisia, MedTech provides you with plenty of opportunities to sharpen your skills and mind. Studying with new friends and building teamwork skills makes it the most valuable experience you will ever have. Also, having a close relationship with brilliant professors contributes significantly to your knowledge base. Indeed, the quality of a learning environment makes a difference by introducing you to diversified professional paths and helping you advance in your future life and career.  I had the privilege to conduct my capstone project at the University of Waterloo in Canada, which is a partner of Medtech. The relevant skills I acquired will prepare me for the journey ahead. Currently, I am pursuing a Master of Science degree entitled “Engineers for Smart Cities” at Institut Méditerranéen du Risque de l’Environnement et du Développement Durable (IMREDD) in Nice, France. I owe my success to MedTech and I feel proud to be alumni of the Mediterranean Institute of Technology.

The undergraduate program at the Mediterranean School of Business has given me so much more than I expected when I first started it in 2016. I’ve learned so much from its highly dedicated and supportive professors. I believe that the skills and knowledge I acquired are the keys to a successful career. During my final year, I went on an exchange semester to IE Business School, Madrid which was an eye-opening experience. Overall, I can say that I am grateful to MSB for providing a wonderful learning environment and a wide range of opportunities for growth.

I am a Ph.D. student in Sustainable Energy Systems at FEUP (Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto). This doctoral program is in partnership with MIT Portugal. I am interested in conducting my thesis in smart charging for EV (Electric Vehicle) aggregation. Also, I am a research scholar in a grant project funded by FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) in collaboration with Bosch. This project called “Safe Cities” aims to provide an IoT Ecosystem for modern urban societies; to meet their security needs, privacy, comfort, and efficiency. 

I have graduated from MedTech in 2019 with a major in Computer Systems Engineering. The university first gave me the opportunity to accomplish my capstone project at the University of Coimbra, which opened me the doors to pursue my education in Portugal. During the 5 years at MedTech, we had a lot of common classes and projects where there is a strong collaboration between students from the 3 different majors (Renewable Energy, Software and Computer Systems engineering), which gave me the idea to apply my computer systems knowledge in energy sustainability. Diversity of the people in SMU campus is another aspect that helped me a lot with the integration phase in all my abroad experiences. Besides the academic evolution, I had the chance to work 1 year as a librarian and a semester as a lab instructor. I am so grateful for the whole experience, especially the connections that I developed with students, staff, and faculty.

Medtech is one of my best life experiences.

During my software engineering curriculum, I not only gathered a strong technical skills background but also learned various soft skills including problem solving, public speaking, technical English communication and project management.

I’ve met amazing people and learned a lot from high level professors that participated in my career growth.

Now I am a Software engineer, data scientist at Think-it (A Tech Tuniso-german company based in Tunis that works with international companies), and I can say that my three years of engineering at MedTech have a huge impact on what I achieved until now. 

I am also a teaching assistant at Medtech, I manage a team at Think-it and worked on different projects in machine learning, Natural Language Processing and Computer vision fields.

I am proud of who I became and grateful for what I learned from Medtech. 

I encourage anyone who would like to join the university and take advantage of this great learning opportunity. 

I remember when I decided to follow Business studies at the Mediterranean School of Business, A journey full of opportunities that developed my knowledge within the business field and forged my personality to become a better version of me. I am pleased to announce that I got a scholarship from MSB’s partner, IESEG Business school, for the Grande Ecole master’s program. This new adventure will boost my enthusiasm to develop a professional network through interaction with international students and exchanging knowledge to reach a higher level of added value. 

" I took this time to reflect on my work in the alumni association and I realized the impact it had on my personal growth and professionalism as well. On a professional aspect, I became more self-confident about the importance of cultivating a network of alumni and more aware of the efforts conducted by SMU into cultivating and uniting us. As a personal aspect, It helped keep contact with old alumni and get inspired by their paths and be more confident with my engagements. My time in the association has enhanced many skills such as time management, analysis, and communication skills and I am thankful for the chance I had to work closely with the members of the board and especially with the career center members, who were very helpful and guided me in every step."

