GeM Consortium


		GeM Consortium
		The GeM Consortium is an international network of many of the leading business schools in Europe, Mexico and the U.S., who have joined to develop and offer a common program in e-management in an executive format. The current list of GeM Consortium members (other than GSU) is given on the side bar, with links to a brief description of each school and their respective GeM home pages. The global character of the program is ensured through the collaboration among the faculty of these schools in the development and on-going revision of the content that is the GeM Program. As importantly, the students from each of the participating universities come together three times during the course of the program at the scheduled international seminars, and it is from this globally diverse group of students that the global teams are formed. The Consortium began with six founding universities to develop the GeM program in 1997, admitting its first class in fall 2000. The consortium has since expanded to ten universities. To accommodate this number of universities (and expected additions), a specific program instance, called a "Ring" is created when three or more universities agree to a common calendar of course offerings and the sharing of students.			The upcoming Ring will be the fourth such program instance or Ring. The universities currently planning to participate in "Ring IV" are: ▪ Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) ▪ EGADE (Monterrey Tech, or TEC) ▪ Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands) ▪ ESADE (Barcelona, Spain) ▪ Georgia State University ▪ Norwegian School of Economics & Business ▪ University of Cologne (Germany) Each school offers its own courses to their students and each awards its own degree. The only concurrent learning across all students occurs at the three international seminars. The GeM Consortium awards a GeM Certificate of Completion (at the third international seminar), in addition to the university awarded degree. In addition, the GeM Consortium supports the GeM Alumni Organization that was formed by the first group of 180 students to graduate from the program, with another 130 to join shortly from the Ring II graduating students. By the time you complete the program, the global GeM alumni network will exceed 500 students. The local GSU GeM Alumni also have an active chapter with monthly meetings.