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Exchange at ESMT

We look forward to welcoming incoming exchange students to our Master and MBA programs.

The ESMT International Office administers the exchange process including nomination, application, and course selection, and supports the students before, during, and after their exchange at ESMT. For general questions regarding ESMT, such as course selection, application to enrollment process, being a student at ESMT, welcome day(s) and more, feel free to email us at international-office@esmt.org. 

For more information studying at ESMT and about student life in Berlin have a look at the Student Handbook. 

 

 

Your exchange journey at ESMT

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Nomination
Nomination

To apply to study at ESMT, your host institution must first select and nominate you as an exchange student.

Nomination deadlines

  • For Autumn term 2024: 15 April 2024
  • For Spring term 2025: 01 October 2024

To apply to study at ESMT, your host institution must first select and nominate you as an exchange student.

Nomination deadlines

  • For Autumn term 2024: 15 April 2024
  • For Spring term 2025: 01 October 2024
Nomination
Application
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Application
Application

Congratulations on being nominated to ESMT!

You will receive application instructions via the email address provided in the nomination process. You will be asked to submit the following documents:

  • ID/Passport photo page
  • CV
  • Latest available transcript
  • Passport photograph / close-up photograph clearly showing your face
  • Confirmation of English language proficiency

Application deadlines

  • For Autumn term 2024: 12 May 2024
  • For Spring term 2025: 10 October 2024

If you need to apply for a visa, please do so as early as possible since the process can take very long. More information can be found below in the Student Handbook (pages 4ff), please contact us to get more information.

⇒ English language proficiency requirements

Congratulations on being nominated to ESMT!

You will receive application instructions via the email address provided in the nomination process. You will be asked to submit the following documents:

  • ID/Passport photo page
  • CV
  • Latest available transcript
  • Passport photograph / close-up photograph clearly showing your face
  • Confirmation of English language proficiency

Application deadlines

  • For Autumn term 2024: 12 May 2024
  • For Spring term 2025: 10 October 2024

If you need to apply for a visa, please do so as early as possible since the process can take very long. More information can be found below in the Student Handbook (pages 4ff), please contact us to get more information.

⇒ English language proficiency requirements

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English language proficiency requirements
  • TOEFL scores (95 minimum), PTE score (64 minimum), IELTS score (7 minimum) or other English proficiency test. 
  • ESMT Berlin accepts MyBest™ scores for the TOEFL iBT® test, in addition to TOEFL iBT scores from a single test date. The ESMT TOEFL institution code is 8707.
  • Students whose native language is English or who have earned a university degree exclusively taught in English, do not need to take an English proficiency test.
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Term Dates
Term dates

Autumn term 2024

  • 9-13 September 2024: Orientation & Welcome Week MSc students
  • 16 September 2024: First MSc course starts
  • 30 September 2024: Orientation & Welcome Day MBA students & first MBA course starts
  • 20 December 2024: Last MSc and MBA courses ends (incl. exam) 
  • Early January 2025: Further Masters courses available

Students coming in the Autumn term who require a high number of ECTS (25+), are likely going to have to take courses in January. 

Spring term 2025

Social Impact Project individual preparation (online: group forming and topic selection) starts from November 2024.

  • 06 January 2025: Orientation & Welcome Day
  • 06 January 2025: First course starts
  • 07 February 2025: Career Fair (no classes)
  • 08 March 2025: International Women's Day - public holiday (no classes)
  • 28 March 2025: End of courses, inc. any exams (subject to change)
     
  • April - May 2025: Social Impact Project delivery (SIP)
  • April - July 2025: Summer Entrepreneurship Program delivery (SEP)

Students who require more than approx. 24 ECTS are expected to take SIP or SEP. 

Autumn term 2024

  • 9-13 September 2024: Orientation & Welcome Week MSc students
  • 16 September 2024: First MSc course starts
  • 30 September 2024: Orientation & Welcome Day MBA students & first MBA course starts
  • 20 December 2024: Last MSc and MBA courses ends (incl. exam) 
  • Early January 2025: Further Masters courses available

Students coming in the Autumn term who require a high number of ECTS (25+), are likely going to have to take courses in January. 

