European Master of Business Sciences
The integrated European course, founded by European universities (EMBS consortium) with the support of the EU , has been taking into account the new requirements for university education in business administration (and also economics ) that result from the creation of a common European market since 1991 . The close cooperation between European universities and the mutual recognition of study periods to be completed abroad as well as coursework and examinations to be achieved there offer students the opportunity to acquire business (economic) specialist knowledge with a European focus in a reasonable time. The concept of integrated courses is designed within the framework of cooperation between certain European universities in such a way that the graduates can qualify according to the requirements of the European labor market.
In Germany , the EMBS offers the opportunity to acquire an international master’s degree without major effort, in addition to the diploma degrees that are common here in business administration or economics. Due to the change from more and more diploma degrees to Bachelor / Master degrees , a restructuring of the EMBS is to be expected in the near future, especially for the participating German universities.
Admission requirements
As a prerequisite for admission to this course, it is required that the applicants belong to the upper third of a year with their pre-examination results (participants must be able to prove “outstanding academic performance” (grades from the intermediate diploma)). Since the EMBS course is specifically geared towards the professional profiles of the common market, the graduates have favorable job market opportunities.
Temporal structure of the course
- Basic studies at the home university (degree in Germany with an intermediate diploma)
- 1 year study at the host university
- Degree from home university
Content structure of the main course
Proof of 6 modules plus diploma thesis on a Europe-related topic.
Subject canon of the universities participating in the EMBS consortium
- Accountancy
- Management of Information Systems
- Economics
- Finance
- General and Strategic Management
- Human resource management
- marketing
- Production
- Quantitative Methods
- From the 9 "core areas" 4 must be selected in which exams are taken
- plus module "European Affairs" (cultural, historical, linguistic, legal, political and / or geographical aspects of the European question)
- plus a "free" module / subject, depending on the offer or requirements of the home university
- Workload for each module 20 ECTS credits or one third of an academic year
- During the year abroad, two of the “core areas” plus the “European Affairs” module must be completed
- Diploma thesis in economics with reference to Europe
Participating universities (EMBS consortium)
Participation in the EMBS course is possible at the following universities:
- ESC Clermont Business School
- School of Management de Normandy
- Montpellier Business School
- University of Granada
- Alcalá University
- Université Jean Moulin Lyon III
- Aston University, Birmingham
- Otto Friedrich University , Bamberg
- Birmingham University
- École Supérieure de Commerce de Brest
- Cracow Academy of Economics
- University of Cordoba
- Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
- School of Management de Normandy
- University of Mannheim
- University of Southern Denmark , Odense
- University of Pavia
- Reading University
- University of Regensburg
- Institut d'Etudes Commerciales Supérieure de Strasbourg
- University of Stuttgart
- University of Wales, Swansea
- University of Vienna
Further information
Graduation: own EMBS graduation certificate, shows the grades of the core areas, the diploma thesis and an overall grade (with distinction, with merit, or if worse: certificate without special distinction).