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Degree
MBA

Language
EN

Tuition Fee
EUR 49,500*

Application Deadline
31 July

Programme Start
19 Sep

Duration
18 months | Part-time

FT EMBA Ranking 2022 - rank 62

The Executive MBA targets experienced business managers who display the personal, academic and professional readiness for transforming themselves into visionary and responsible leaders. 

Students who embark on the EMBA journey achieve such transformation by deepening their subject matter knowledge across the discipline of management.  By working in diverse teams throughout this rigorous study programme, travelling to study abroad and being exposed to faculty and industry leaders from around the globe, students expand their network across industries, increase their intercultural competencies and boost their leadership skills

*Please note that there is an additional enrolment fee of 350 EUR after enroling into the programme.

The Application is free of charge.

Learning Goals

LG1: In-depth knowledge of executive leadership and general management, as well as business acumen

Graduates have an integrated understanding and strategic perspective of a senior executive or entrepreneur who administrates business and leads people in the 21st century. Graduates possess an acute perception of contemporary management challenges and provide thought leadership. They draw upon sound functional and cross-functional knowledge of management concepts and disciplines and develop innovative solutions that work in the real world.

LG2: Independent and critical thinking skills to generate innovative solutions and make balanced strategic decisions in a global environment

Graduates combine independent, forward-oriented thinking with business acumen, executive-level management techniques and quality decision-making to address business challenges and implement effective solutions. Based on sound qualitative and quantitative research and rigorous analysis, they are able to identify opportunities, ideate innovative solutions and implement them effectively and efficiently.

LG3: Effective executive communication, collaboration and cooperation skills

Graduates master concise and effective spoken and written communication based on emotional intelligence and intercultural sensitivity. They present, discuss and defend fact-based arguments that convince their audience, move people to congruent action and achieve positive change when necessary. As both leaders and members of teams, they set high standards, establish trust and create an environment of collaboration and cooperation that inspires high performance.

LG4: Responsible, inspirational and ethical leaders of management teams and organisations

Graduates are self-aware and mindful leaders with the character needed for leading in any organisational or cultural context and in the global environment. They decide and act based on ethical considerations, comply with regulatory requirements and enhance the well-being of their stakeholders, organisations, society and the environment.

Requirements

  • First academic degree or equivalent
  • At least 7 years of work experience with appropriate managerial responsibility
  • Proficiency in English

Please note: Once admitted to the programme, we require a certified/notarised paper copy of your first academic degree certificate.

Deadlines & Discounts

Tuition fee EUR 49,500
Early Bird (apply by 29 February)* EUR 5,000
Early Bird (apply by 31 May)* EUR 2,500

Included in the tuition fee are all study materials, textbooks and coffee breaks. Furthermore, two elective courses are included. Not included in the tuition fee are most meals, travel and accommodation. Should you decide to opt for a full upfront payment, you will receive a 5% reduction on tuition fees (excluding discounts).

To secure the Early Bird Discount, you simply need to submit your application before the deadline. All further application steps will be arranged afterwards.

Early Bird Discounts

Early Bird (apply by 29 February)

+    free leadership coaching
+    free pre-courses

EUR 5,000

Early Bird (apply by 31 May)
+    free pre-courses

EUR 2,500

Highlights
  • Extensive personalized career coaching and advisory services
  • International experience: One core module taking place in Dublin and one optional international elective abroad at ESADE Business School, Barcelona Spain
  • New in: one optional extracurricular international elective with KEDGE Business School in Shanghai 
  • Build a life-long network of like-minded, yet incredibly diverse peers

Information Events

Join Lectures on campus

Visit an MBA class to discuss a case study with academic staff and current EMBA students. This is your opportunity to experience typical classroom subjects, teaching techniques and learning methods. Get in touch with students and gain first hand experience.

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Meet us on campus and Online

Join us and find out how to maximise your career opportunities with an MBA at Frankfurt School. Engage with alumni & students and get career advice from our staff in the next networking event. 

Join one of our next events!

