Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS)
Chavannes-près-Renens, Switzerland
DURATION
3 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline
EARLIEST START DATE
May 2025
TUITION FEES
CHF 12,500 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for CAS in sustainable business: 9000 CHF
Introduction
Postgraduate Academic Qualification in a Variety of Subject Areas
The Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) is a postgraduate academic qualification. Designed for mid-career professionals, they are considered higher continuing education programs.
CAS programs offer highly specialized knowledge, enabling students to acquire eminently practical skills and competencies in a given subject area. CAS courses are offered through 2 and a half day modules that run from Thursday to Saturday morning and can be completed while working.
CAS in Marketing & Strategy
No matter how fast the world accelerates, your business success depends on your capacity to provide products or services that your customers will pay you for. However, you need to understand an increasing number of approaches and tools to get the most out of the potential strategies you will consider. These strategies must include a deep understanding of the business model transformations.
CAS in Transformative Leadership
Effective executives need to develop skills and competencies to lead teams and organizations to the next level of their development. Personal and professional development is at the heart of CAS in Transformative Leadership that aims at transforming the leader in you an empowering you to transform the people around you.
CAS in Data Analysis and Finance
The program provides a one stop shop for knowledge development and application that will enable you to take effective financial decisions in the rapidly evolving business context. Financial analysis is combined with math and statistics, specialized programming, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning with the goal of creating insights and meaningful data.
CAS in Sustainable Business
The CAS in Sustainable Business accelerates your transition to become a positive impact leader among your executive peers. BSL’s innovative approach creates a unique learning environment to explore real-world issues and nurture immediately applicable solutions. We often hear that sustainability will create numerous business opportunities. BSL pays special attention to how entrepreneurs can capitalize on these opportunities here and now and imagine new business models. The entrepreneurs’ paths pave the way for innovative initiatives in the corporate world and civil society.
CAS in Business Transformation
The CAS in Business Transformation and Entrepreneurship aims at educating experienced managers who want to move to more strategic levels of leadership. Make change your business’s best friend by learning to amend your Business Model or develop another relevant one. In today’s world, the capacity to navigate change has become the crossroads of all other hard or soft skills, experience, and expertise.
CAS in Management
100% personalized track. Choose 5 executive seminars that matter most to your professional development to create a personalized executive certificate of advanced studies.
Ideal Students
The BSL E-CAS programs are ideal for professionals looking to gain higher strategic expertise that they can immediately apply to make a real impact on business. Our program enables entrepreneurs & business professionals eager to translate their vision into developing a business or to excel within a specific functional area.
Admissions
Curriculum
Study Plans
Each module runs in three-day sessions, totaling 24 hours of class time. The Seminar modules run from Thursdays to Saturdays and end at lunchtime on Saturday. Meals are provided over the three days.
Each E-CAS will have an individual schedule – please contact the admissions team using the below form for specific dates of upcoming courses.
Course list per Program
CAS in Marketing & Strategy: September to December
- Marketing Management
- Innovation and Organizational Design
- Marketing Strategy and Competitive Positioning
- Strategy for Business Transformation
- Building a Brand in the Digital Age
CAS in Transformative Leadership: January to April
- Leadership Through Crisis
- Managing and Developing People in the 4th Industrial Revolution
- Strategic Negotiations
- Advanced Communication & Team Dynamics
- Leading Through Listening
CAS in Finance & Data Analysis: May to July
- Strategic Corporate Finance
- Finance for Entrepreneurs
- Trends Analysis and Scenario Planning
- Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI in Business
- Financial Investments: Optimizing returns through Data Analytics
The pre-requisite course “Managerial Accounting / Basic Finance” must be completed prior to starting this E-CAS.
CAS in Sustainable Business: January to June
- Building Sustainability Strategy
- Implementing Sustainability Strategy
- Creating Sustainable Value / Supply Chain Focus
- Sustainable Finance
- Leading Sustainability
CAS in Business Transformation & Entrepreneurship: January to June
- Strategy for Business Transformation
- Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI in Business
- Innovation and Organizational Change
- From Social to Regenerative Entrepreneurship
- Business Transformation Towards Sustainability
CAS in Business Administration (mini-MBA)
- Advanced Communication & Team Dynamics
- Marketing Management
- Strategic Corporate Finance
- Strategy for Business Transformation
- Empower Your Future
CAS in Management
100% personalized track
Choose 5 executive seminars that matter most to your professional development to create a personalized Executive Certificate of Advanced Studies.