Spring term 2025

Social Impact Project individual preparation (online: group forming and topic selection) starts from November 2024.

  • 06 January 2025: Orientation & Welcome Day
  • 06 January 2025: First course starts
  • 07 February 2025: Career Fair (no classes)
  • 08 March 2025: International Women's Day - public holiday (no classes)
  • 28 March 2025: End of courses, inc. any exams (subject to change)
     
  • April - May 2025: Social Impact Project delivery (SIP)
  • April - July 2025: Summer Entrepreneurship Program delivery (SEP)

Students who require more than approx. 24 ECTS are expected to take SIP or SEP. 

Term dates
Course selection
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Master Programs
Course selection

Masters courses

Coming on an exchange to our Master program you can take selected courses from the first and second year of the Masters programs (Master in Global Management, Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Master in Analytics and Artificial Intelligence).

Course selection

Due to potential course cancellations because of under subscription, schedule clashes, and limitations of room sizes because of over subscription, we require that you provide valid alternatives to your course choices. If specific courses are required by the sending institution, you should indicate those during the application process. Accommodations will be made wherever possible.

 

Current information

  1. The preliminary list of courses is available, you can view it in this PDF document. Course selection process will take place after the application deadline of 12 May 2024/10 October 2024. You will be invited to select your courses by submitting a course selection form.
  2. “Your exchange at ESMT” - Online Seminar: We will host an Online Seminar for you to help you prepare for your stay at ESMT. All students will be informed in due time.

 

⇒ Grading

Masters courses

Coming on an exchange to our Master program you can take selected courses from the first and second year of the Masters programs (Master in Global Management, Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Master in Analytics and Artificial Intelligence).

Course selection

Due to potential course cancellations because of under subscription, schedule clashes, and limitations of room sizes because of over subscription, we require that you provide valid alternatives to your course choices. If specific courses are required by the sending institution, you should indicate those during the application process. Accommodations will be made wherever possible.

 

Current information

  1. The preliminary list of courses is available, you can view it in this PDF document. Course selection process will take place after the application deadline of 12 May 2024/10 October 2024. You will be invited to select your courses by submitting a course selection form.
  2. “Your exchange at ESMT” - Online Seminar: We will host an Online Seminar for you to help you prepare for your stay at ESMT. All students will be informed in due time.

 

⇒ Grading

Grading

ESMT Grading scheme

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MBA Program
Course selection

MBA courses

Below are examples of the electives offered to the incoming MBA exchange students. The final list will be confirmed at the application stage.

  • Design Thinking, 2 ECTS
  • Quantitative Methods in Marketing, 2 ECTS
  • Entrepreneurial Strategy, 2 ECTS
  • The Start Up Challenge, 4 ECTS
  • Global Strategies of Industrial Champions, 2 ECTS
  • Leading Diversity, 2 ECTS
  • Geopolitics, 2 ECTS
  • Power, Politcs and Persuasion in Organizations, 2 ECTS
  • Doing Business Sustainably, 2 ECTS
  • German Language Course

 

⇒ Grading

MBA courses

Below are examples of the electives offered to the incoming MBA exchange students. The final list will be confirmed at the application stage.

  • Design Thinking, 2 ECTS
  • Quantitative Methods in Marketing, 2 ECTS
  • Entrepreneurial Strategy, 2 ECTS
  • The Start Up Challenge, 4 ECTS
  • Global Strategies of Industrial Champions, 2 ECTS
  • Leading Diversity, 2 ECTS
  • Geopolitics, 2 ECTS
  • Power, Politcs and Persuasion in Organizations, 2 ECTS
  • Doing Business Sustainably, 2 ECTS
  • German Language Course

 

⇒ Grading

Grading

ESMT Grading scheme

 

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Enrollment at ESMT
Enrollment at ESMT

During your first week on ESMT campus, you must obtain your enrollment confirmation from the Student Services Office (Room 2.32 A), or a digital version of it, via email. Here is what we require from you, in advance:

  • A signed and dated study agreement: You will receive your ESMT study agreement digitally in the weeks before program start. Please read the document carefully and keep a copy for your records. You can submit your signed and dated agreement via email.
  • Proof of valid health insurance: All students are required to submit a confirmation of their health insurance status issued by a German public health insurance company. 

