Advanced Management (MSc)

1^st semester

• Fundamentals of Business Administration, such as Human Resources and Marketing
• Economics
• Business Analytics

2^nd semester

• Advanced Business Administration, such as Leadership
• Accounting and Taxation
• Finance and Controlling
• International Strategic Management

In the 3rd and 4th semesters, you will focus on one of two specializations—International Brand and Sales Management or Strategy, Sustainability, and Business Transformation—and complete your master’s thesis. You choose one specialization, allowing you to further refine your professional profile.

Starting in the third semester, you’ll specialize in a specific area of focus as you continue your studies. This allows you to develop a personalized skill set that’s perfectly aligned with your career goals. The areas of focus cover key future-oriented topics in management and address questions such as:

• International Brand and Sales Management
  How is a strong brand built, and how does it remain successful? What are sales and growth strategies? How do you find out what customers want? Why and how do you collect and use market and customer data?
• Strategy, Sustainability, and Business Transformation
  What environmental and social issues exist worldwide? How can change within a company be implemented successfully and sustainably? How do you measure whether a company is acting sustainably? What are environmentally friendly business models, and what responsibilities do companies have toward the environment and society?

Upon graduation, the Master of Advanced Management program equips you to take on management and leadership roles, assume entrepreneurial responsibilities, or pursue independent academic research, such as a doctoral degree.

Thanks to the program’s versatile structure, you are not limited to traditional business administration roles. Graduates work, for example, in marketing and sales, strategy, management consulting, project management, sustainability, innovation, or transformation. Jobs in international companies, startups, nonprofit organizations, or the public sector are also possible.

• Completed university studies with at least 180 ECTS
• Grade 2,5 or better
• English language skills on level B2
• For international applicants: German language skills on level C1
  (The language certificate must be submitted for enrollment.)
• The programme is approval-free

Winter semester: 02.05. – 31.08. 
- for the winter semester it is possible to start in the 1st semester.
- if at least 2 modules from the 1st semester are creditable due to your previous studies, it is possible to bring forward the 3rd semester.

Summer semester: 15.11. – 15.02. extended to 23.02.2026
for the summer semester it is only possible to enter the 2nd semester.

For non-EU applicants:
Winter semester: 02.05. – 15.07.
Summer semester: 15.11. – 15.01.

You can apply for the 2nd semester in the HNU application portal (opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) for the respective summer semester. Admission is granted if at least two modules from the 1st semester are recognised. You will receive information about the recognition process by email once your application has been reviewed by the Office of Studies.

If you are already enrolled at HNU, you can apply via the Campus Portal (opens in a new window) under “Studies offered” → “Study application”. Recognition requests can be submitted using your HNU account via PIM.