Courses are held in English (100%).
The four-semester MBA for Working Professionals has an innovative hybrid format – participants will be able to take advantage of four weekends of on-campus classroom instructions (Friday & Saturday) and four weekends of online lectures (Friday & Saturday) each semester – providing maximum flexibility in their time schedules and allowing for an excellent work-life-study balance.
We encourage you to complete your application as soon as possible, as we are accepting applications for the winter semester on a rolling basis.
You can apply for this unique Hybrid, Part-Time MBA for Working Professionals by filling out the online application form on our homepage: https://www.ku.de/en/mba/online-application.
Tuition fees do not include travel expenses.
Digitalisation, global competitiveness, and business resilience are key challenges that future business leaders will need to manage and master, strategically and sustainably.
Discover and join the Hybrid, Part-Time MBA programme at WFI – Ingolstadt School of Management at KU, Germany’s most popular university (*StudyCheck.de Award). This unique MBA is for ambitious young professionals who wish to unlock their full potential and become top-level managers and executives. Accelerate your career and develop the knowledge and skills for global business success while still working at your full-time job.
By joining a select cohort of working professionals and future business leaders in an innovative hybrid format, you will experience transformational learning that will fast track your career progress. Exclusive features of this programme are two in-person business immersions – one in Silicon Valley (USA) and one in Germany – built around essential themes and challenges for today’s business.
This English-language MBA programme builds a solid foundation of scientific and applied knowledge, provides international orientation and exposure, offers unmatched networking and real-world exposure, along with an emphasis on ethics and sustainability in business. Learn from internationally renowned professors, managers, and business leaders from innovative firms, and become part of a programme where theory meets practice.
The Programme
This MBA programme emphasises “breadth” and “general management” and does not limit itself to a specific functional area of business administration. It is geared towards a holistic understanding of business administration with a goal of grooming high potential candidates for top management and leadership positions in the future regardless of their current functional area.
A distinguishing feature of this MBA programme is the inclusion of two business immersions. The first one takes participants to Silicon Valley (USA) to visit five cutting edge companies of different sizes, industries and life-stages of digitisation. The second one within Germany gives students the opportunity to interact with innovative companies that have successfully achieved global expansion and growth.
Target Group
The MBA programme is designed for managers and working professionals (senior or junior managers) from all industries and organisations, as well as self-employed individuals and entrepreneurs who have a first university degree, at least two years of professional experience and good English skills. A previous degree in business administration is not required.
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Degree Structure and Course Modules
More than ever, managers and executives have to develop a broad set of skills and competencies to address complex challenges as the very nature of business evolves rapidly. The aim of the "Master of Business Administration" (MBA) continuing education programme is to provide ambitious working professionals with the mindset and tools to successfully meet complex business challenges and help manage and grow their organisations and enterprises.
Through coursework, global immersions, and out-of-class activities, the programme emphasises “breadth” and “general management”, similar to top MBA programmes offered in Germany or elsewhere globally. Its objective is to equip students with a holistic understanding of business administration, and it seeks to groom students for top management and leadership positions in the future regardless of their current functional area of expertise.
The activities and coursework of this curriculum touch on the day to day business challenges.
The programme is an independent component of the academic life and offerings of the faculty at the WFI - Ingolstadt School of Management at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
There are 14 teaching modules in this programme. Each teaching module comprises 5 ECTS credits and focuses on a specific problem of management. Each module has four days of teaching, including blended learning, whereby it can consist of several sub-topics.
Global Immersion in Silicon Valley, USA – Digitalisation, Scaling Up, and New Business Models
The global immersion in Silicon Valley, USA, is designed to provide a unique action-learning opportunity for participants to have a first hand experience of a thriving, “innovation and digitalisation” focused ecosystem. Working professionals in the MBA programme will embark on a one-week trip to Silicon Valley, where they will visit five cutting edge companies of different sizes, industries and life-stages of digitalisation and learn from senior business executives of those organisations. This will be accompanied by lectures on how to successfully reinvent current business models, transform organisations through digitalisation, and scale up innovations.
Innovation Immersion in Germany – Achieving Global Growth and Competitiveness
A central business question in most organisations, regardless of their size or life stage, is where and how they will achieve growth. In a globally competitive world, achieving sustainable growth is a prized target for companies. This business immersion course in Germany is designed to provide a unique action-learning opportunity for participants to have a first-hand experience of a thriving ecosystem that is focused on “global growth” and “competitiveness”. Working professionals in the MBA programme will embark on a one-week trip in Germany, where they will experience the “living business lab” of cutting-edge companies that have succeeded in achieving global expansion and growth. Furthermore, participants will learn from senior business executives of those organisations how to grow globally and achieve long-term, sustainable competitiveness. This will be accompanied by lectures on how to build globally competitive business models and transform organisations through sustainable growth.
Tuition fees do not include travel expenses.
Tuition fees include the semester contribution of 71 EUR.
Approximately 750 to 800 EUR per month (including accommodation)
Please note that KU has two campuses in two different cities. The cost of living might be lower in Eichstätt and higher in Ingolstadt, depending on the accommodation (e.g. in a student residence or from a private landlord).
Admission to the Hybrid, Part-Time MBA is open to candidates who fulfil the following requirements:
1. First higher education degree
A level of competence of an internationally recognised first academic degree (undergraduate degree) in any discipline qualifying for admission to a profession or equivalent admission requirements (e.g. BSc | BA | BBA | BEd | BEng | LLB or equivalent)
2. First postgraduate working experience of at least two years
A qualified professional experience of not less than two years in management, planning and control tasks after completion of the first university course in private or public enterprises, associations, administrations or church institutions
3. Fluency in English (C1, details see below)
4. German language skills (A2, details see below)
To access the online application for the Hybrid, Part-Time MBA, please click here.
English language skills must be proven prior to the start of the first semester of the MBA programme. Accepted evidence:
Other English language certificates may be submitted. The Selection Committee will inform each applicant whether the submitted certificates are sufficient, or if the applicant must provide one of the three listed above.
German language skills at level A2 (European Framework of Reference) are required. We accept one of the following proofs: German "Abitur", a Goethe A2 Certificate, or an equivalent certificate. The German language skills must be proven by the end of the second semester, and until then, matriculation is subject to providing the required proof.
We encourage you to complete your application as soon as possible, as we are accepting applications for the winter semester on a rolling basis.
You can apply for this unique Hybrid, Part-Time MBA for Working Professionals by filling out the online application form on our homepage: https://www.ku.de/en/mba/online-application.
Maximilian Bauer, MSc
MBA Programme Manager and Doctoral Candidate
It is possible to find a job as a student assistant ("Hiwi") by contacting professors and university departments directly. Information on current job vacancies can also be found on the website of each chair.
There are also different offers for temporary part-time jobs outside the university, for example, in restaurants or in shopping malls. Eichstätt and Ingolstadt are the cities with the lowest unemployment rates in Germany.
The International Office at the KU offers a housing service. It helps international students find accommodation, and it facilitates the contact between students and the future landlord or landlady. This service is free of charge. However, a housing service deposit is charged, and this will be refunded at the end of your rental contract. Please find more information on housing at the KU here.
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