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Business Administration, Department

Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft
Ludwigstraße 28
D-80539 München
Telephone: +49 89 2180-2228
https://www.lmu.de
LMU München
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

3,000

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

800

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

12/16 points

International orientation

Outgoing students

6.0%

Job market- and career-orientation

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

50.0%

Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's

55.0%

Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment

no data

Master theses in cooperation with work environment

no data

Research

Publications per professor

Punkte im Bereich 2 bis 5,9

Third party funds per professor

120,082 €

Doctorates per professor

0.9

Research reputation

54.3%

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Career and practical orientation
Learning and working spaces
Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Exam organisation
Digital learning
Support for stays abroad
Rooms
Library
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

128

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support

Not specified
Support in studies

Not specified
Digital learning

Not specified
Practical orientation in teaching

Not specified
Courses offered

Not specified
Study organisation

Not specified
Transition to Master's studies

Not specified
Research orientation

Not specified
Support for stays abroad

Not specified
Overall study situation

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Return rate of the questionnaires

no data

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

Exercises and tutorials in small groups, also in large lectures; Key skills including business planning; Seminars with renowned visiting academics from Germany and abroad; International collaborations with renowned universities; promotion of student research projects and practice projects; Case studies in seminars and lectures; Broad range of English-speaking courses; Orientation phase for a more rapid and successful start to studies.

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

Students demonstrate skills and acquired knowledge in a specific project (project courses) in a company and benefit from the experience of renowned managers in practical lectures. Seminars with renowned visiting academics from Germany and abroad; Can be pursued entirely in English. Orientation phase for a more rapid and successful start to studies.

Special features regarding the international orientation

Faculty's own International Relations Centre, own advisory office for international students, triple degree programme "International Triple Degree", there are no tuition fees at the partner universities for any exchange places in the faculty, additional places at over 100 partner universities of the LMU, economics language courses in nine languages, wide range of courses taught in English, two Master's programmes entirely in English.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Bocconi University, Italien; Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Niederlande; ESSEC Business School, Frankreich; Warwick University, Großbritannien; University of Sydney, Australien; Copenhagen Business School, Dänemark; HEC Lausanne, Schweiz; King's College, London, Großbritannien; Florida State University, USA; Peking University, China

Special features regarding the equipment

Faculty IT infrastructure; Training rooms with a total of 80 PCs and 50 freely accessible PCs; Printers (subject to fees); Standard software (MS Windows, MS Office) as well as licensed application software, e.g. Stata, SPSS, MATLAB additionally via remote access for courses; Access to databases such as Datastream, CRSP and Compustat via WRDS, SNL, Execucomp, People Intelligence, Securities Data Company, Boardex, Event Studies; Free WiFi across the entire campus; software provided for students by the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre; further training rooms centrally at the LMU.

Special features regarding research activities

The research focuses of the 27 academic chairs we have at present are combined into five competence areas: Finance & Insurance, Accounting & Taxation, Marketing & Innovation Management, Information Systems & Digital Business, Management & Strategy including cross-cutting themes of Legitimacy & Responsibility and Digital Transformation. Lead role in interdisciplinary and international centres, e.g. Economics & Business Data Centre. Involvement in national and international research networks, among others within German Research Foundation (DFG) projects (Collaborative Research Centre and individual funding). Extensive and interdisciplinary research projects with industry partners from the private sector.

Other special features

TOP Business Administration programme: The best 10% of a year group network with outstanding companies (elite funding); Master's career day: Strengthening of industrial-academic transfer; Graduate book to encourage entry into a career; Graduation ceremony with individual farewell; Extensive Academic and Career Guidance; Alumni network with approximately 2,300 members, 5,300 prospective members and 70 sponsors (companies); Faculty newspaper and newsletter; Business Administration faculty day; Alumni dialogues: Specialist lectures with alumni and professors on current business topics; Programme for top athletes.

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

Information on access restrictions

Website of the Student Council

online-application

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Last Update 2026: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education