09.10.2024

MBA Online Info Session    06:30pm - 08:00pm Register here

Time Schedule

  • 3 x block weeks (Monday - Saturday)
  • 12 x extended weekends in Frankfurt (Friday - Sunday)
  • 1 x extended weekend in Dublin (Thursday - Saturday)
  • Real Life Case Study

Lecture times

Lecture times weekend modules:

  • Friday: 13:30 – 18:30 pm 
  • Saturday & Sunday: 9:15 am – 16:45 pm 

Lecture times block-week modules:

  • Monday – Saturday: 9:15 am – 16:45 pm 

Extracurricular Activities

In addition, extracurricular workshops or activities are available throughout the programme (mostly on Friday mornings before the classes start).The workshops focus on teaching you a broad range of executive skills such as leading intercultural teams, and executive presence (body language, voice, public speaking etc).  We also offer a bespoke "Women's Leadership Academy" exclusively for our female EMBAs and alumna.

*Please note, due to the part-time structure, we are not able to provide student visas. 

**Contact us if you would like to receive an overview of the 2025 academic calendar and module overview. 

Curriculum

*please click on each item of the overview below to access further information

Pre-courses

Accounting

Accounting

The optional Principles of Finance & Accounting module is aimed at students who do not have prior experience of business administration or who feel they need a refresher course.

It provides course participants with the knowledge they need to address the upcoming Finance & Accounting modules and includes the principles of capital budgeting, the basic knowledge required to assess companies’ financial situations, and the basic principles of financial reporting in conformance with national and international standards.

Accounting

  • Principles of accounting and valuation
  • Basic principles of financial accounting
  • How to analyse corporate performance indicators and use financial information
  • Basic principles of consolidation

Finance

Finance

The optional Principles of Finance & Accounting module is aimed at students who do not have prior experience in business administration or who feel they need a refresher course.

It provides course participants with the knowledge they need to address the upcoming Finance & Accounting modules and includes the principles of capital budgeting, the basic knowledge required to assess companies’ financial situations and the basic principles of financial reporting in conformance with national and international standards.

Finance

  • Basic principles of corporate finance
  • Capital budgeting
  • Capital cost accounting and risk assessment
  • Business valuation
  • Financial reporting

Quantitative Methods (Online)

Quantitative Methods (Harvard Course Online)

Quantitative Methods is an introduction to using statistical methods to solve business problems. The course teaches statistics from the management perspective and places special emphasis on developing the skills and instincts needed to make good decisions and become a more effective manager. 

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Welcome Ceremony & Leadership Camp 

Welcome Ceremony & Leadership Camp 

Connect with your Executive MBA classmates during an activity-packed team-building weekend. Start developing many of the key skills you will employ throughout the programme, including teamwork, communication and time management. 

Semester 1

Strategy & Decision Making

Module 1: The Executive Mindset
Strategy, Decision Making and Entrepreneurial Action

The opening module of the Executive MBA sets the stage for the entire programme. The module is based on the understanding that any successful executive in the 21st century will likely have to be an entrepreneurial general manager:  a hybrid person who combines strategic rigor, takes sound decisions and pushes to create and exploit (new) opportunities. 

Global Economics

Module 2: Understanding the Context
Global Economy and Digital Society

The module asks students to take a bird’s eye view of the external environment of firms. Focus will be on the global economic and technological macro-context and its influence on business opportunities and the role of politics, society and regulators

Competitive Strategy & Sustainability

Module 3: Competing for Customers
Advanced Competitive Strategy, Sustainability and Marketing

Students focus on building a science-based intellectual toolkit for mapping and implementing different scenarios. Special homage is paid to the opportunities and challenges associated with the megatrend sustainability.  The module also highlights the imperative of finding and securing customers, and to translating marketing actions into top-line revenues.

Entrepreneurial Action

Module 1: The Executive Mindset
Strategy, Decision Making and Entrepreneurial Action

The opening module of the Executive MBA sets the stage for the entire programme. The module is based on the understanding that any successful executive in the 21st century will likely have to be an entrepreneurial general manager:  a hybrid person who combines strategic rigor, takes sound decisions and pushes to create and exploit (new) opportunities. 

