Associative life at Supdeco offers students the opportunity to carry out projects as a team, to learn how to take responsibility. It is considered an essential component of the training of the Group’s students and is assessed in the same way as academic knowledge.
Students can choose to become involved in twenty or so clubs or create one. They are supervised by a person in charge of community life and by tutors. At every stage of their projects, they benefit from the advice of experts, teachers in marketing, finance or management.
Among the most important clubs, we can count:
Training managers at Sup de Co Dakar incorporates, in addition to knowledge and professional skills, sport activity perfectly integrated into the curriculum.
All students are obliged to exercise a sport, under the guidance of qualified teachers of sports. The activity is evaluated and the grade integrated in the calculation of the average grade of the student.
The intensity of the efforts and the means invested in this sector allowed Sup De Co to generate national and international champions like Olga BAMPOKY, African champion of karate, Khady BOYE, African champion of judo, etc.
Physical activity and sport is an integral and compulsory part within the group. The Group also provides its students and Administration with a sports center open 7 days on 7.
Recognizing the crucial function of sport in the optimal development and healthy growth of individuals, the Group has been organizing, since May 2005, the Sup de Co Cross – Country running.This event is a major one in the academic and sporting calendar. It brings together each year nearly one thousand (1000) runners.
This is a good time which brings together the main players in the Group’s life : teachers, students, partners and many guests. Athletes, enthusiasts and amateur storm the major streets of Dakar.
Held on the fringes of the African Day, the Sup de Co games bring students, Sup de Co staff and numerous guests together. They compete sportingly in several sports. All in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.
In addition to a high-level faculty, Groupe Supdeco Dakar provides students with high-quality teaching resources. These include the CDI and the Computer Centres.
A veritable knowledge niche, the CDI contains several books from collections covering the fields of management, marketing, human resources, finance, economics, business law, taxation, transport and logistics.
CDI has a constantly updated collection of some 2,000 books. 90% of these books are in French. In addition to the general collection, users can also consult novels and essays and “usual” collections (encyclopaedias, dictionaries, etc.). Books are selected based on our procurement policy. CDI users may also offer to purchase a book.
CDI offers about 20 titles from the Senegalese and foreign economic and generalist press. The magazines are displayed at the display in front of the CDI entrance. The daily newspapers of the day are always on the reading table.
Students do internships during the course, after which they are required to submit an annual report. In addition, at the end of their training, students support a dissertation which they also submit to the CDI.
In addition, Groupe Supdeco Dakar has just joined the Cyberlibris platform. This is done with the aim of ensuring to its clients and collaborators a permanent access to knowledge, through the best published works in the world.
Indeed, Cyberlis is the first European platform for digital resources entirely dedicated to food and economy, with a community of tens of thousands of students, teachers and managers in France and abroad.
In particular, Cyberlibris provides on-line access in full text to a collection of about 14,000 books in French and English sourced from the leading international publishing houses (Dalloz, Dunod, Maxima, Gualino, La Découverte, Bloomberg Press, John International Wiley & Sons, McGraw-HiLL, etc.)..
Aware of the importance of Information and Communication Technologies, SupdeCo Group, a pioneer in the training of engineers in IT and telecommunications in Senegal, from its inception, took the option of creating a modern computer center equipped with advanced equipment for each of its departments.
Computer centers located on each of the Group’s campus have ultra-sophisticated equipment and are entirely composed of computers running Windows 8 only; thanks to a fruitful partnership with US giant Microsoft a first in Senegal, a first in Senegal.
With Computer Centres, SupdeCo campus are available full wifi and internet access is totally free. In addition, students and teachers can have access to the latest equipment to facilitate the administration of courses and exams.
In a megalopolis like Dakar, where access to real estate has become a lucrative business, the provision of a university residence with an international vocation is a unique opportunity for students, especially those from other countries.
The Supdeco Group, deeply committed to the student cause and particularly sensitive to the conditions of study and the well-being of students, has conceived this residency project to strengthen its support tools for students, with the aim of ensuring their success.
SUP DE CO is a private institution of higher education and interdisciplinary research, located in
Dakar, Thies and Saint Louis. With its campuses in Dakar, Thiès and Saint Louis, SUPDÉCO occupies a unique place in the Senegalese
in the Senegalese educational landscape.