Tuition & Fees
CEFAM offers a 5% discount of your first semester tuition fee.
To be eligible for the discount, the total deposit fee (3,000 euros) must be transferred to the CEFAM bank account before November 1st, 2024 for January 2025 intake & before March 30, 2025 for September 2025 intake
Tuition fees & Financing
CEFAM’s academic program, based on the American model, allows students a large amount of flexibility in organizing their program. Students may take anywhere from 4 to 7 courses per semester and adapt the semester costs accordingly. A 3-credit course is billed at 705 euros.
Undergraduate Program
On average, tuition fees per academic year for the first three years at CEFAM in Lyon cost approximately 8,876€ per year.
Business track
The exact cost per year for the 2024-2025 academic year is provided below:
- Freshman Year – 1st year: 11,665€
- Sophomore Year – 2nd Year: 9,480€
- Junior Year – 3rd year 5,485€
- Senior Year – 4th year (CEFAM) 13,560 €.
- Senior Year – 4th year (USA partner): See below. Students pay their tuition fees directly to the partner university only for the 4th year.
- Senior Year – 4th and 5th years (Canadian partner) Approximately 25,000 € total
Spend 16 months studying at Université Laval to obtain an MBA after graduation at CEFAM
The tuition fees appear in the study contract sent to each student before each registration and/or re-registration. They can be revised during the course from one year to the next.
Liberal arts track
- First Year: 10,645 €
- Second Year: 13,980 €
- Third Year in USA: $48 400
- Scholarship: from 16,000 € to 24,000 €
The tuition fees below are those of our partner universities. CEFAM is not responsible for any price variations.
Scholarships and Financing
Several solutions exist to help you finance your education at CEFAM:
- Adapting your schedule and course load to be able to work part-time
- Partnerships with banks for loans at preferential rates and many other advantages
- Personalized financing plans available with installments
- Honor scholarships awarded each year
- Erasmus grants for European internships
- Student jobs
Scholarships and Financing for the United States
Merit scholarships are awarded to CEFAM students based on their academic results when they transfer to select partner universities, ranging from $1,000 to $23,000
Partner BBA Universities – Tuition & Scholarships 2024–2025
(Next year’s tuition fees are not yet available)
Academic requirement: minimum GPA of 2.5 to go to the USA in the final year
1. Northeastern University
- Duration: 3 mandatory semesters
- Tuition: $101,985
- Scholarships: None
2. Temple University
- Duration: 2 semesters
- Tuition: $45,456
- Scholarships:
- GPA 3.33 – 3.64: $2,500
- GPA 3.64 – 4.00: $5,000
3. Pace University
- Duration: 2 semesters
- Tuition: $52,924
- Scholarships:
- GPA 2.50: $16,500
- GPA 2.51 – 4.00: $20,500
4. Siena College
- Duration: 2 semesters
- Tuition: $48,900
- Scholarships:
- GPA 2.50 – 2.99: $16,000
- GPA 3.00 – 3.49: $20,000
- GPA 3.50 – 4.00: $24,000
5. Rider University
- Duration: 2 semesters
- Tuition: $41,700
- Scholarships:
- GPA 2.50 – 2.74: $11,000
- GPA 2.75 – 2.99: $13,000
- GPA 3.00 – 3.49: $16,000
- GPA 3.50 – 4.00: $19,000
6. Menlo College
- Duration: 2 semesters
- Tuition: $55,340
- Scholarships:
- GPA 2.50 – 4.00 (all students eligible): $33,204
7. University of New Brunswick (UNB) – MBA Program
- Tuition: CAN $31,860 (approx. €21,000)