Master of Business Administration (MBA) — European Management

We have been offering the MBA programme "European Management" since 1990. No other postgraduate programme in business studies takes the specific demands of the European economic area into account to a similar degree. This is because of its subject foci, its internationally renowned lecturers, its international students and its contacts. Behavioural Management is our vision. Companies and their managers are only successful if they understand people in their roles as consumers, customers, employees and decision makers from economic, societal and psychological perspectives. Understanding behaviour calls for expertise in the theories behind all this, and we need methods to influence behaviour. This leads to the following fascinating questions: Why do consumers, employees and managers behave the way they do? How do internationalisation and Europeanisation influence behaviour? How can we decipher the expectations of customers and other stakeholders and how can we meet them? How can we bring the attitudes and skills of employees together with those of managers? How can modern information systems and social media help to understand the people we interact with? With the internationally renowned degree of MBA European Management, all participants qualify for leading management positions in the international job market. All courses can also be booked individually as certified advanced education courses. Teamwork and leadership training play an important role in qualifying top leaders. Therefore, our students have the opportunity to work on case studies in each class. They improve both key competencies and soft skills such as leadership, business behaviour, presentation techniques and team building. Our programme features state-of-the-art teaching methods, high-transfer orientation, guest lectures and panel discussions. "Learning in action" also includes up to three international study weeks in Valencia (Spain), for example. Practitioners from international institutions and companies lecture on topical issues and share their professional experience. Managers from major companies regularly invite our students to visit their manufacturing facilities and share their insights into management. The excellent quality of the MBA European Management was reconfirmed in 2009 with the FIBAA seal of accreditation and, in 2019, with the Saarland University Quality Passport in the system accreditation of Saarland University. Our MBA graduates hold highly sought-after management positions in leading companies in Europe and across the world. Recruiters are European and international companies as well as international governments and administrations. The programme offers great flexibility, with full-time and part-time options, enabling students to engage in both studies and work. The modular approach allows for tailored study structures, accommodating diverse student needs. The full-time programme can be completed in one year. Part-time students can extend the programme to a maximum of four years. Students acquire specialist knowledge in all areas of modern business management, covered in 15 courses: Strategic Management, Corporate Sustainability and Social Responsibility, Soft Skills, European Institutions, European Regulations, Economics and Finance, Learning Business by Doing Business, Marketing and Management in Foreign Countries, Retailing and Logistics, Service Management, Data Analysis, Consumer Behaviour, Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Human Resource Management and Cross-Cultural Management. Each course usually runs from Wednesday to Saturday, as a blocked course. To pass, students need to write either an academic paper or an exam. At the end of the programme, students write a Master's thesis on an innovative and relevant topic in management and marketing research. There is a writing time of three months for full-time students and six months for part-time students. The entire curriculum of the MBA programme is offered in English. Students at the