I enrolled in the UPM program in 2014 after graduating with a license in management at MSB. This was an obvious choice for me as I wanted to pursue a career in consulting in Europe and the UPM program at MSB was the most complete program to answer my needs.  My time at MSB as a master's student in business analytics and Big Data marked a tipping point in my professional career. My specific aim was to learn how to make sense of and derive intelligence from the increasing amounts of data that businesses hold about their operations and customers. I wanted to understand and learn about the latest trends available to tackle contemporary business challenges. Usefully, MSB additionally provides soft skills-related courses such as public speaking and professional presentations to complement the technical skills taught in the core subjects. At the same time, the class environment was genuinely enjoyable, and the 2 years were valuable and rewarding experiences at a personal level. Today, 4 years after graduating from MSB, I can confirm that choosing the MSB UPM program was the right decision as I am currently holding a project manager position working with digitalization projects throughout Europe. 

I had my baccalaureate in the mathematics section in 2014 with 14.5. the I joined MedTech for engineering studies. After my 2 years of preparatory cycle, I’ve got specialized in Renewable energy. Through a teaching method based on continuous monitoring, the interaction between faculties and students, and the multitude of projects, we have acquired in depth theoretical and practical training. Our training includes a multitude of versatile disciplines such as science, computer science, economics, communication and soft skills. Being also the first English-speaking University in Tunisia with recognized worldwide accreditations, this has facilitated international mobility. So, through the university network and our faculties, I was able to get a Graduation Project in Rostock in Germany, within the company Windrad engineering. My capstone project focused on the development of a new type of wind turbine. Indeed, it was carried out in collaboration with the University of Rostock and funded by the Federal Ministry of Economy and Energy. The autonomy in the work and the spirit of observation developed at MedTech allowed me to excel in the final year project. I was then accepted for an excellence scholarship to start a PHD on the same subject. Following the Covid19 pandemic, I started my online lessons, waiting for the situation to stabilize so that I could go back to my home country.

"I had the opportunity to pass my senior year summer internship at DXC technology. 

While all my previous experiences were in startups, I chose DXC because it is an English-speaking company, and a multinational corporation. During that summer internship, I was very lucky to work on two projects, with multiple teams. This gave me a feeling of what working in a big company entails and helped me expand my skillset outside what I have seen and learned in Medtech. Now that I am doing my capstone project with DXC as well, the experience is a little different. I am working with an international team, which has been a great chance for me to work on my interpersonal skills.  So far, every day, I have been putting more and more of the theories I have learned during my five years in Medtech to practice, from data structures and algorithms to project management."

i am Chayma Fourati, final year software engineering student, currently doing my end of studies internship in the artificial intelligence field. in July 2019, i had the opportunity of having a summer internship in the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC) at dei: Departamento de Engenharia Informática Thanks to the collaboration of MEDtech with the university of coimbra. This internship was an important step in my path, where i had an introduction to the artificial intelligence field that helped me shape my ideas. The courses i had in MEDtech were also up to date, which also contributed to having such important opportunities.

My name is Fedi Hachicha, and I am a Computer Systems Engineer who graduated from Medtech in October 2019. During my five years of studies at MedTech, I gained a lot of technical knowledge and soft skills. The high-quality courses offered by the university, along with the help and creativity of our professors, inspired me to be a Teacher Assistant (TA) even before my graduation. Moreover, student life at the Campus was amazing, since events were organized weekly to entertain students. As an engineer, I was assigned multiple times a TA position in Advanced Digital Systems and Numerical Methods, and I worked as a robotic/electrical engineer. Currently, I am pursuing an Interdisciplinary and Innovative Engineering master's degree at UPC, and I am willing to enlarge my knowledge of data science to apply it in various domains in the future.

I am currently enrolled in a master’s program at INSA business school in Barcelona, Spain.

