Little known to young people, internet schools are highly regarded by companies. Digital Campus & HETIC, two web professions schools within the Studialis network, are training the managers of tomorrow's web.
While schools and universities dedicated to web technologies have grown rapidly in the United States, France still lags behind in this area of training. Some business and engineering schools do offer web master's programmes, but companies remain sceptical due to the single year of instruction involved.
Marc-François Mignot Mahon, founder of HETIC, explains: "They are looking for highly technical profiles capable of adapting to the constant changes of the internet." In response to this reality, Digital Campus and HETIC offer students 100% web-focused training. One measure of their effectiveness? "10,000 job offers in this sector for 1,000 graduates per year", notes Marc-François Mignot Mahon.
Digital Campus is one of these pioneering schools, born from the union of three reference institutions (a business school, an applied arts/multimedia school and a computer science school). Students follow a two-year common curriculum after the Baccalaureate, then specialise in their third year in a discipline of their choice (web marketing, web design, web development).
What about those most directly concerned — young people who have grown up immersed in the internet? Surprisingly, they show little interest in web careers. This unfortunate reality is partly explained by guidance counsellors' lack of familiarity with these career paths.
The outlook for the future is rather promising: by 2015, nearly 450,000 jobs are expected to be created — enough to reassure students about their future career prospects.
Source: Le Point