It is a full-time, one-year program (75 ECTS)[4] which includes formal teaching (in French or English), an internship, and the preparation of an individual thesis.
It is usually aimed at young professionals who already have a master's degree, but would like either to specialise or expand their knowledge and experience in a domain where the private sector has identified a real need.
However, unlike the Specialized Masters it is a part-time program, designed for professionals who would like to consolidate and expand their expertise in a specific domain, while continuing to work full-time.
The program takes fifteen months, at the end of which the student is expected to submit an individual thesis.
But a lot of foreign students sometimes came to study in France's grandes écoles for only a year, and came back to their own country without a degree.