 

⇒ Health insurance and visa

During your first week on ESMT campus, you must obtain your enrollment confirmation from the Student Services Office (Room 2.32 A), or a digital version of it, via email. Here is what we require from you, in advance:

  • A signed and dated study agreement: You will receive your ESMT study agreement digitally in the weeks before program start. Please read the document carefully and keep a copy for your records. You can submit your signed and dated agreement via email.
  • Proof of valid health insurance: All students are required to submit a confirmation of their health insurance status issued by a German public health insurance company. 

 

⇒ Health insurance and visa

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Health Insurance

Under German law, all students are obliged to have health insurance in order to study at a German university. 

If you are insured in another EU country and you hold the European Health Insurance card (EHIC), this will be considered sufficient (unless you want to take on a working student position or a voluntary internship- in that case, you will need German health insurance).  If you do not hold an EHIC, you can choose to take out German public or German private health insurance.  

German public student health insurance plans are more expensive than private insurance plans, and the sign-up process is more complicated. For this reason, exchange students who plan to stay in Germany for just a few weeks or months are generally better served taking out private student insurance. There are, however, a couple of advantages to having public insurance. Firstly, publicly insured individuals do not need to pay their medical costs up front. Instead, the insurance provider pays these to the healthcare provider directly. The other advantage is that public insurance plans cover pre-existing medical conditions. 

Please refer to the ESMT Student Handbook (pages 17ff) for more details! (see below).

Once you are admitted as an ESMT exchange student, we will also guide you through getting ready for enrollment at ESMT, including health insurance requirements.  

Visa

Generally, all non-EU citizens entering Germany and staying for more than 90 days with the intention to work or study need a visa before entry. Please refer to the pages 4ff of the ESMT Student Handbook (see below).

Exchange students do not necessarily need a student visa, though: 

  • If you are a non-EU citizen but you already hold a valid residence permit for studying in another EU country, you are eligible to enter Germany with it.  
  • If the duration of your stay will not exceed three months, you will not need to apply for a student visa, either. Instead, you may enter with a tourist visa.   

All applicants should consult the website of the local German mission to find out about the visa procedure and required documentation. 

 

Enrollment at ESMT
Orientation week
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Orientation Week
Orientation week

We want to welcome you on campus before your first class starts. Please make your travel arrangements so that you can join the Orientation and Welcome Day(s)!

Dates

  • For Autumn Term 2024: 9-13 September 2024
  • For Spring Term 2025: 06 January 2025

 

Buddies

Don’t worry about being lost on campus! Your Student Buddy will be there for you within the first days and weeks to support you, show you around and give you some useful tips on studying and getting to know Berlin. You will receive more information before your exchange starts!

We want to welcome you on campus before your first class starts. Please make your travel arrangements so that you can join the Orientation and Welcome Day(s)!

Dates

  • For Autumn Term 2024: 9-13 September 2024
  • For Spring Term 2025: 06 January 2025

 

Buddies

Don’t worry about being lost on campus! Your Student Buddy will be there for you within the first days and weeks to support you, show you around and give you some useful tips on studying and getting to know Berlin. You will receive more information before your exchange starts!

Your exchange journey at ESMT

Nomination
x
Nomination
Nomination

To apply to study at ESMT, your host institution must first select and nominate you as an exchange student.

Nomination deadlines

  • For Autumn term 2024: 15 April 2024
  • For Spring term 2025: 01 October 2024

To apply to study at ESMT, your host institution must first select and nominate you as an exchange student.

Nomination deadlines

  • For Autumn term 2024: 15 April 2024
  • For Spring term 2025: 01 October 2024
Application
x
Application
Application

Congratulations on being nominated to ESMT!