Digital Society

Module 2: Understanding the Context
Global Economy and Digital Society

The module asks students to take a bird’s eye view of the external environment of firms. Focus will be on the global economic and technological macro-context and its influence on business opportunities and the role of politics, society and regulators

Marketing

Module 3: Competing for Customers
Advanced Competitive Strategy, Sustainability and Marketing

Students focus on building a science-based intellectual toolkit for mapping and implementing different scenarios. Special homage is paid to the opportunities and challenges associated with the megatrend sustainability.  The module also highlights the imperative of finding and securing customers, and to translating marketing actions into top-line revenues.

Semester 2

Corporate Finance

Module 4: Creating Financial Value
Corporate Finance & Accounting

This module builds on the foundations of the pre-courses and familiarises the participants with the intertwined topic areas of finance and accounting. It does so from the strategic perspective of a general manager and corporate leader and not from the operational perspective of a functional specialist

Transformational Leadership

Module 5: Managing People
Transformational Leadership & Organisational Behaviour& Ethics

What makes a great leader? Charisma? Integrity? Power?  Vision? The ability to transform? And how can a great leader truly succeed and do so in a responsible way? This modules explores different leadership concepts and invites students to experiment with their own leadership styles.  It provides the conceptual and experiential framework for developing the key competences and the top-level mindset needed to successfully navigate oneself and others through a world that is constantly changing.  

Innovation Management

Module 7: Sustaining Success
Innovation and Change

To stay ahead in the competitive game in a fastpaced, ever-changing environment, managers and their organisations must permanently review, renew or reinvent both their external competitive offerings and their internal workings. Accordingly, this module covers both: how do companies innovate their products and services to stay relevant in their markets and how do leaders and companies change to stay relevant as humans and organisations?

Accounting

Module 4: Creating Financial Value
Corporate Finance & Accounting

This module builds on the foundations of the pre-courses and familiarises the participants with the intertwined topic areas of finance and accounting. It does so from the strategic perspective of a general manager and corporate leader and not from the operational perspective of a functional specialist

Organisational Behaviour & Ethics

Module 5: Managing People
Transformational Leadership & Organisational Behaviour& Ethics

What makes a great leader? Charisma? Integrity? Power?  Vision? The ability to transform? And how can a great leader truly succeed and do so in a responsible way? This modules explores different leadership concepts and invites students to experiment with their own leadership styles.  It provides the conceptual and experiential framework for developing the key competences and the top-level mindset needed to successfully navigate oneself and others through a world that is constantly changing.  

Change Management (Dublin)

Module 7: Sustaining Success
Innovation and Change (hosted by Trinity College, Dublin)

To stay ahead in the competitive game in a fastpaced, ever-changing environment, managers and their organisations must permanently review, renew or reinvent both their external competitive offerings and their internal workings. Accordingly, this module covers both: how do companies innovate their products and services to stay relevant in their markets and how do leaders and companies change to stay relevant as humans and organisations?

Electives

Applied Digital Transformation

Applied Digital Transformation

The course is positioned at the intersection of technology, information and people. It builds on the foundations of and reinforces the knowledge, skills and capabilities developed in the Digital Society module. Applied Digital Transformation dives into all topics of crafting and implementing a digital transformation strategy in companies, particularly about understanding the latest trends in emerging technologies, analysing and modelling business processes with a 'digital eye', identifying opportunities, crafting and implementing solutions, and developing people, organisations, and business along the way.

Building Hidden Champions

Building Hidden Champions

The course builds on the foundations of the prior EMBA core modules. It introduces participants to selected challenges that Managing Directors of SME and family businesses are likely to face throughout their careers. Drawing on academic research and practical insights, this module equips Managing Directors with a set of general management tools that allows an easier transition into and success in the context of an already existing structure.

Finance for Growth (incl. M&A)

Finance for Growth (incl. M&A)

This module builds on the foundations of the EMBA core module, Finance & Accounting. Drawing on academic research and practical insights, it helps prepare managers for future executive roles by providing an overview of more advanced issues and challenges in the realm of financial management. Critically, the module takes the strategic perspective of a general manager and not the operational perspective of a functional specialist. Accordingly, at the end of the course, participants have the necessary knowledge, skills and capabilities to effectively interact with their CFO and finance function at eye level. Participants can also actively participate in making informed and knowledgeable financial decisions.

