Global Management & Governance – (M.A.)

The Master course in Global Management & Governance offers people who are working and interested in studying the opportunity to qualify themselves for global management tasks after completing a first university degree in business administration.

The HSBA M.A. programme, which can be taken while working full-time, makes it possible for the person to plan her or his career. Master students can pursue their career aims in their companies and at the same time develop at the HSBA their methodological and specialist competences for the global requirements of the business world. These competences are then expressed by the student achieving the “Master of Arts” (M.A.) degree.

Core elements:

* Course start: October 1st every year
* Duration: 30 months
* Extent: Approx. 900 hours of tuition
* The study programme accompanies normal work: tuition is held during regular working weeks and at extended weekends (Thursday to Saturday).
* The study programme concentrates on in-depth academic studies of Business Administration issues with a special focus on Internationality and Governance
* Patronage and mentoring by the ‘Versammlung eines Ehrbaren Kaufmanns zu Hamburg’
* Officially and internationally recognised Master of Arts (M.A.) degree, entitling the graduate to apply for a doctorate (assuming that 300 credit points, including the first degree, have been acquired)
* Credit points: 120
* Studying in seminar groups of not more than 24 students
* Tuition in English
* Tuition fees: 7,500 Euro per semester, in total 37.500 Euro. Support from grants of the HSBA student support fund is possible. Partial payment of the tuition fees by the employer may be agreed. In addition, banks cooperating with the HSBA offer student loans on special terms.