MA

Business Management & Digital Leadership

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Key facts

  • Program
    Master's
  • Duration
    2 years
  • Program
    On campus
  • Pace
    Full-time
  • Annual tuition fee
    8,280EUR
  • Start date
    Oct, Apr, Nov

Program overview

What the University of Applied Management Studies says about their program:

Optimise your career prospects: strengthen your strategic skills, combine practice and study, and explore and design the great transformation in the world of business.

Focus your Master's degree on your career planning. Deepen your knowledge of the drivers and consequences of the digital transformation. Give your degree programme direction and purpose in line with your personal interests, strengths and visions by pursuing two specialisations:

  • IT Management & International Sales Management

  • IT Management & People and Culture

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Admission requirements

Undergraduate academic requirements

You must either have the German "Fachhochschulreife" or its equivalent, e.g. qualifications such as the International Baccalaureate or the English "A" levels. As a rule, this requires the successful completion of 12–13 years of school education in your home country. Applicants from some countries also need to have begun or even completed further studies.

Postgraduate academic requirements

You should have successfully completed your Bachelor's degree by the start of your Master's degree in Business Management and have a business administration component of 30 ECTS. Regardless of whether you have completed your Bachelor's degree with 180 or 210 ECTS, at HdWM you have the opportunity to enter the Business Management Master's degree. It is also possible to credit advance payments (work experience, etc.).

English proficiency

  • *IELTS

    6

  • TOEFL iBT

    85

  • PTE

    59

Documents required

  • CV
  • Motivation letter, about 1 page
  • School leaving certificate
  • Copy of your ID-card
  • Certificate about language proficiency (For non-native speakers of English/German. English track programmes

    upper B2, German track programmes: C1. All common language tests/statements of schools and universities about language proficiency can be accepted)

  • Letters of recommendation of former employees or other certificates (if applicable)
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Fees and funding

Funding

At HdWM, students from all study courses can be awarded scholarships in two different programs. Awardees obtain €300 per month for one to two semesters.

The Deutschlandstipendium

Is a merit-based scholarship program, which is also awarded to students who show high social commitment or who live in difficult circumstances. The call for applications takes place at the beginning of every semester. All students will be informed about the application deadlines in time via email.

The Social Leadership Scholarship

Directed at students with exceptional social commitment. Potential awardees are nominated by HdWM employees and selected by a committee.

Fee information

  • Bachelor's program tuition

    €7,080 per year

  • Master's program tuition

    €8,280 per year

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