You will receive application instructions via the email address provided in the nomination process. You will be asked to submit the following documents:

  • ID/Passport photo page
  • CV
  • Latest available transcript
  • Passport photograph / close-up photograph clearly showing your face
  • Confirmation of English language proficiency

Application deadlines

  • For Autumn term 2024: 12 May 2024
  • For Spring term 2025: 10 October 2024

If you need to apply for a visa, please do so as early as possible since the process can take very long. More information can be found below in the Student Handbook (pages 4ff), please contact us to get more information.

⇒ English language proficiency requirements

Congratulations on being nominated to ESMT!

You will receive application instructions via the email address provided in the nomination process. You will be asked to submit the following documents:

  • ID/Passport photo page
  • CV
  • Latest available transcript
  • Passport photograph / close-up photograph clearly showing your face
  • Confirmation of English language proficiency

Application deadlines

  • For Autumn term 2024: 12 May 2024
  • For Spring term 2025: 10 October 2024

If you need to apply for a visa, please do so as early as possible since the process can take very long. More information can be found below in the Student Handbook (pages 4ff), please contact us to get more information.

⇒ English language proficiency requirements

show more
English language proficiency requirements
  • TOEFL scores (95 minimum), PTE score (64 minimum), IELTS score (7 minimum) or other English proficiency test. 
  • ESMT Berlin accepts MyBest™ scores for the TOEFL iBT® test, in addition to TOEFL iBT scores from a single test date. The ESMT TOEFL institution code is 8707.
  • Students whose native language is English or who have earned a university degree exclusively taught in English, do not need to take an English proficiency test.
Term dates
x
Term Dates
Term dates

Autumn term 2024

  • 9-13 September 2024: Orientation & Welcome Week MSc students
  • 16 September 2024: First MSc course starts
  • 30 September 2024: Orientation & Welcome Day MBA students & first MBA course starts
  • 20 December 2024: Last MSc and MBA courses ends (incl. exam) 
  • Early January 2025: Further Masters courses available

Students coming in the Autumn term who require a high number of ECTS (25+), are likely going to have to take courses in January. 

Spring term 2025

Social Impact Project individual preparation (online: group forming and topic selection) starts from November 2024.

  • 06 January 2025: Orientation & Welcome Day
  • 06 January 2025: First course starts
  • 07 February 2025: Career Fair (no classes)
  • 08 March 2025: International Women's Day - public holiday (no classes)
  • 28 March 2025: End of courses, inc. any exams (subject to change)
     
  • April - May 2025: Social Impact Project delivery (SIP)
  • April - July 2025: Summer Entrepreneurship Program delivery (SEP)

Students who require more than approx. 24 ECTS are expected to take SIP or SEP. 

Autumn term 2024

  • 9-13 September 2024: Orientation & Welcome Week MSc students
  • 16 September 2024: First MSc course starts
  • 30 September 2024: Orientation & Welcome Day MBA students & first MBA course starts
  • 20 December 2024: Last MSc and MBA courses ends (incl. exam) 
  • Early January 2025: Further Masters courses available

Students coming in the Autumn term who require a high number of ECTS (25+), are likely going to have to take courses in January. 

Spring term 2025

Social Impact Project individual preparation (online: group forming and topic selection) starts from November 2024.

  • 06 January 2025: Orientation & Welcome Day
  • 06 January 2025: First course starts
  • 07 February 2025: Career Fair (no classes)
  • 08 March 2025: International Women's Day - public holiday (no classes)
  • 28 March 2025: End of courses, inc. any exams (subject to change)
     
  • April - May 2025: Social Impact Project delivery (SIP)
  • April - July 2025: Summer Entrepreneurship Program delivery (SEP)

Students who require more than approx. 24 ECTS are expected to take SIP or SEP. 

Course selection
x
Master Programs
Course selection

Masters courses

Coming on an exchange to our Master program you can take selected courses from the first and second year of the Masters programs (Master in Global Management, Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Master in Analytics and Artificial Intelligence).