 Earning a bachelor’s degree from the Mediterranean school of business opened the doors for international studies thanks to its 100% English curriculum, with English being the business language. The background of MSB’s students is very rich in terms of material studied; finance, management, marketing, entrepreneurial courses, history …  which in return, in addition to the international reach, gave me a wider range of fields to choose from. Some graduates choose to pursue master’s studies, others to start working, I chose both. 

I chose a less heavy master’s program, night hours, so that I can start my long-term internship here in Barcelona. Going through many interviews, I found myself able to discuss technical terms with employers and to show my background in the skills required for the positions. 

The effort exerted by SMU in offering internship opportunities to students via email is important and beneficial because professional experience is what is going to make a difference between one graduate and another when being recruited.

« I was enrolled in the UPM program at MSB and graduated in 2019 with a diploma in Business Administration, majoring in Finance. Afterwards, I decided to pursue my master's in international business at IESEG School of Management, in Paris. Both experiences made me see things big and want to work in multiple and diverse environments and cultures (in this case, in multinational firms and more specifically, in a Big Four). As a result, now, I am doing a 6-month internship in Audit at Deloitte Luxembourg. 

Finally, I am very honored to represent SMU as well as my country abroad and I will be more than happy to share my experiences with current SMU students and help them in their future academic and career choices. »

I am currently finishing my Master of Science in Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at the Technical University of Berlin. I am also studying 1 semester at the Technical University of Valparaíso, Chile. In terms of professional experience, I have worked for 1 year and a half as a research assistant in International Economics at ESCP Berlin and am currently working as a Business Development Manager in a biotechnology company also in Berlin.

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I graduated from MSB in 2017 with a major in Finance. The university provided me with the support system and values that I needed to pursue a degree abroad. During those years, MSB was very open to new ideas such as the creation of the innovation lab and founding Enactus SMU in which I took part, respectively. We had the opportunity to work closely with the faculty members and professors and were always encouraged to initiate, create and dream. This enabled me to grow with an entrepreneurial mindset and a go-getter attitude that I have always kept and that are beneficial for my current job and master's degree. MSB also cared about my academic evolution and awarded me with a merit scholarship that encouraged me to work harder and dream bigger. It is a university that gives you the tools and the support system that you need in any working environment and studies. As a student you have to take advantage of them as they will enable you to face challenges and experiences that you might undertake at home or abroad."

I am Mohamed Rafik Triki, 22 years old, graduated from SMU in 2019, had an internship with the communication department in the administration of SMU which was very beneficial for me to know more about design, formal communication, retro-planning, events management etc... 

I went to the United States for the pursue of my path, I joined Stratford University in October 2019 and I just graduated this month with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, I missed some credits to apply for Master`s so I am done with it. 

I was rewarded 2 times for the last 2 terms with the President list award after having an "A" or 4.00 out of 4.00 as GPA. I also got certificates from LinkedIn e-learning platforms on social media, marketing and communication and business development topics. 

I am now going for Master`s degree in MIS Management Information Systems as I believe it is so important to combine both worlds, IT and Business together.

I also had a small career at work, I started with an administrative assistant of Stratford University as an international student worker and I worked on many projects in several offices regarding registrar, communication, student life, admission and international student offices.

Then, I was chosen to be the primary assistant of the president of one of 4 campuses that belongs to Stratford University where I was working on files that are highly classified, councils and heads of departments.  

Lately, I was assigned to take care of all the administrative and important projects for the Vice President of Stratford University head administration, collaborating with doctors, managers and highly skilled and experienced people who are very inspiring.

I also made a promotional video of the university talking about my experience as an international student here and working on many other campaigns and advertisements related to the organization I am working for.

People are impressed by the work I am doing as they express and announce it and I would always give credits to MSB for enhancing my growth as a person and for helping me have a profile that would add value to other organizations.

I am working on projects that would give opportunities to students from SMU to continue their studies here in the U.S.A and a partnership between both institutions.

