Master of Business Administration (MBA) of Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

Managers and Trainees as well as workers of all subjects, who want to 

• take responsibility in the field of management,
• combine leading and strategic thinking
• refresh or gain knowledge in the field of economics and management.

Subjects: Economic Fundamentals & Entrepreneurship, Accounting & Controlling, Finance & Taxation, Production & Logistics & Operations Research, Marketing & International Management, Personnel & Information Management, Strategy & Behaviour, Globalization & Economic Policy

Language: English

Mode of Study: (online-)hybride lectures, seminars, discussion, presentation, small group size (max. 40 participants)

Exams: written exam, presentation, written papers, graded homeworks, Master's Thesis. 

• 2 years (1.4 years lectures and 0.6 years Master's Thesis
• lectures during weekdays
• 24 lectures, 2 seminars, Master's Thesis
• 120 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System)

Triple Guaranty:

• Recognized by German government
• Accreditated by Akkreditierungs-, Certifizierungs- und Qualitätssicherungs-Institut ACQUIN and EVALAG
• Served as a model of Science Council Germany

Introduction to Management I + II
Students acquire a basic knowledge of management and the organisational environment in this course. This includes strategic management, decision making, marketing and international business.

Introduction to Economics
This course is an introduction to microeconomics and macroeconomics. It seeks to explain the behaviour of economic actors as well as the behaviour of the aggregate economy.

Business Statistics and Mathematics
Here students gainan understanding of the basic mathematical methods and algorithms re-quired for business and economics. They will learn to apply basic techniques of data explora-tion and visualization.

Introduction to Law
This course provides students with the basic knowledge of the principles of German Constitutional Law, Euro-pean Law and Civil Law. They will learn how to apply law by solving cases.

Financial Accounting
This course addresses the fundamentals of accounting and aims at students making appropriate accounting judgements. It also looks at balance sheets, income statements and owner’s equity.

Cost Accounting
This course gives an overview about internal used methods to collect information for a better company decission making. All input costs related to the transformation process are important. 

Risk Management
This course provides an overview of global banking regulations and the institutional frame-work of the risk management cycle. Students learn how to identify risks and how to measure them using different approaches to analyse risk.

Capital Budgeting
An introduction to financial management, this course enables students to acquire basic knowledge about valuation of investments using analytical tools.

Corporate Finance
This course provides further insights into financial management and methods to judge investments, including exposure to forward rates, swaps and capital structure.

Capital Markets
Students learn how to select portfolios using statistical methods. In addition, they study the basic concept of capital market theory.

Logistics
Logistics and supply chain management today represents a both great challenge and a tremendous opportunity for most firms. The most important concepts, methods, and techniques of managing logistics and supply chain will be discussed in the course using examples, cases, numerical illustrations and problems.

Production Management
This course investigates the responsibilities, problems, and necessary coordination for creat-ing products and providing services using Operation Management techniques. Topics cov-ered include forecasting, planning, materials management strategies, inventory control, scheduling, and quality assessment.

Operations Research
Students learn how to use analytical tools in operations research such as linear program-ming, discrete optimisation, metaheuristics and dynamic programming.

Marketing
Students acquire a basic understanding of marketing as a business function as well as a stra-tegic management concept. This includes information about the marketing process, custom-er relationship, product life cycle and analytical tools.

International Management
This course examines the differences between international and non-international manage-ment. Topics covered are: organisational forms for international expansion, tools for limiting risks in international business, international workforce and negotiations.

Personnel Management
This course introduces fundamental concepts and models of personnel economics with special ref-erence to problems in international corporations.

Organisation Theory
Students examine basic concepts concerning organisations and the influence of their structure on doing business.

Introduction to Game Theory
As an introduction to strategic decision making this course explores how strategic interactions among economic agents influence the outcome.

Decision Theory
Decision Theory is concerned with the question of identifying the principles that guide individuals in making decisions.

Economic Policy
Students become familiar with the fundamentals of the economics of the public sector including the differ-ent cases of market failure.

Macroeconomics
Students acquire an analytical understanding of the determinants of economic growth and business cycles.

International Economics
Students are introduced to the fundamentals of international trade and finance theories and develop a thorough understanding of the real and monetary aspects of globalisation.

Seminar I + II
This course introduces to and improves their skills in academic writing. Seminar papers will be written in team-work usually accompanied by a presentation.

Master Thesis
A final master’s thesis is to be submitted for successful completion of the programme.

