Upon graduation from the CEMS MIM program, you must demonstrate the following levels of language proficiency:

• Excellent oral and written proficiency in the first foreign language (C1/C2), and 

For non-native English speakers:

• Good oral and written proficiency in the second foreign language, documented by a minimum of 5 ECTS or 60 contact hours from an approved examination or institution if the language level is A1, A2, or B1.

For native English speakers:

• Good oral proficiency in the second foreign language (B1).

The Common European Framework is the reference for comparing language proficiency in all European languages. 

The mother tongue or first foreign language must be English. The second foreign language may be any language.

Certain combinations of closely related languages are not permitted to satisfy the language requirements, for example:

• Danish/Swedish/Norwegian
• Danish/Faroese
• Czech/Slovak
• Catalan/Spanish
• Galician/Spanish
• German/Luxembourgish
• Russian/Kazakh
• Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian/Montenegrin/Slovenian
• Ukrainian/Belarusian/Russian
• Afrikaans/Dutch/Flemish/Frisian

For further details regarding language requirements, please refer to the section on language graduation requirements.