In my last year as an undergraduate at MSB, I hesitated for a long time whether to continue studying or to jump in the professional world straight away. Through extended discussions with faculty members and many conferences held at MSB I finally find my path by creating my company. I just obtained the Startup Act Label, there is still a long way to go but I am optimistic and confident about the future.

One of the greatest choices of my life is choosing MSB for my License degree. 

From my school, I did not only gain technical skills, but also real-life experience.

MSB provided me with a very rich and qualified background that I am still using in my postgraduate studies in competition with students coming from different highly ranked universities worldwide. 

Now I am pursuing my Master Studies at one the best ranked schools in France thanks to the opportunities the MSB gave me with its different partners.

The Mediterranean School of Business offers a multidisciplinary program adapted to the dynamic economic environment in which a highly qualified teaching staff supports you in developing new skills and an administration that helps you whenever you need. 

Thanks to MSB, I was able to acquire new tools and techniques to adapt to a constantly changing market, which is an advantage that I consider precious and necessary to have an important place in the modern world. 

Having lived the MSB experience was for me an honor and an excellent opportunity to learn new things that help me today in my professional career.

From the beginning I knew that studying at MSB would be special. I have met wonderful people, friends, professors, and faculty. Many have had a great impact on me. Somehow my business administration studies have brought me closer to my arts. MSB taught me to navigate between my business side and my artistic side. To me both are equally important. Well maybe one is a bit more important than the other but hey, let’s just pretend for a while since this is going in SMU’s catalog. All jokes aside, my journey in MSB was fulfilling and fruitful. Therefore, as soon as I graduated, I was able to launch my carpooling startup and my first music album. 

I have been working in the SMU Alumni Association for a couple of months now and I am happy about what I have learned so far. I was able to meet and work with a few of the SMU Alumni about different projects and I have learned all about their success stories. Also, this allowed me to expand my network thanks to the fact that we work in a close collaboration with the Career center. I have worked on different projects, to engage and involve our Alumni in different ways. I was responsible of the implementation of effective communication and development activities, special events and projects, and Alumni Ambassadors programs. I also communicated and interacted with the SMU staff and students and most importantly Alumni to build a beneficial relation between different stakeholders. I worked also on improving the services provided by the Alumni Association and what helped me the most is being an Alumna as I was able to understand the needs and wants of the Alumni to strengthen the links between the SMU and the Alumni and to always keep them part of the SMU community. To finish off, the team/ staff that I worked with are very supportive and helpful.  They are always making all the resources needed available for the Association to make the work as smooth as possible.

" I graduated from MSB with a License in Management. I recently had the chance to launch my business, which is an e-commerce that encourages responsible shopping. I would never have been able to do so and achieve what i am achieving right now without the knowledge and skills I have acquired at university. The courses that we had were so relevant to real life and real issues, that somehow, I felt familiar with the solutions."

The MSB path was a turning point in my life. During my LBA, I was able to gain significant knowledge thanks to reel ongoing case studies, supporting me to shape a global perspective on current business practices and trends, as well as enhancing my soft skills thanks to interactive sessions and presentations. Apart from that, many conferences were organized internally on a weekly basis, helping me extend my network and learn fundamental tools on the professional life which I like to re-call the jungle (one of my favorite professor´ expression). In retrospect, I am grateful for joining MSB and SMU Community as it opened noteworthy doors for the future.

It all started back in September 2011 when I had the chance and the privilege to join MSB for a License degree. Three years later and after my graduation, I decided to pursue a Master in Operations Management. Just after completing all the required courses in the OM specialization, I caught a great opportunity to conduct a Research Internship in the United States and more specifically in the Industrial Engineering and Management Department of Oklahoma State University. Indeed, I wrote a chapter with the assistance of my adviser about Facilities Design and Planning related to different topics in Logistics and Supply Chain Management published in the book called The Routledge Companion to Production and Operations Management. 

