Business Administration in Germany is the single deepest subject–country pair in our catalogue: 97 published master's programmes, more than any other combination we list anywhere. For scale, the next deepest is Computer Science in Germany at 69, and the deepest UK pair is Computer Science at 30.
Depth is not automatically an advantage. Ninety-seven options is a shortlisting problem, and the thing that makes it tractable is geography.
Half of it is in Berlin
Counted from our listings: 48 of the 97 are in Berlin, spread almost evenly across three institutions — Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (16), Freie Universität Berlin (16) and Technische Universität Berlin (16). After Berlin the distribution falls off sharply: Leipzig (6), Hamburg (4), Frankfurt am Main (4), Mainz (4) and Cologne (3).
That is an unusual shape and it has a practical consequence. A Berlin-centred shortlist covers half the field with one city's cost of living, one rental market, one set of travel logistics and three applications. If Berlin does not work for you — and for some students it genuinely does not — you are choosing from a much thinner spread than the headline number suggests.
The three Berlin universities are not interchangeable
Humboldt and Freie Universität are classical research universities with broad social-science and economics faculties. TU Berlin is a technical university, and its business and management programmes tend to sit closer to engineering, operations and technology management. If your first degree is a BTech or BE rather than a BBA or BCom, TU Berlin's framing is often the more natural fit, and the reverse is true if you are coming from a commerce background.
How long these degrees take
Across the 97 programmes we list, durations are 12, 18, 24 and 30 months. German master's degrees are typically longer than the one-year UK model, and that difference compounds: two extra semesters of living costs, against a longer runway to find work and more time on a thesis that German employers tend to take seriously.
If you are comparing a 24-month German master's with a 12-month UK one, compare total cost and total time to first salary, not the per-year figure. They are different products with different arithmetic.
On fees — what we hold, and what we do not
We will be direct: we do not currently hold a verified tuition figure for any of our 1,075 published German programmes, Business Administration included. That is a gap in our data and we are working through it rather than papering over it.
What we can say is that public universities in Germany are the reason the question is unusual in the first place — the German model is built around state funding rather than tuition, and the costs a student meets are structured differently from an Anglophone system. Every programme we list links to its official page, and for a question this consequential that page is the only source worth acting on. We have written separately about how the German fee structure actually works and what a master's in Germany involves for an Indian student.
Narrowing 97 down to a shortlist
Three filters, in this order.
City first, not ranking. With half the field in one city, deciding whether Berlin is your plan removes or retains half the list in a single step. No other filter is that efficient.
Then your first degree. A technical university's management programme and a classical university's economics-led one want different undergraduate backgrounds. Matching that honestly is worth more than a rank difference.
Then duration. Twelve months and thirty months are both on this list. That is a two-and-a-half-fold difference in living costs and in time out of the workforce, and it is the variable most students notice last and should notice second.
Browse the full set: Business Administration in Germany, or master's only. If you want the subject elsewhere, Business Administration across every destination we list.
Catalogue figures counted from our published listings on 6 October 2026 and will move as the catalogue grows. We hold no verified tuition figure for German programmes at the time of writing; check each programme's official page.