WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management

The Marienburg in Vallendar is the main building of WHU.

WHU offers numerous study programs. The language of instruction for the bachelor's program is English or German, while all master's programs are taught entirely in English.[9]

• Three-year Bachelor of Science in International Business Administration Program (BSc) which includes two mandatory internships and one semester in one of WHU's international partner schools
• Three-year Bachelor of Science in Business Psychology Program (BSc) which includes two mandatory internships and one semester in one of WHU's international partner schools (started in 2022)
• One-and-a-half-year Master of Science in Management Program (MSc) consecutive to the Bachelor of Science program
• One-and-a-half-year Master of Science in Finance Program (MSc) consecutive to the Bachelor of Science program (started in 2013)
• One-and-half-year Master of Science in Entrepreneurship Program (MSc) consecutive to the Bachelor of Science program (started in 2017)
• One-and-half-year Master of Science in International Business Program (MSc) (started in 2021)
• Full-Time MBA Program (including visiting studies at Kellogg School of Management – Northwestern University, IIMB – Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and CEIBS – China Europe International Business School)
• Part-Time MBA Program
• Global Online MBA Program
• The Kellogg-WHU Global Executive MBA Program in partnership with Kellogg School of Management – Northwestern University, Evanston/Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Doctoral Program (students are awarded the German PhD equivalent Dr. rer. pol.)
• Executive Education (customized programs for companies and open General Management programs)

The tuition fee per academic year 2020/2021 for WHU Bachelor's students is €13,800 for those who are citizens of EEA countries and Switzerland, and €21,900 for citizens of non-EEA countries.[10] The tuition fee for the Master of Science in management, finance and entrepreneurship programs are €24,300 for the 90 credit track and €32,400 for the 120 credit track.[11] Scholarships, tuition waivers and financial aid schemes are available for eligible students.

The selection process for the undergraduate studies consists of two separate parts. Students are preselected according to their academic and personal achievements and are offered a chance to compete for one of the roughly 200 seats per year at the final selection day. During that day, candidates deliver presentations, interview representatives of the private business sector and go through an analytical IQ Test.

All WHU degree programs are recognized by the German state and accredited by the Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA). In addition, WHU holds accreditations from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and from the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS).[12] Together with ESMT Berlin, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and the University of Mannheim, WHU is one of four German business schools to hold both AACSB and EQUIS accreditations.

WHU is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious business schools in the German-speaking (DACH) world. Its masters in management program has been ranked first in Germany for nine times in the last decade by Financial Times, including five consecutive years between 2013 and 2017.[13][14][15][16][17] The Economist placed WHU third worldwide in its inaugural Master in Management ranking published in 2017.[18] In 2019, Times Higher Education ranked WHU third worldwide in its Master in Management ranking.[3] As of 2020, WHU's placement and career services have been ranked among the top two worldwide for the eleventh time in a row by the Financial Times' Masters in Management rankings.[19] WHU has maintained the first position in Germany in every Master in Management ranking published by The Economist and QS till date.[20][21]

In 2020, the Financial Times ranked WHU first in Germany for all its programs: MBA, Master in Management, Executive MBA, and Master in Finance.[22][23][24][25] In the list of business schools with most unicorn founders, WHU is placed fourth globally tied with INSEAD, behind Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.[7] According to the BYU PhD ranking that tracks alumni publications in 12 leading accounting journals, the doctoral program placed fifth worldwide in the Managerial Accounting category.[26] WHU's SCM Group ranked first in Germany and sixth globally for Supply Chain Management empirical research in 2020 according to the SCM Journal List ranking.[27]

As of 2020, WHU's joint Executive MBA program with Kellogg School of Management has been placed first in Germany for the twelfth time in a row by Financial Times. In The Economist ranking of EMBA programs in 2020, the joint Kellogg-WHU EMBA Program ranked first in Germany for the fourth time in a row and fourth worldwide.[28]

The faculty at WHU is organized into six groups: Finance and Accounting, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing and Sales, and Supply Chain Management. As of September 2021, there are 40 full professors and 19 assistant professors at WHU who teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels and contribute to the business school's research output:[29]

The faculty includes the following centers: WHU Asia Center, Biopharma Management Center, Center for Collaborative Commerce, Center for Controlling & Management, Entrepreneurship Center, Center for European Studies, Center of Asset and Wealth Management, Center for Sports and Management, Financial Accounting and Tax Center, Henkel Center for Consumer Goods, Center for Market-Oriented Corporate Management, Center for Responsible Leadership and Wipro Center for Business Resilience.[30]

WHU student clubs

Students at WHU founded a large variety of student clubs.[31] Among them are the conferences of the "Campus for..." - series:

• WHU – Campus for Finance[32]
• WHU – Campus for Supply Chain Management[33]
• WHU – Campus for Controlling[34]
• WHU – Campus for Strategy and Leadership[35]
• WHU – Campus for Marketing[36]
• WHU – Campus for Sales[37]
• WHU – Campus for Corporate Transformation (although part of the "WHU Campus for" series of conferences, the WHU CCT conference was not a student initiative, but was organized by Serden Özcan, Chairholder of the Otto Beisheim Endowed Chair of Innovation and Corporate Transformation at the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management)[38][39]

Further student clubs are:

• 3 Day Startup[40]
• BusinessMeetsTech
• WHU Charity Concerts
• confluentes[31]
• Diversity & LGBT at WHU[41]
• Enactus WHU[31]
• Entrepreneurship Roundtable[42]
• FEM. - The WHU Female Leadership Initiative
• forumWHU
• WHU Music Club
• WHU Sports Club (HSSV)[31]
• IdeaLab![31]
• In Vino Veritas
• RCDS at WHU (Ring of Student Christian Democrats)
• SAIDIA Consulting[31]
• SensAbility[31]
• SmartUp![31]
• Start-Up Academy (by Jugend gründet & WHU)
• WHU Students' Theater Group[31]
• TEDx WHU[31]
• Tradity meets WHU
• Vallendar Integration Program (VIP)
• WHU Finance Society e.V.[31]
• WHU Debate Society
• WHU Euromasters[31]
• WHU Family Business Club
• WHU Finance Society e.V.
• WHU First Responder[31]
• WHU GenerationsCup
• WHU Golf
• WHU Inside Business - video magazine
• WHU MBA Consulting Club
• WHU Social Democratic and Ecological Association (Fostering socio-political awareness at WHU)
• WHU Students Help e.V.[43]
• WHU Walks for Charity
• WHU Women in Business

• WHU homepage
• Spiegel Business School Rankings 2005
• Alumni organisation