German universities and the MSc in Management
by admin - August 23rd, 2010Master 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. The MBA (Master in Business Administration) is still the standard in postgraduate general management education. But a new program type catches up: the MSc in Management (MiM).
The origin of the Master in Management reaches back to the so-called Bologna reform by which European countries started to adopt the Anglo-Saxon bachelor-master system of academic education. Students who studied a five-years diploma in the oast now graduated after three years and of course seeked for an appropriate master program. The Master in Management is one of them. Today the Master in Management is offered by business schools all over the world and for students of all academic areas. It thus became a severe threat for the MBA, and many business schools offer both types of education following the strategy maxime - better cannibalizing yourself before your competitors do it.
Germanacademic institutions , at least twenty one 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