Course selection

Due to potential course cancellations because of under subscription, schedule clashes, and limitations of room sizes because of over subscription, we require that you provide valid alternatives to your course choices. If specific courses are required by the sending institution, you should indicate those during the application process. Accommodations will be made wherever possible.

 

Current information

  1. The preliminary list of courses is available, you can view it in this PDF document. Course selection process will take place after the application deadline of 12 May 2024/10 October 2024. You will be invited to select your courses by submitting a course selection form.
  2. “Your exchange at ESMT” - Online Seminar: We will host an Online Seminar for you to help you prepare for your stay at ESMT. All students will be informed in due time.

 

⇒ Grading

Masters courses

Coming on an exchange to our Master program you can take selected courses from the first and second year of the Masters programs (Master in Global Management, Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Master in Analytics and Artificial Intelligence).

Course selection

Due to potential course cancellations because of under subscription, schedule clashes, and limitations of room sizes because of over subscription, we require that you provide valid alternatives to your course choices. If specific courses are required by the sending institution, you should indicate those during the application process. Accommodations will be made wherever possible.

 

Current information

  1. The preliminary list of courses is available, you can view it in this PDF document. Course selection process will take place after the application deadline of 12 May 2024/10 October 2024. You will be invited to select your courses by submitting a course selection form.
  2. “Your exchange at ESMT” - Online Seminar: We will host an Online Seminar for you to help you prepare for your stay at ESMT. All students will be informed in due time.

 

⇒ Grading

Grading

ESMT Grading scheme

show more
x
MBA Program
Course selection

MBA courses

Below are examples of the electives offered to the incoming MBA exchange students. The final list will be confirmed at the application stage.

  • Design Thinking, 2 ECTS
  • Quantitative Methods in Marketing, 2 ECTS
  • Entrepreneurial Strategy, 2 ECTS
  • The Start Up Challenge, 4 ECTS
  • Global Strategies of Industrial Champions, 2 ECTS
  • Leading Diversity, 2 ECTS
  • Geopolitics, 2 ECTS
  • Power, Politcs and Persuasion in Organizations, 2 ECTS
  • Doing Business Sustainably, 2 ECTS
  • German Language Course

 

⇒ Grading

MBA courses

Below are examples of the electives offered to the incoming MBA exchange students. The final list will be confirmed at the application stage.

  • Design Thinking, 2 ECTS
  • Quantitative Methods in Marketing, 2 ECTS
  • Entrepreneurial Strategy, 2 ECTS
  • The Start Up Challenge, 4 ECTS
  • Global Strategies of Industrial Champions, 2 ECTS
  • Leading Diversity, 2 ECTS
  • Geopolitics, 2 ECTS
  • Power, Politcs and Persuasion in Organizations, 2 ECTS
  • Doing Business Sustainably, 2 ECTS
  • German Language Course

 

⇒ Grading

Grading

ESMT Grading scheme

 

show more
Enrollment at ESMT
x
Enrollment at ESMT
Enrollment at ESMT

During your first week on ESMT campus, you must obtain your enrollment confirmation from the Student Services Office (Room 2.32 A), or a digital version of it, via email. Here is what we require from you, in advance:

  • A signed and dated study agreement: You will receive your ESMT study agreement digitally in the weeks before program start. Please read the document carefully and keep a copy for your records. You can submit your signed and dated agreement via email.
  • Proof of valid health insurance: All students are required to submit a confirmation of their health insurance status issued by a German public health insurance company. 

 

⇒ Health insurance and visa

During your first week on ESMT campus, you must obtain your enrollment confirmation from the Student Services Office (Room 2.32 A), or a digital version of it, via email. Here is what we require from you, in advance:

  • A signed and dated study agreement: You will receive your ESMT study agreement digitally in the weeks before program start. Please read the document carefully and keep a copy for your records. You can submit your signed and dated agreement via email.
  • Proof of valid health insurance: All students are required to submit a confirmation of their health insurance status issued by a German public health insurance company. 

 

⇒ Health insurance and visa

show more
Health Insurance

Under German law, all students are obliged to have health insurance in order to study at a German university. 

