Master in Management programs are taking up also in Germany. 21 academic institutions offer these general management programs in Germany and more are likely to follow in the future. Four of them – the ESCP Europe, the Frankfurt University, the HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management, and the Mannheim University – are accredited by the US American accreditation agency AACSB. In addition, the Mannheim University, the ESCP Europe, and the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management hold the European EQUIS accreditation certificate. Studying in Germany thus may be an interesting opportunity for people who expect high standards in education and are interested in one of the world’s leading economies.
21 academic institutions in Germany offer Master in Management programs and can be found at the platform Master in Management Compass (www.mim-compass.com) or googelt by searching for “Master in Management Germany“:
- accadis – Hochschule Bad Homburg
- Cologne Business School (CBS)
- ESB Business School
- ESCP Europe
- EBS University
- GGS – German Graduate School of Management and Law
- Goethe University Frankfurt
- HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management
- ISM – International School of Management
- LMU – Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
- Mannheim Business School
- Munich Business School
- Open University Hagen
- Ruhr University Bochum
- Steinbeis University Berlin
- Stuttgart Institute of Management and Technology (SIMT)
- University of Cologne
- University of Erlangen-Nurnberg
- University of Hohenheim
- University of Mainz
- WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
The Master in Management as a threat for the MBA
Actually, the Master in Management is both quite a young and a European phenomenon. Traditionally the Master in Business Administration (MBA) was THE postgraduate education in general management. But within the first decade of the new millennium a new programme type with a equivalent focus emerged: the MSc in Management (MiM).
Its key trigger was the so-called Bologna reform by which European countries since 1999 exchanged their traditional 5-year academic programs for the Anglo-Saxon bachelor-master system. As the bachelor in business required a consecutive master in business in order to offer students the same qualification as the old diploma the Master in Management was born conjointly with other business masters. But today the Master in Management is not just a follow-up program for business students nor is it offered only in Europe: Instead, business schools all over the world offer MSc in Management to graduates of all academic areas.
Germanacademic institutions , at least 21 of them, seem to have seen the profit potential of this new program type as a severe alternative to the MBA, particularly for graduates without or with only little work experience.
Source: Master in Management Compass