Back in Tunisia, I was hired at Elektron, a multinational company, where I conducted my Final Internship Project. From the industry sector where I had the opportunity to apply what I have learned in Operations, I moved to Accompany Consulting. In this company, acting mainly in Banking and Insurance, I used my knowledge in Strategy, Operations, Technology, Risk, Control and Digitalization.

This second experience helped me narrow my interest: Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence coupled with Digital Transformation. Therefore, I moved to Devoteam, a consulting firm that delivers Innovative Technology services for businesses. 

The Mediterranean School of Business has had a huge impact on not only my education but also on my perspective on the business world. 

Through its detailed courses and the professors and staff guidance that had a major Impact through both the UPM program and its courses and my professional and even personal life. 

It has helped me throughout my career in starting my own business and maintaining it and reaching my career goals.

I graduated from MSB back in 2013. My last exam day was also my first workday!! I was recruited by Poulina Group Holding and went on to become, at 23 years old, one of their youngest managers, occupying the role of Regional Controller in China. I am now almost 31 and have already had a very rich and diversified international career which included a failed export company in Hong Kong. Absolutely no regrets and more laughter than tears! I earned another degree, in Diplomacy from the University of Birmingham, which I did for myself - food for the soul - all the while striving to earn more contracts and clients. This was before finally settling back in Tunisia and opening my strategic communications advisory firm Impart Peace, with clients spreading on 3 continents and ranging from governmental institutions to international organizations. I love every bit of what I do and having now established Impart Peace, I am venturing into new horizons and drawing on my business background through my MSB education which lays a good foundation and is facilitating and reassuring for my business partner. I cannot wait to share what we are working on when the time comes!

I want to express my sincere gratitude for all the efforts and contribution made by every MSB stuff member during those 3 academic years. I appreciated a lot the way in which you listen to your students and how serious you take feedbacks and claims. The MSB experience contributed heavily on developing my soft skills as well as my hard skills thanks to the highly qualified professors, that i will be always grateful ,by creating an atmosphere that push up students toward hardwork.

Again , thank you for the efforts and time spent to be part of the success of your students.

"Attending MSB has been my primary goal since high school as I aimed to pursue an international career in Management. Comparatively, MSB proved to be the best fit to achieve that goal. I must say that I was happily surprised by the first months in MSB, as I honestly did not expect that the quality of the courses and the pedagogy of the professors would be that high and that good. They exceeded my expectations!

Indeed, MSB is not your regular business school that exclusively offers management courses and sticks to the traditional teaching methods and syllabus content. It offers unique opportunities and experiences on several levels, namely volunteering work, summer school and exchanges programs, team building, creativity, and problem-solving experiences to name a few.

I am most grateful to many of the MSB professors that designed an impressive curriculum that later allowed me to qualify and apply to quality universities all over the world. I finally chose to pursue two master’s degrees in business administration and international relations in Geneva, Switzerland as I was deeply impacted by what we have learnt in some courses, namely human rights, ethics, and politics. Today, I work as an international consultant in research and market linkages in a United Nations/World Trade Organization trade development agency, for which I still use skills and lessons taught to me by MSB professors".

For my internship at NewTech International, I worked in the marketing department and led their rebranding project. 

Working at NewTech INT proved to be a great opportunity to be introduced to the world of Cyber and data Security.

Although my knowledge of the industry was limited, being part of the SMU allowed me to reach out to the existing network of engineering students, at the Mediterranean Institute of Technology. 

This network was especially helpful during the process of market research which enabled me to easily navigate the new flow of information received.

My marketing studies at MSB provided me with the basic knowledge to carry on this project. 

However, my communications with my professors served as a catalyzer for my progress, especially in the limited amount of time I had.

Part of my duties was to, also, provide the HR resources the project needed, from graphic designers to web developers, I was able to precure all the necessary profiles from the diverse pool that I acquired throughout the years.

