Courses are completely taught in English.
Non-EU applicants: 31 May
EU applicants: 15 July
Included in tuition fees:
The one-year full-time MBA is designed for high-achieving professionals from all over the world who are seeking a career change and who are eager to learn more about general management. In the full-time MBA programme, our students study and work in interdisciplinary, multicultural study groups and have the opportunity to develop leadership and interpersonal skills in an international environment.
Top five reasons to study the MBA at WHU:
Start.Grow.Sustain
By structuring our courses around the unique Start.Grow.Sustain framework, we will provide you with a comprehensive, systematic, and practical roadmap for corporate and entrepreneurial success across all C-suite functions.
Foundations: Strategy, Financial Accounting, Marketing
Start: Entrepreneurship, Economics, Statistics
Grow: Data Science & AI, Operations, Finance + Elective Course
Sustain: Governance, Sustainability, Innovation, Managerial Accounting + Elective Course
Customised Personal Development and Leadership Journey
International Immersive Experience
The final MBA project gives you the opportunity to apply all that you have learned in a real-life project. We encourage our students to complete their Master's theses as part of a company project (internship).
Included in tuition fees:
None
WHU grants partial scholarships to enable highly talented candidates from all countries to pursue the WHU MBA. As you can infer from the description of the respective scholarship (e.g. Diversity Scholarship, Developing Countries Scholarship, Entrepreneurship Scholarship, Women in Business Scholarship, etc.), we try to support individuals who are likely to add special value to the MBA class.
We require the following for your application to the full-time MBA programme:
As the teaching language is English, non-native speakers have to take the TOEFL (100) or IELTS (7.0) test. Waivers are possible for applicants with substantial study or work experience in the English language.
Non-EU applicants: 31 May
EU applicants: 15 July
Due to a very tight schedule, students do not have the opportunity to work during this intense full-time MBA programme. Nevertheless, we encourage our students to undertake the final MBA project as part of a company project.
The MBA marks an important and exciting turning point in your career. Whether you aspire to move up the career ladder in your current field; change industry, job function, or location; or become a successful entrepreneur – our top-ranked MBA Career Center is dedicated to helping you turn your career ambitions into reality. We will support you in carving out a career path in line with your personal goals, enabling you to have a positive impact on the world. We have created the “Triple M” career roadmap, which outlines how we will assist you in your career journey.
WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management is a state-approved private institute of higher education with university status. WHU offers internationally-oriented courses of study in Business Administration (MSc, BSc), a full-time, part-time, and online MBA, the Kellogg-WHU Executive MBA, and a doctoral degree programme as well as specialised corporate training programmes.
WHU also has the authority to award PhDs and professorships. Its international network includes more than 200 partner universities on all continents with whom exchanges of lecturers and students take place, as well as cooperation in research worldwide. In 1998, WHU became the first German university to be accredited by the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS). In February 2014, the accreditation was extended by EQUIS for another five years. WHU is regularly certified by EQUIS and FIBAA and received the AACSB Accreditation in 2010, which guarantees the excellent standard of courses and a high degree of internationalisation.
In addition, WHU is the only private institution of higher education in Germany that is a member of the German Research Association (DFG). In both national and international rankings WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management continues to occupy leading positions.
Düsseldorf is the capital of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and is a city with many different faces. It is an international business and financial centre and is renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Centrally located in Europe, the city is headquarters to five Fortune Global 500 and several DAX companies. Additionally, the city is home to thousands of students, all drawn to Düsseldorf because of its creative atmosphere and its beautiful historic centre.
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