Master of Business Administration in International Management (MBA)

The MBA International Management (MBA IM) at Pforzheim University Business School helps you to tackle the challenges of the 21st century. Today's business world is changing at a rapid pace, and executive managers and employees are confronted with immense challenges: an intensifying globalisation of economies, societies, environment, and cultures, the emergence of new technologies, the prevalence of information and communication technology in our professional lives and increasing public expectations with respect to firms' social and environmental responsibilities. The conditions under which executive managers have to act and make decisions are volatile and more uncertain than ever before. Firms will only withstand future competition successfully if they are able to face these 21st century challenges head on by exploiting opportunities and minimising risks. Companies and their executives must adjust flexibly and innovate to handle continuously changing conditions. The aim of the Pforzheim MBA International Management programme is to enable you, as a future manager, to meet these challenges for the benefit of your company. To achieve this, the Pforzheim MBA follows a two-tier strategy that will provide you with a distinct competitive advantage for the business of tomorrow. An international, generalist and profound classical management foundation is integrated with the most relevant future topics: Innovation Management & Digital Business as well as Sustainable Globalisation. According to individual interests, you can choose from a variety of electives in the second and third semesters. You can deepen your knowledge in Marketing, Finance & Accounting, Big Data & Artificial Intelligence or Recent Developments in Management & Business Transformation. Moreover, you may take part in a company project that is offered in the third semester. In these real-life projects, students get the chance to put into practice what they have learned in class. Optionally, the third semester can be spent at one of our partner universities in Asia, Europe or the Americas. We also offer a Double Degree option with the ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. In the event that you gained your first degree in Germany and have not worked or studied abroad in the past, the programme includes a semester abroad at one of our partner universities. The Pforzheim Business School was accredited by AACSB International in 2011 and was the first university of applied sciences in Germany to receive this prestigious seal. Since then, it has been re-accredited twice, 2017 and 2022, which certifies that Pforzheim University's degree programmes meet the highest standards in teaching, research and in the transfer of knowledge to business and society. Less than five percent of business schools worldwide have earned this hallmark of excellence in management education. In Germany, only eleven universities out of about 200 with business programmes are AACSB accredited.