During my time at NewTech INT, I had the opportunity to apply my academic and professional skillset. Along with becoming acquainted with the IT industry, which gave me a little taste of what I wanted to do in the future; to become a software developer. 

A combination of the latter as well as the different skills and experiences I acquired during my time at SMU fits the versatile professional I would like to become.

Having no professional experience previously, I was excited to start my first internship working with the marketing manager in Masmoudi distribution. As a foreign student this enabled me to be able to interact with many people in a professional work environment and to learn from them, discover areas in Tunisia that I have never imagined I would go to such as the public library of statistics. Even though I had no experience, my manager believed in my potential. This boosted my self confidence in terms of my work capabilities. That is all thanks to SMU’s career center. Even when I lacked certain skills, I sought help with my professors, and they were more than capable and willing to help me gain and polish those skills.

I had my last internship in a leading brokerage firm. The theoretical knowledge I acquired in MSB helped me understand the financial market and take part of the firm´s projects comfortably. The SMU career center offered me this opportunity, but more importantly, it made sure that I am constantly being assigned interesting tasks and it monitored my progress all through the internship.

First, I wanted to inform you that I will start my professional career next week in BIAT as a business analyst.

I had the honor of participating in your MSB' master's degree.

This training allowed me to consolidate my knowledge and confirm my passion for the field of Business Analytics. 

I wanted to thank you for your enriching contribution at the beginning of my career.

From now on, I am convinced to orient myself in the sector that suits me. 

I also thank you for the warm welcome I received, but also for your advice, your patience, and your professionalism. 

This experience was rewarding and will necessarily help me excel throughout my career.

Looking back on my experience as a master’s in Business Analytics student at MSB and currently as a Business/Data Analyst, I can see the program’s effect on my career on many levels. 

As analytics professionals, MSB did not only provide us with state-of-the-art knowledge and techniques transmitted from highly qualified national and international faculty, but also enabled us to become efficient team players, communicators, and future decision makers. 

MSB also pushes their students to tap more into their potential, by offering innovative pedagogical approaches and high-end facilities. 

I highly recommend partaking the MSB master’s degree and i believe that its benefits are to be reaped for far longer than the 2-year duration of the program.

I co-founded my startup, Vynd, while I was still a student at MSB, therefore I did my final studies’ project within my company. 

At that time, the idea of starting my own business at an early age seemed like a dead-end for some and courageous decision for others. But for me, it was the normal path I was born for.

Entrepreneurship has always been a passion for me. We live in a continuously changing environment where entrepreneurs are leading actors. They are in the front row to recognize gaps and make a drastic change. 

Through vision and perseverance, entrepreneurs enhance their environment, take initiatives, and help countries to thrive. They employ people and change their lives. They are leaders and hope providers. They are the wealth of every country and the pride of every nation. 

This belief has always been my mantra and the reason that kept me pushing forward. 

Today, Vynd became one of the most well-known and funded startups in Tunisia. 

It changed the lives of a hundred thousand users and helped hundreds of restaurants. 

It employs more than twenty dreamers and is planning to expand outside the country.

Being a young entrepreneur with a strong background is an advantage for every student who wants to start his own project. 

Having an undergraduate degree from HEC and a professional experience in different sectors, I chose MSB for a master's in business management to build my entrepreneurial career and shape my skills in terms of management and strategy, taking into consideration on how to create my own brand for a long-term reputation and be a leader in the market. 

Although the opportunities that I must work in consultancy and the finance market I chose to follow my high expectations and take my own path as what I have learned from MSB make me comfortable and confident.

My first project was launched hoping that others will be sooner realised. 

 I advise every young dreamer of a bright career to join MSB and live the experience, today the world needs entrepreneurs more than ever.

"MSB, a nice gateway for organized thinking"

Students' life at SMU made me stronger & took me a step ahead for being an independent consultant at PWC.

 I am thankful to all the teachers who supported us and corrected us throughout our Masters. 