Only available in German

 MBA-Studienordnung (2012)
 MBA-Prüfungsordnung (2012)

Magdeburg is a modern city with more than 1200 years history, lying in Central Germany. It is the capital of Saxony-Anhalt, which is located on the Elbe River and has approximately 230,000 inhabitants. Nowadays Magdeburg is an industrial and trading center.

There is a lot to discover in Magdeburg. The city is not only characterized by historical build-ings, but also modern architectures. The activities and attractions are diversified. The river Elbe and city parks provide an idyllic environment for boat trips, bicycle tours and other our-door activities. Besides, theatres, museums and modern bars with interesting cultural and musical events also add more entertaining variety to daily life.

Futhermore, being the town of two universities, Otto-von-Guericke University and the Mag-deburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Magdeburg creates an opportunity for people to get to know students all around the world and experience multi-caltural atmosphere.

More information can be found in the following here.

Magdeburg can be easily accessed by both train and car. There are three international airports that are located near Magdeburg:

1. The BER airport in Berlin

You can take common train from the BER to Magdeburg. Please pay attention that you will need to switch the train at least once. Depending on your time of arrival, it might take 2.5 - 3 hours. 

2. The LEJ airport Leipzig/Halle

There is a direct train connection between LEJ and Magdeburg. The journey will take about one hour.

3. The HAJ airport in Hanover 

Please note that you will need to swich trains at least once. There is a suburban railway that will bring you to the main station. The journey will also take approximately about 2 hours. 

We recommend that you consult the timetable information for all journeys by Deutsche Bahn. Magdeburg Hauptbahnhof is the main station that you might want to travel to.

Going by car

Please use a navigation system and enter 

Otto-von-Guericke Universität
street: Universitätsplatz 2
ZIP: 39106
city: Magdeburg

This will lead you directly to the main entrance of the university. 

Moving around in the city itself

In Magdeburg, trams and buses are the common public transportation which can reach most of places in the city. Please pay attention that night lines are different from day time lines. You can find the time plans at each tram or bus station. All information is also available online.
Taxi is another choice. Normally you need to call the taxi company to book the taxi, however, you can find waiting taxi outside the train station. In general, it holds that a taxi that is available has a shining yellow sign on the car's roof. If the sign is not lit, the taxi is already taken. 

You can find some general information about the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg here.

There are also some Chinese information that you can find here.

On arrival in Germany you will soon realise that there are some bureaucratic barriers to pass. The Business School Magdeburg therefore has English, French, Spanish and Chinese speaking assistants who are happy to help you out with your first steps in Magdeburg. Here is an overview of what to do:

Before coming to Magdeburg

• Obtain your Visa
• Open a bank account
• Prepare the following material:
  1. biometric ID pictures since you’ll need them for university or health insurance documents
  2. Personal documents (ID, Visa…)
  3. recommended: copies of all personal documents for your own safety

We provide a pick-up service from Berlin Airports for groups larger than 5 persons. If you would like to make use of this, please contact us in advance and inform us of your estimated time of arrival. Besides, we will also support you in the following:

• Obtaining our information material
• Finding accommodation (e.g. a flat, or shared accommodation) and organising a tenancy/rental agreement.
• Going to the Residents’ Registration Office (Bürgerbüro) to register as a resident of Magdeburg and get a certificate of registration – “Meldebescheinigung”. You need to bring a valid identification document/passport, the admission letter from your study programme and a tenancy/rental agreement with you.
• Verifying your bank account
• Organising health insurance needed for university registration (or bring your European Health Insurance Card)
• Enrolling at the university
  • Getting your student identity card, which also serves as public transport ticket and cash card at the university’s restaurant
  • Registering at the library
  • Remembering to re-register your student ID card every semester
• Getting a mobile phone number and internet contract.
• Extending your visa within 3 months
• Enjoying life! 

• Cancel all contracts (flat, internet, health insurance) 3 months in advance! (This is only a recommendation – specific periods of notice can be found in your contracts. Notice of cancellation should be in writing, i.e. a letter)
• Deregistration from the university (Exmatrikulation) and from the Residents’ Registration Office. (Note that your student visa is no longer valid after you complete your study programme.)

Please note that we are happy to provide you with recommendations regarding banks, health insurances or flats. Our recommendations are all based on experience, but they are only recommendations. Business School Magdeburg is not liable for any resulting problems.

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