Rankings and
accreditations

2025: The TUM Entrepreneurship Ranking confirms Munich Business School as the university with the highest number of start-ups in Bavaria. Ranked first in the state comparison and fourth in the DACH region, MBS is one of the leading universities for start-up foundations in relation to its size. The study highlights the particular start-up dynamics of private business schools and underscores the role of MBS as a university of innovation.

• 2024 In the WiWo ranking, MBS reaches the top of Germany's private business schools for the fifth time.
• 2023 MBS is the best private business school from German employers’ perspective.
• 2022 MBS once again the most popular private University of Applied Sciences in the field of business among German recruiters.
• 2021 MBS ranks third among all universities of applied sciences in the field of business administration and is once again Germany's best private business school.
• 2020 MBS ranks fourth among all German universities of applied sciences in the area of Business Administration and is therefore the Best Private Business School in Germany.
• 2019 MBS is the Best Private University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration in Bavaria.
• 2018 MBS is the Best Private University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration and achieves rank 6 among all Universities of Applied Sciences in Germany.
• 2016 MBS is the only Private University of Applied Sciences to finish in the Top 10 eight times in a row.
• 2015 MBS is ranked 2nd among all Universities of Applied Sciences for Business Studies in Germany.

The WiWi-Talents program aims to provide students of economics and related disciplines (German: Wirtschaftswissenschaften – WiWi) with ideational support and to promote cross-regional networking between companies and the next generation of specialists and managers. Since 2005, WiWi-Media AG, together with partners from the business community, has been inviting applications bi-annually and subsequently awarding the best business students in the German-speaking region.

From the outset, Munich Business School has proven to be a real hotbed for successful applications to the WiWi-Talents program. Here, we give an overview of the awarded MBS students who, in addition to comprehensive support, were pleased to be included in the renowned WiWi-Talents book, which is presented every semester to the HR decision makers of more than 500 renowned companies in the German-speaking region:

• Summer semester 2023: Tanushree Jain, MBA General Management
• Winter semester 2022/23: Leonie Hoffmann, Bachelor International Business
• Winter semester 2020/21: Sophie Paci, Bachelor International Business
• Summer semester 2020: Lea Sofia Nikiforow, Bachelor International Business

• 2022: Munich Business School shows particular strength in terms of anchoring of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship training, and monitoring and evaluation
• 2020: Start-up support at MBS achieves an above-average overall ranking value compared to other small universities

• 2022 Top marks in several ranking categories. In addition to international orientation, the university also impresses in the categories of knowledge transfer and research.
• 2020 + 2021 MBS is once again among the Global Top 25 Performers for Student Mobility and is considered one of the best performing universities worldwide.
• 2018 + 2019 MBS is Germany’s Best Private University of Applied Sciences in “Business Studies”.
• 2017 MBS is Germany’s Best Private University of Applied Sciences in “Business Studies”.
• 2016 MBS belongs to the "Top 25 Performers" in International Orientation.

• 2020 MBS is among the Top 3 Private Universities of Applied Sciences in seven of the eight categories and No 1 in the categories internationality, faculty and library
• 2019 MBS is again Germany’s Best Private University of Applied Sciences for Business Studies in Internationality of Studies
• 2018 In the Business Field, MBS is Germany’s Best Private University of Applied Sciences for Business Studies in Internationality and Practical Relevance of Studies.
• 2017 MBS receives excellent grades for Internationality and Practical Relevance.
• 2016 Students Give Top Grades for the Practical Relevance and Internationality of the Studies at MBS.
• 2015 MBS achieves another Top Result.