Through the efforts made at MSB in terms of multiple projects tight deadlines, I was able to acquire strong time management, precious skill in the Consulting field.

Before this adventure, although I studied medical science and was an active physiotherapist, I came to notice that this field was not the right one for me as it did not fulfil my expectations. 

The moment I decided to enrol in SMU's MBM program, I doubtlessly knew it was a great challenge for me considering I come from a different background.

However, throughout this experience, I learned that one should face such challenges and grow with them. 

The MBM program made me acquire a big passion in the Finance field.

Its diverse courses and professors kept pushing my boundaries and encouraged me to devote myself to expanding my knowledge and skills, to strive for and reach all my goals and achieve what I really favour. 

MSB taught me that everything is possible if I believe, be dedicated, and work hard. 

Today I hold a master's degree in Finance, and I have never been proud of this choice.

I am proud to be an MSB alumna, I completed my master's degree in finance in 2017. 

The program was multifaceted, and I gained in-depth knowledge in the Equity/Valuation field, which is my current field of expertise. 

The curriculum and the teaching methods paved the way for a strong entry into the job market. 

I was offered a position at Oddo BHF before my graduation. 

The classes, the teamwork, and the different assignments contributed to mastering skills that are essential for any future job, especially in the finance discipline.

 MSB also offers opportunities of growth for its students, I was awarded a scholarship to sit for the CFA level 1 which I successfully passed. 

My two years at MSB have been enriching and will surely still be my anchor in any future professional endeavor.

I am an M2 student specializing in Corporate Finance, and last summer I had an internship within a brokerage firm. 

Despite the precision of the concepts we are studying, life is not that predictable, and it will throw you into many situations that you’ve never seen between the walls of a classroom. 

During the month of my internship, I have seen how the concepts that we learn to value firms and make predictions on stocks can be completely useless, and in those moments, I learned to adapt, ask busy people to mentor, learn new ways to do things and for me this is what internships are for.

That is why, in my opinion, the difference between an excellent financial analyst and a mediocre one is how one can deal with these improbable scenarios. 

The skill to do so comes from the quality and quantity of your professional experiences, experiences that SMU and the Career Center are constantly working to provide us.

I am Amina Saddoud an MSB Alumnus. 

My journey was fantastic and full of great experiences and challenges. The most enjoyable experience of this program is when I had the opportunity to meet with professionals, employers and highly qualified national and international professors.This gave me the chance to research many studies pertaining to various aspects of business. In addition to that, MSB opened me up to sheer breadth of the industry thanks to its large network and the internship opportunities that it offers. As an MSB student, I feel really comfortable while entering the professional world as I was really prepared for it during my studies. Mediterranean School of Business gave me a clear idea of what I would face when I apply for internships and graduate jobs.

In all Honestly, finding jobs and internships while being a student from Mediterranean School of Business is not that hard. The school’s reputation played a key role in allowing me to land the professional experiences that I had.

My summer internship at Deloitte is the best one I have had. Working in the financial advisory department was quite challenging for me but I had appropriate background knowledge acquired from MSB, as well as the support and guidance of the professors and faculty members. 

Other than technical knowledge, the school emphasizes soft skills and personality development, which really come in handy afterwards. 

I will forever cherish the wonderful memories I have had at MSB, as well as the endless lessons I have learnt. 

I am currently a Project Management Officer- PMO at ENTRAC International, subsidiary of EPPM (find link below), both based at LAC 2, since September. 

ENTRAC is an international engineering, trading and consultancy company, founded in 2006 (I guess) and is specialized in the exportation of machinery and equipment in the Oil & Gas fields.

EPPM (société mère) is an engineering, procurement, and project management company, dealing with projects in the Oil & Gas, Water Treatment, and Industry fields (mostly OIL projects). EPPM is a Tunisian company but grew to become a multinational, with numerous branches in Angola, Algeria… It is currently signing a deal with Saudi Arabian Oil Company ARAMCO. 