New Venture Creation

New Venture Creation
International Week Abroad

Meet managers, academics and MBA students from Israel, broaden your intercultural skills through local exposure and benefit from Frankfurt School’s international links with another top-ranked business school.

ESADE, Barcelona: New Venture Creation

The course will begin where the Entrepreneurship module ended and helped you further build your entrepreneurial mindset and skillset. It draws on academic research and practical insights to accelerate you into the 'entrepreneurial space', from ideation of business model development and MVP conception to possible financing. Accordingly, at the end of the course, participants will have a sound conceptual understanding of the entrepreneurial process, initial experience with the key tools and techniques, and a preliminary business plan, which can quickly be realised. 

Semester 3

Strategy Implementation

Module 8: Getting Things Done
Organisational Governance & Operations Management

One of the biggest challenges for executives is how to get things done, i.e. to assure that the organisation and its people are aligned around its objectives and deliver on the competitive promises made to customers. The module covers how to organise humans and human processes as well as physical resources and physical processes for success

Managing Crisis

Module 9: In the C Suite
Managing Crisis & Negotiations

This module focuses on true boardroom skills: managing crisis calmly, engaging with various stakeholders, including disgruntled customers, nervous employees , and apologetic suppliers. The module includes media training and hones students’ negotiation skills.

Resilient & Sustainable Operations

Module 8: Getting Things Done
Organisational Governance & Operations Management

One of the biggest challenges for executives is how to get things done, i.e. to assure that the organisation and its people are aligned around its objectives and deliver on the competitive promises made to customers. The module covers how to organise humans and human processes as well as physical resources and physical processes for success

Negotiations

Module 9: In the C Suite
Managing Crisis & Negotiations

This module focuses on true boardroom skills: managing crisis calmly, engaging with various stakeholders, including disgruntled customers, nervous employees , and apologetic suppliers. The module includes media training and hones students’ negotiation skills.

Thesis Project

Consultancy Project

Consultancy Project

A Consulting Project is performed by a group of students working in consultation with their supervisor and a project leader of a relevant external company or organisation on an agreed strategy or management problem. It is expected that the Group Consulting Project results in practical, implementable recommendations for the organisation providing the project.

Entrepreneurial Business Plan

Entrepreneurial Business Plan

An Entrepeneurial Buisness Plan is a comprehensive business plan for the establishment and start-up phase of a new enterprise/ initiative, according to a set format, developed by a team of Executive MBA students.

Research Project 

Research Project 

A Research Project is a study of a practical business problem, preferably in conjunction with an external company or organisation, completed in teams or individually.

Year round

Personal Leadership Coaching

Leadership Coaching

Personalised leadership coaching is an integral component of the EMBA, sharpening leadership and management skills and helping participants to become aware of and consciously modify their individual management styles. The coaching module takes place throughout the entire EMBA programme. Starting with a team-building weekend at the beginning of the course, participants continue to receive regular advice and support from their personal coaches.

Based on an analysis of your skills and potential, we draw up an action plan with personal development goals that you can implement at work. Your personal coach then continues to provide you with advice through to the final implementation coaching session, during which you reflect on your achievements and are given recommendations that will help you with your future career planning. The coaching module also comprises group training courses that help you enhance your personal strengths while building a clear awareness of areas still in need of further development.

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Current Class Profile (Class of 2026)

Average Age 39
Average work experience 13 years
Average mgmt experience 8 years
No. of nationalities 19
Female students 39%
Male students 61%

Industry

Aviation/ Aerospace 2%
Mechanical Engineering 7%
Real Estate 7%
Healthcare/Pharmaceuticals 10%
Chemical 12%
Information Technology 12%
Banking & Financial Services 15%
Automotive & Components 15%
Others 20%

Nationalities

Germany 32%
Europe (excluding Germany) 20%
Asia 34%
Americas 12%
Africa 2%

Age

<30 2%
30-33 8%
34-37 16%
38-41 27%
42-45 20%
46-50 21%
>50 6%

Admissions Process

1. Online Application
2. One to one online Interview in English

This gives us the opportunity to get to know you better, learn about your career to date and your goals for the future. You will also get the chance to share your personal and professional achievements with us.

