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Deutsch Who is the MBA Corporate Management Distance Learning Programme Suitable For?
The MBA Corporate Management programme is aimed at professionals who aspire to a leadership role in management or corporate governance or who have already gained initial managerial experience. It is particularly targeted at graduates of business administration or economics-related degree programmes, but also at professionally qualified individuals with a commercial background who want to acquire in-depth knowledge in the areas of corporate management, digital transformation and sustainable management. The target group comprises specialists and executives, junior managers, as well as self-employed individuals who wish to expand their strategic and operational management knowledge at university level.
Admission Requirements for the MBA Corporate Management
Depending on your educational background, you require different formal certificates for admission to the MBA Corporate Management distance learning course:
- A completed university degree (e.g. Bachelor, Diploma) from a university, university of applied sciences or vocational academy with at least grade 2.5 and at least one year of professional experience after the initial degree as well as commercial practice. If the degree is below grade 2.5, a motivational interview is required.
- Professionally qualified individuals without a first degree may be admitted if they can prove the general university entrance qualification or university of applied sciences entrance qualification as well as at least three years of relevant professional experience.
- Alternatively, a completed commercial vocational training with an overall average grade of at least 2.5 (vocational training certificate and vocational school certificate) and at least three years of relevant professional experience in a commercial role is sufficient.
- Holders of a Bachelor Professional (e.g. specialist economist, commercial specialist, master craftsman, state-certified technician) can be admitted after at least one year of relevant commercial professional experience.
- A Master Professional of the third level of professional further training enables admission to the aptitude test without further relevant professional experience.
For professionally qualified applicants without a first degree, successful completion of an aptitude test is required (motivation letter, a one-hour exam and a colloquium of 20–30 minutes).
Personally, you should bring the following prerequisites:
- Willingness for self-organised, independent learning alongside your job in distance learning
- Interest in business-related issues, digitalisation and sustainable corporate management
- Initial experience in responsible, ideally also leadership positions
- Analytical thinking skills, communication ability and team orientation
- Motivation for continuous development and readiness to directly apply theoretical knowledge in practice
Which Topics Do You Deepen in the MBA in Business Management?
In the MBA programme in Business Management, you acquire comprehensive knowledge of modern business administration, digital transformation, and sustainable leadership. Already in the first semester, fundamentals such as business administration, corporate management, applied economics, digital business, and innovation are the focus. Additionally, you deepen scientific working methods, management ethics, agile methods, as well as change and transformation management in the digital context.
- Management and Digital Competence: Business administration, applied economics, innovation, scientific working methods, management ethics, digitalisation, agile methods, change management
- Marketing Management: Digital marketing, applied marketing research
- Human Resources Management: Leadership, personnel management, human resource management, organisation
- Accounting, Finance and Controlling: Management accounting, financial accounting, controlling
- Strategic Corporate Management: Sustainability, strategic management
- Strategic Marketing and Brand Management: Positioning, international marketing, brand strategies
- Supply Chain Management: Logistics, strategic value chains
- Intercultural Management: Leadership and collaboration in international contexts
- Elective Focus: Two out of three modules "Digital and Sustainable Leadership Competence" selectable (subject area: digitalisation, leadership, sustainability)
By working on practice-oriented case studies and projects, you apply what you have learned directly to business practice and develop strong leadership and management skills.
This is How the MBA in Business Management is Structured
The distance learning course is designed for four semesters (normally two years) and follows a modular structure. You study alongside your job according to the blended learning concept – a combination of self-study, digital learning platform, and hybrid attendance phases. Each semester, online and on-campus events take place over approximately four weekends at the University of Applied Sciences for Business and Society Ludwigshafen.
- Self-study: Study letters, learning software, digital materials
- Learning platform: Exchange with fellow students, access to teaching materials and online teaching events
- Attendance phases: Exercises, case study work, practical projects, direct interaction with lecturers
- Final degree: In the fourth semester, you write the master’s thesis and present the results in a disputation
The workload comprises 90 ECTS credits. The programme starts in both the summer and winter semesters and is flexibly tailored to the needs of working professionals.
What Career Opportunities Does the Degree Open Up for You?
The MBA in Business Management comprehensively qualifies you for leadership and management positions in companies, organisations, and public administration. As a graduate, you are prepared to make strategic decisions, design transformation processes, and lead teams in digital as well as international contexts.
- Typical fields of application: Executive management, department and division management, project management, consultancy roles, business development
- Diversity of industries: Industry, services, trade, non-profit organisations, public institutions
- Internationality: The contents also prepare you for leadership responsibility in international environments as well as in globally operating companies.
- Further prospects: With the MBA you gain access to the higher service sector and, depending on the university, the possibility to pursue a doctorate.
Thanks to the strong practical orientation and broad curriculum, you specifically improve your career prospects for the next step towards management responsibility.
What Costs Should You Expect and How Can You Finance the Studies?
The tuition fees amount to 2,600 euros per semester, i.e. a total of 10,400 euros for all four semesters. Additionally, a social contribution of about 150 euros per semester is payable. The fees cover all study materials as well as the use of the digital learning platform.
- Instalment payment: The fees are payable each semester.
- Funding and financing: Options for low-interest education loans, tax deductibility as business expenses, as well as support from the employer are available. Under certain conditions, funding through the Aufstiegs-BAföG is possible.
With this, you make a calculable investment in your personal and professional development in the management field.
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