Business Administration at University of Cologne

About

Being able to choose from five different specialisation fields, you will select one major and start the focus on that respective field from the beginning. The focus can be put on the following disciplines within business administration: accounting and taxation corporate development finance marketing supply chain management The MSc Business Administration at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Cologne broadens the knowledge that you have gained in your Bachelor's studies and makes you an expert in your respective area. For many managing positions of different industries and for certain professions in research and teaching, a Master's is indispensable. In order to get an individual impression of the various career prospects, please read ourÂ interviews with graduates. As the University of Cologne is state-funded, there are no tuition fees, just a biannual â€œsemester contributionâ€ of slightly more than 250 EUR, which includes the semester ticket for public transport throughout North Rhine-Westphalia. So, with us, you can invest in an excellent education â€“ and your professional future â€“ without paying a fortune. Since many of our courses are delivered in English, you can complete the Master's programme mostly in English. For ourÂ Master of Science in Business Administration, we have applications from a large number of different nationalities, which means you can be sure of an international and intercultural environment. Our cooperation agreements with an extensive number of excellent partner universities worldwide provide you with attractive options to spend a term abroad. In addition, you may enrich your studies through our short programmes in New York and Hong Kong or through a summer school. You can find more information and options at www.international.wiso.uni-koeln.de, or you can Google "WiSo international". As a student of the WiSo Faculty, you gain from an approach that is based on theory and methods, combining both research and teaching with practical elements. The teaching at our faculty has benefited from many years of experience in working with companies and visiting lecturers from different professional fields. Many of the visiting lecturers are professionals and managers who bring important industry experience to the programmes, resulting in sector-specific, up-to-date programme content for our students. This ensures that the programmes reflect the real world and that they thus combine practice and theory, whilst also promoting knowledge-sharing between companies and you, the student.

Requirements

Entry Requirements

Overall grade of at least 2.7 (German grading system) in the Bachelorâ€™s degree At least 78 ECTS credits in the field of business administration and economics, of this at least 48 ECTS credits in business administration andÂ at least 18 ECTS credits in economics At least 15 ECTS credits in statistics and/or mathematics (methodological expertise only, no user expertise)