Exchange at ESMT

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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. 

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. 

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

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

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. 

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.  

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.