Munich Business School Press Room

The new MBS Boost Option enables MBA students and Executive Education course participants at Munich Business School to deepen their knowledge by completing the Professional Development Programs offered by the Division of Continuing Education at Harvard University.

The current university ranking U-Multirank, published on September 21, 2021, awards Munich Business School (MBS) as in previous years top marks in an international comparison of universities. In the categories Teaching & Learning and International Orientation as well as in the subcategories Professional Publications and Graduate Companies, MBS is among the top group in each case. For the sixth time in a row, the university is also among the “Global Top 25 Performers” in terms of student mobility.

On September 28, Munich Business School will launch the newly designed extra-occupational Digital Sports Business Manager course to actively support the sporting goods industry on its path to digital transformation. The further education program is offered in cooperation with the Bundesverband der Deutschen Sportartikel-Industrie e.V. (BSI), the sporting goods magazine SAZsport and the consulting firm The Retail Performance Company.

The graduates of Munich Business School are highly valued young professionals on the job market. This is confirmed by the WirtschaftsWoche University Ranking 2021, in which MBS ranks third in the category of German universities of applied sciences in the field of business administration, thus defending its distinction as Germany’s best private business school from the previous year.

Global-mindedness and treating others with respect have always been central values of Munich Business School. Until now, these values have primarily served to address and communicate with our target audience: our students. However, by signing the German Diversity Charter (Charta der Vielfalt) , Munich Business School has now given a clear sign of its commitment to diversity and tolerance in the world of work.

Munich Business School is the first German university to switch completely to the sustainable search engine Ecosia. By installing Ecosia as the default search engine on all computers at the business school, the university will plant thousands of new trees worldwide each year.

Munich Business School celebrates its 30th anniversary this year with a wide range of online events. The central element of the anniversary activities are public speaker events with company representatives from Bosch, Telefónica, Microsoft and the Otto Group on forward-looking topics in the world of work.

After Nathalie von Seyfried’s resignation, the successor for the position of Chancellor at Munich Business School has now been determined. Dr. Christine Menges will complete the university’s management team as of March 1, 2021.

In the recently published CHE Master Ranking, MBS master’s students are very satisfied with the general study situation and rate Munich Business School with an overall grade of 1.5, making MBS once again one of the best universities of applied sciences in Germany and enabling it to further improve its 2017 results.

After a total of ten years in various positions at MBS, Nathalie von Seyfried says farewell to the higher education landscape: At the end of October, the Chancellor of Munich Business School will resign from her position at her own request in order to focus on a new challenge.

In addition to Rita Niedermayr, the MBS Advisory Board receives further growth and is now also supported by Anna Kopp, IT Director Germany and Regional Office Lead Munich HQ at Microsoft GmbH as well as Board Member of the Microsoft Women’s Network Germany since September 1, 2020. 

The Managing Director of the Controller Insitut in Vienna, Dr. Rita Niedermayr, will join the Advisory Board of Munich Business School as of September 1, 2020.

Munich Business School (MBS) receives institutional accreditation from the German Council of Science and Humanities for another five years. With the renewed accreditation, the Council of Science and Humanities certifies that MBS offers a high-quality range of programs that meet recognized scientific standards.

In the current edition of the Trendence Graduate Barometer, Munich Business School once again scores top positions in the most important categories, thus confirming and extending its ratings from previous years.

The current U-Multirank university ranking published on June 9, 2020 confirms Munich Business School (MBS) as one of the best performing universities around the globe. In particular, the private university of applied sciences can convince with top results in the ranking categories “International Orientation” and “Teaching and Learning”.

The CHE University Ranking published this week attests Munich Business School (MBS) a very good personal support of its students as well as a high degree of internationality and practical orientation of its study programs. In all three categories, the private business school made it into the top groups and was thus able to further expand its positive results from the past years.

Human resources managers of German companies once again confirm that graduates of Munich Business School (MBS) are among the most sought-after young professionals among employers. In the University Ranking 2020 of WirtschaftsWoche, MBS occupies fourth place among all German universities of applied sciences in the field of business administration and can thus further expand its rankings from previous years.

In order to ensure that students can continue their studies even in times of the corona crisis, Munich Business School (MBS) switched to online teaching within a few days and without a single interruption in teaching. Since March 16, MBS students and faculty have been learning and teaching digitally. In addition, the university is looking to the future and has already worked out further digital measures should the current situation last longer.