I also worked at a startup called Go My code, during the summer, right after my end-of-studies internship at KPMG.

Certainly, it was not easy to keep my breath for two and a half years without holidays, neither to study something that totally turns from my first field of work and finally to study English while being French speaking in the first place. 

But success is always proof of will, ambition and perseverance. 

The result is more than a diploma to add to my CV. 

I have acquired new knowledge, skills, and qualities. 

I have made friends for life and know teachers from all over the world with a lot of knowledge and am ready to help at any time. 

I cannot believe that this journey has ended, and another chapter of my life emerged. 

Founding my own startup and applying what I learnt was a challenge that I am taking till now.

I feel very proud to be one of the MSB family. 

Over the last two years MSB gave me an incredible amount of knowledge:  management foundation, Business areas like finance, marketing and a deep learning in Supply chain and operations managements. 

I also developed leadership and communication skills.

Thanks to this master's, I managed to get a new position in my company to apply all what I learned and contribute to the continuous improvement of my company.

I was able to obtain leadership skills which allowed me to become the entrepreneur I always wanted to be and pushed me to take risks.

Having the will to always undertake new responsibilities, I grew to value challenges.

Even though I had to face obstacles that taught me not to give up, I learned to adapt and change my course of actions thus, MSB has positively impacted me to develop my entrepreneurial skills and mindset through the enriching academic curriculum.

As a result, I have become self-employed, and I have developed my own projects.

MSB is not just a simple business school where you are prepared to the professional world and benefit from a great curriculum.  

It is an experience of a lifetime that opens the doors of success to its students and makes them adapt in a constantly changing environment.  

My journey with MSB lasted 5 full years starting with a license in Business Administration, engaging in as a master’s degree in finance to close the adventure with a unique research paper publication in the Journal of Finance and Accounting.  

At MSB, you acquire soft skills, you experience self-development, and you develop your creativity and team spirit in unexpected ways.  

This enabled me to take an impactful step in the consulting world, where I am gaining expertise day after day at WEVIOO.  

If you are turned towards the future, take the direction of MSB.

When I reflect on my five years in the Mediterranean School of Business (Undergraduate and MBM program), I conclude that this experience prepared me well to face the business world, and to prepare for my professional path.        

As expected, the very good professors teaching us and the exclusive culture of leadership, entrepreneurship, management and communication that prevailed impacted me a lot. 

Studying at the MSB gives you a very realistic overview of professional life through the theoretical but also several practical courses, workshops...                    

As a young businessperson, I had the opportunity to be hired very quickly after graduating from a position that met my expectations. 

And was also aligned with all the knowledge and skills that I acquired during my studies. 

Overall, MSB made me grow personally and professionally.  

The five-year experience at the MSB (Mediterranean School of Business) was a turning point in my life. 

 It was so fruitful at both scientific and human levels.  

There I acquired lots of knowledge and skills that have greatly enriched my scientific background and paved the way to professional life in a smooth way.  

It was also a golden chance to mix with others and learn from them. In fact, I gained so many communicative skills from that experience.  

MSB was not just a place of study. It was a hive full of life in its broad meaning.  

MSB is more than an educational experience and the best is to make friends for life.

Having been a 100% MSB student allowed me to get the full SMU experience. During my 5-year journey, courses were provided by world-class Tunisian researchers and inspiring visiting professors in a collaborative and revolutionary format. The university abounds of uplifting people — staff and students alike — with whom you get to hone your “people skills”, and thus be ready to tackle business issues one’s will be facing in the professional world. As a financial consultant at Deloitte, the course material provided proved to be essential in solving modern issues faced by Tunisian and foreign companies we work with, whether in strategic management or corporate finance.

An MSB graduate in Tunisia is always one step ahead from others by acquiring strong communication & soft skills, by leveraging English level, and by going through a program that is up to date with nowadays business management processes and strategies that offers you flexibility to adapt with broad range of jobs, and those are the cherries companies in & outside Tunisia are willing to pick!