Europe · who awards a management degree

MBA institutes in Germany

12 institutions that award management qualifications in Germany, grouped by what kind of body each one is — because that, not a ranking, is what decides whether the award holds up where you need it.

12institutions listed
3kinds of body
1open universities
US$400our own programme

01 · How the system works

What to check in Germany

🚩 Germany has the hardest gate in Europe for a foreign qualification. The ZAB maintains anabin, a public database classifying foreign institutions; if the awarding institution is not classified as recognised there, the file usually stops before anyone reads your transcript. Check anabin first — it is free. Germany also runs Europe’s largest distance university.

If you take a qualification abroad and bring it back here, it is assessed by the Zentralstelle für ausländisches Bildungswesen (ZAB), which maintains the anabin database of recognised foreign institutions. The process there: Zeugnisbewertung. All 104 countries are mapped here.

A listing is not a recommendation. These institutions award management qualifications in this country. We do not claim any of them currently runs an online or distance MBA, what it costs, or that it is good — we have no verified data on any of that and neither does anyone else publishing a ranking. Ask the institution directly, and ask for the total fee in writing. The five questions to put to them are here.

02 · The institutions

12 in Germany, by kind of body

Name, city and what kind of institution it is. Nothing else, because nothing else is verifiable from here.

Disclosure. We run one of the programmes on this site — the IICT and IIPM online MBA, described here. It is deliberately excluded from every directory page, including this one, so you can weigh it against these institutions rather than find it seeded among them.
Open university1 · distance and online is its statutory purpose
FernUniversität in HagenHagen
Public university4 · awards its own degree
Mannheim Business SchoolMannheimTechnical University of MunichMunichUniversity of CologneCologneLudwig Maximilian University of MunichMunich
Private university7 · awards its own degree
WHU — Otto Beisheim School of ManagementVallendarESMT BerlinBerlinFrankfurt School of Finance & ManagementFrankfurtHHL Leipzig Graduate School of ManagementLeipzigEBS UniversitätOestrich-WinkelKühne Logistics UniversityHamburgIU International University of Applied SciencesErfurt
Your online MBA institute. We teach the curriculum free and in full, and we run our own online MBA with IICT and IIPM — an autonomous institute award, not a university degree. Everything else on this site describes programmes we do not run, and our own is kept out of those rankings. How that works
Apply — US$400 complete fee