3. Online Assessment Centre/ Group Excercise

The purpose of this activity is to gain a better understanding of your character, personality, expectations, motivations and goals.

The group exercise gives you the opportunity to put your negotiating skills to the test while you interact with other applicants who are also attending the assessment centre.

The timeline for the Assessment Centre looks as follows:

11:30 - 12:00

Welcome Session

12:00 - 13:00

Group Activity

13:15 – 14:00

Get-together with an alumnus/alumna

Upcoming dates (online AC via zoom):
4. Results

Admissions results will be communicated as soon as possible

Financing and Scholarships

Investing in your Future

Your degree is an investment into your professional future. As a business school of international standing, not only do we offer you the best conditions for earning a degree, but we also offer excellent career prospects. We can guarantee that the quality of our teaching and research is excellent, so we expect the highest levels of commitment and motivation from our students. Your commitment is what counts.

When you decide to study at Frankfurt School, your current financial situation shouldn’t be the factor that holds you back. At the same time, it is important to make sensible preparations for funding your studies. Student finance is a complex issue and needs careful long-term planning. So take advantage of our advisory service and start your preparations by asking us for a personal consultation.

Scholarship

Frankfurt School awards attractive partial scholarships with the aim of enhancing the diversity of our Executive MBA. You can apply for up to two scholarships directly in your online EMBA application (but only one scholarship can be awarded) We offer the following scholarship options:

Diversity Scholarship

For international MBA applicants who bring diversity and a global mindset to the classroom with their background or previous experience

Entrepreneur & Leadership Scholarship

For motivated applicants with proven entrepreneurial and /or leadership skills and achievements or concrete plans of establishing their own business

High-Performing & Outstanding Candidates Scholarship

It aims to give recognition to applicants with an outstanding academic performance and career trajectory as well as an excellent admissions performance

Women in Business Scholarship

  • For female applicants who have demonstrated success, professionally or personally, in the field of business
  • Please note that we grant scholarships on an ongoing basis, therefore we recommend you to apply early.
  • Your scholarship application can only be considered if the online form is completed and submitted together with your MBA online application.

Sector-Specific Scholarship

(e.g. Engineering, Finance, Technology, Innovation) For applicants with a specialized background in any field and career trajectory in their area of expertise, who are looking to gain general management & business knowledge with an MBA to further develop their career

Alumni Discount

Frankfurt School alumni admitted to the Executive MBA programme receive an alumni discount of 10% of their studies. Please note that this amount is granted independently to possible early bird deadlines and discounts.

Women in the Executive MBA

We want to encourage and support all women in business and leadership roles to start an Executive MBA with us. Your opinions and perspectives are important and we want to create a platform where you can thrive and reach your goals. Read about the experiences of our female EMBA participants and alumni here. We also offer attractive scholarships for women in business. Contact us for more information.

In honour of all women in leadership, we launched our MBA Women’s page! Here, we highlight the stories and achievements of all women across our MBA programmes as they are redefining the meaning of success and are entering new areas of business.

Alumni & Careers

Our network of graduates is a major asset that builds bridges between academic theory and real-world practice. But above all, our graduates stay in touch with each other long after they have earned their degrees, quite independently of the years they attended the university.

Alumni & Friends

Frankfurt School’s trust-based relationships and friendships with our EMBA alumni are supported by our official Alumni & Friends department, through which we build lifelong bonds and career impacts.

Lifelong Learning

Once you graduate from the Frankfurt School EMBA programme, your experience does not have to stop. We offer you, as an alumna or alumnus, the opportunity to participate once a year in an EMBA module at Frankfurt School at no additional cost. This offers you the opportunity to continue your lifelong education while staying engaged and ahead of current trends in business.

The Executive MBA is accredited by