Program & Careers
The Master's program in Luxury Management and Customer Experience – Italian Excellence is a full-time 12-month course.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
The goal of the program is to provide young professionals with the key technical and managerial skills needed today to succeed in the luxury sector. The program aims to shape future professionals in hospitality, jewelry and other luxury sectors, with a particular focus on the luxury customer experience and on Italy’s excellence in this field. Moreover, participants will learn the skills needed to stand out in the luxury sector and how to grow luxury businesses. By contrast, traditional programs in general management rarely address the specific skill set needed by managers in luxury.
LEARNING JOURNEY
This program offers a specialized, and highly customized, learning experience. The
learn-by-doing approach ensures a strong interaction inside and outside the classroom and offers
the opportunity to put theory into practice. The program is based on 4 pillars:
- Luxury Industry and Managing Excellence across the Value Chain
- Luxury Branding and Communication
- Italian Excellence and the Italian Touch: Creating the Finest Customer Experience
- Project Work/Internship
The program is in English and lasts 12 months, from September 2024 to April 2025.
The first month of General Management will be delivered online, followed by six months
of classes in Rome.
During and after classes, students will have the opportunity to apply their acquired
knowledge to practical projects.
John Cabot University is the leading American university in Italy. Founded in 1972, JCU is an independent liberal arts university, with 3 campuses in the heart of Trastevere, and a highly international population. John Cabot University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and is licensed to award its degrees by the Delaware Department of Education. John Cabot’s Frank J. Guarini School of Business is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Only 6% of the best business schools in the world have this accreditation. The JCU Business School is the third university in Italy and the only American overseas university in Europe to be AACSB-accredited.
The building hosting the JCU Center for Graduate Studies and Luxury Management classes dates back to 1495. It was built as a home for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, the future Pope Paul III. In the first half of the 19th century, it passed on to the powerful Bourbon family. Since 1934 it has been part of the adjacent Accademia dei Lincei, the oldest academy in the world dedicated to the study of the humanities and natural sciences. Galileo Galilei, Enrico Fermi and Vito Volterra were among its members.
Do you want to discover the JCU campuses? Schedule a virtual or in-presence campus tour via email!
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Career services are offered by both John Cabot and POLIMI GSoM, providing a unique dual-networking experience. This aims to optimize students’ success in the job market and career development.
JOHN CABOT UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR CAREER SERVICES
The JCU Center for Career Services helps students and alumni successfully prepare for top jobs, promotes their career
development and facilitates business networking. The Center provides personalized
support and myriad opportunities to interact with professionals and learn about the
key trends driving the job market.
A network of 780+ partner companies in all key industries relevant to the fields of study at John Cabot.
Talks, workshops, and special classes are hosted in-person and online and are available to students and alumni.
The strong synergy between academic and job-specific skills makes it possible to help managers grow professionally, while developing their work identity. For this reason, the Center provides individual and group support through counseling and guidance services.
JOBIRI is the JCU Career Services virtual career coach: a job/career platform using artificial intelligence, available in English and Italian, offering a wide range of benefits for students and graduates.
Webinars and sessions are open to all students, providing tips on how to optimize their professional profile, focusing on soft skills development and LinkedIn personal branding.
POLIMI GSOM CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
POLIMI GSoM Career Development Centre is an extended team of Career Consultants, partnering with mentors, trainers, alumni and headhunters, with the objective of developing Career Management Skills. The Career Consultants
design, constantly innovate, and enrich the Career Development Program, offering Career
Skills Development Workshops, Career counseling and networking events every year.
Thanks to POLIMI GSoM’s Career Development Program, which adopts an innovative and rigorous methodology, students will be guided through a structured development path. Starting from a self-assessment of their skills and an analysis of the job market, candidates will design a customized career strategy and an effective action plan, to turn their career aspirations into achievable goals. At the end of POLIMI GSoM's Career Development Program, students will have developed a set of professional skills that enable them to be highly competitive in today’s job market, and become successful “career leaders”. To offer students the best support for enhancing their CV, POLIMI GSoM is partnering with VMock, a smart Career Preparation Platform that enables students get an objective score on their CV and optimize its impact. To provide students with relevant resources relating to trends in various industry sectors, country-specific career guides and career-related webinars, POLIMI GSoM is partnering with major international career platforms and guarantees students free access to POLIMI GSoM’s Global Network of Career Websites.
Right from the start of the program, the Career Development Centre supports candidates in increasing their brand and economic value, to enable them to pursue their managerial career at both national and international level. The Career Development Centre organizes workshops with the main objective of supporting students in developing the necessary career management to succeed in this complex and ever-changing competitive job market, such as personal branding skills, job interview skills, public speaking and presentation skills, and cross-cultural skills for working in international teams and organizations.
Thanks to FLEXA, a personalized and continuous learning digital platform designed for POLIMI GSoM students and alumni, the Career Development Centre offers innovative services:
- Self-assessment for the empowerment of hard, soft and digital skills
- The best, tailored management content to help close students’ skill gaps
- Advanced networking services with companies and students from different programs
- Job postings: internships, job opportunities and challenges launched by companies
The POLIMI GSoM Career Development Centre may offer students additional opportunities to network with employers, such as on-campus company presentations, company visits and Career Days.