If you are insured in another EU country and you hold the European Health Insurance card (EHIC), this will be considered sufficient (unless you want to take on a working student position or a voluntary internship- in that case, you will need German health insurance).  If you do not hold an EHIC, you can choose to take out German public or German private health insurance.  

German public student health insurance plans are more expensive than private insurance plans, and the sign-up process is more complicated. For this reason, exchange students who plan to stay in Germany for just a few weeks or months are generally better served taking out private student insurance. There are, however, a couple of advantages to having public insurance. Firstly, publicly insured individuals do not need to pay their medical costs up front. Instead, the insurance provider pays these to the healthcare provider directly. The other advantage is that public insurance plans cover pre-existing medical conditions. 

Please refer to the ESMT Student Handbook (pages 17ff) for more details! (see below).

Once you are admitted as an ESMT exchange student, we will also guide you through getting ready for enrollment at ESMT, including health insurance requirements.  

Visa

Generally, all non-EU citizens entering Germany and staying for more than 90 days with the intention to work or study need a visa before entry. Please refer to the pages 4ff of the ESMT Student Handbook (see below).

Exchange students do not necessarily need a student visa, though: 

  • If you are a non-EU citizen but you already hold a valid residence permit for studying in another EU country, you are eligible to enter Germany with it.  
  • If the duration of your stay will not exceed three months, you will not need to apply for a student visa, either. Instead, you may enter with a tourist visa.   

All applicants should consult the website of the local German mission to find out about the visa procedure and required documentation. 

 

Orientation week
x
Orientation Week
Orientation week

We want to welcome you on campus before your first class starts. Please make your travel arrangements so that you can join the Orientation and Welcome Day(s)!

Dates

  • For Autumn Term 2024: 9-13 September 2024
  • For Spring Term 2025: 06 January 2025

 

Buddies

Don’t worry about being lost on campus! Your Student Buddy will be there for you within the first days and weeks to support you, show you around and give you some useful tips on studying and getting to know Berlin. You will receive more information before your exchange starts!

We want to welcome you on campus before your first class starts. Please make your travel arrangements so that you can join the Orientation and Welcome Day(s)!

Dates

  • For Autumn Term 2024: 9-13 September 2024
  • For Spring Term 2025: 06 January 2025

 

Buddies

Don’t worry about being lost on campus! Your Student Buddy will be there for you within the first days and weeks to support you, show you around and give you some useful tips on studying and getting to know Berlin. You will receive more information before your exchange starts!

Incoming students voices

Emanuele Rolando

Emanuele Rolando

"The advantage of being a rather small institution is that ESMT pays close attention to each of its new students and ensures that their academic needs are taken into account. 

I found Berlin to be an amazing city to live in as the qualify of life is unmatched. Whatever kind of person you are you will find the suitable space for you in this multifaceted city."

"I really enjoyed the classes at ESMT. All professors are really available and classes are very interactive and less frontal. With ESMT’s modern study rooms you have the possibility to study in a pleasant and quiet environment. 

Furthermore Berlin is an extremely international city, full of beauties to discover."

Margherita Mule

Margherita Mulé

Muhammad Fajri

Muhammad Fajri

"I had a great experience during my exchange at ESMT Berlin. The courses were structured comprehensively, and I learned a lot at ESMT. 

The student buddy program was particularly useful during my first week at ESMT. My buddy Rishab helped me navigate the campus and introduced me to students from other courses. 

Overall, it was a wonderful experience, and I am thrilled to have completed my exchange term at ESMT Berlin."

Contacts

Lotte Meier

Manager, Erasmus and Exchange Students
+49 30 212 31 1495

Anna Frankowska

Head, International Office
+49 30 212 31 1431

Currently on leave

International Office

ESMT Berlin

Erasmus+ code: D BERLIN46

ESMT Berlin

Schlossplatz 1

10178 Berlin

Germany

ESMT Berlin is part of the Erasmus+ Program

Many of our exchange partnerships take place within the Erasmus+ program framework. Click here to access our Erasmus Charter.

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