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Master in Global Management

Your learning and development journey

The Master in Global Management program begins in September each year, and lasts for 24 months. The program is designed to give you a business education specializing in global management, with a curriculum that gives graduates the knowledge and skills needed to move into general management and strategy consulting.

The structure in two parts includes: 

  • Foundation courses covering the most important areas of management theory and practice, with a focus on their importance for the globalized world of the 21st century, e.g. strategy, economics, finance, operations, organizational behaviour, leadership and sustainability, politics
  • Advanced electives delving deeper into industries and applications e.g. Digital Business Transformation, Negotiation, Data Analytics, Innovation

Program timeline

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Term 1
September 2023 - December 2023

Core courses, including

  • The State of the World
  • Statistics
  • Financial Management & Corporate Finance
  • Competitive Strategy
  • Business Economics
  • Judgment Decision-making
  • Financial Accounting

Skills seminar 

  • Business English
  • Business Presentation 
  • Public Speaking
  • Time Management

Language choice 

Core courses, including

  • The State of the World
  • Statistics
  • Financial Management & Corporate Finance
  • Competitive Strategy
  • Business Economics
  • Judgment Decision-making
  • Financial Accounting

Skills seminar 

  • Business English
  • Business Presentation 
  • Public Speaking
  • Time Management

Language choice 

September 2023
December 2023
January 2024
March 2024
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Term 2
January 2024 - March 2024

Core courses, including

  • Business Leadership in Society 
  • Global Corporate Strategy
  • Managing Organizations in a Global Context
  • The Global Economy
  • Operations & Global Supply Chain Management 
  • Marketing Management
  • Entrepreneurial Finance & FinTech

Skills seminars 

  • Cross Cultural Management  
  • Building Professional Networks 
  • Conflict in Teams

Language choice 

Core courses, including

  • Business Leadership in Society 
  • Global Corporate Strategy
  • Managing Organizations in a Global Context
  • The Global Economy
  • Operations & Global Supply Chain Management 
  • Marketing Management
  • Entrepreneurial Finance & FinTech

Skills seminars 

  • Cross Cultural Management  
  • Building Professional Networks 
  • Conflict in Teams

Language choice 

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Internship
April 2024 - September 2024

In coordination with ESMT, you will complete an internship of up to six months with a company and industry that meets your career goals. German students are encouraged to complete their internship abroad.

ESMT currently works with a growing number of companies to offer internships.

Please note that while ESMT has agreements with internship providers to offer internships, participants are still required to apply and pass the target company’s selection procedures. Participants may also source their own internship opportunities.

In coordination with ESMT, you will complete an internship of up to six months with a company and industry that meets your career goals. German students are encouraged to complete their internship abroad.

ESMT currently works with a growing number of companies to offer internships.

Please note that while ESMT has agreements with internship providers to offer internships, participants are still required to apply and pass the target company’s selection procedures. Participants may also source their own internship opportunities.

This year, students gained internship positions at (examples):

  • Boeing working in Market Research & Strategy Support
  • Accenture working as a Strategy Consulting Intern
  • BMW working as a Sustainability Strategy Intern
  • Daimler working as a Risk Management Intern
  • United Nations as an Intern in Information and Communication Technology Section
  • Deutsche Bahn in Strategic Organizational Development
  • KPMG working in Deal Advisory
  • Helix Cognitive Computing GmbH as a Blockchain Research & Cryptoeconomics Trainee
  • Rocket Internet SE working as an International Finance Intern
  • Google working as a Marketing Intern
  • Bayer Healthcare working in Digital Health and Innovation
  • Zalando working on the Business Development team

Besides Germany, students are gaining international experience by interning in Japan, Turkey, Switzerland, France, South Korea and Kenya.

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April 2024
September 2024
October 2024
December 2024
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Term 3
October 2024 - December 2024

Electives, including

  • Corporate Innovation
  • Data Science for Analytics 
  • Advanced Investment Strategies
  • MARGA Strategy Simulation
  • Advanced Investment Strategies
  • Alternative Investments
  • Leading & Managing People

Skills seminar

Language choice

Electives, including

  • Corporate Innovation
  • Data Science for Analytics 
  • Advanced Investment Strategies
  • MARGA Strategy Simulation
  • Advanced Investment Strategies
  • Alternative Investments
  • Leading & Managing People

Skills seminar

Language choice

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Language training
October 2024 - December 2024

Foreign language training is fully integrated into the curriculum of the Master in Global Management program and has a value of 8 ECTS. All students have an opportunity to take a course in a foreign language to develop intercultural communication skills and expand opportunities in various job markets. ESMT collaborates with the GLS language school that has been offering language courses in Berlin since 1983 and is, among other things, certified by DEKRA as a training provider for AZAV courses as well as an official examination center for all Cambridge English examinations of the University of Cambridge in Berlin and Brandenburg.

Foreign language training is fully integrated into the curriculum of the Master in Global Management program and has a value of 8 ECTS. All students have an opportunity to take a course in a foreign language to develop intercultural communication skills and expand opportunities in various job markets. ESMT collaborates with the GLS language school that has been offering language courses in Berlin since 1983 and is, among other things, certified by DEKRA as a training provider for AZAV courses as well as an official examination center for all Cambridge English examinations of the University of Cambridge in Berlin and Brandenburg.

During the two-year period of study, there is an opportunity to choose one of these four languages: German, Spanish, French, and Chinese. The language groups consist of a maximum of 12 participants and a minimum of 4 participants, for a Chinese course a minimum of 2 participants. Classes take place at the GLS campus in Kastanienstraße 82 and run once a week from October to December and January to March during the Master’s program.

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Term 4
January 2025 - May 2025

Electives continued 

  • International Finance & Risk Management
  • Investments: PT & AP (PMP)
  • Risk Modelling
  • Negotiation 
  • Valuation
  • Sustainability

The Social Impact Project

Skills seminar

Language choice 

Electives continued 

  • International Finance & Risk Management
  • Investments: PT & AP (PMP)
  • Risk Modelling
  • Negotiation 
  • Valuation
  • Sustainability

The Social Impact Project

Skills seminar

Language choice 

January 2025
May 2025
May 2025
August 2025
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Master Thesis
May 2025 - August 2025

While working on your Master thesis, you may seek the opportunity of a second internship and carry out your research with support from practitioners. Alternatively, particularly those who intend to pursue an academic career, you may opt for working on a thesis topic in close coordination with a professor’s own research agenda.

While working on your Master thesis, you may seek the opportunity of a second internship and carry out your research with support from practitioners. Alternatively, particularly those who intend to pursue an academic career, you may opt for working on a thesis topic in close coordination with a professor’s own research agenda.

Program timeline

September 2023
December 2023
x
Term 1
September 2023 - December 2023

Core courses, including

  • The State of the World
  • Statistics
  • Financial Management & Corporate Finance
  • Competitive Strategy
  • Business Economics
  • Judgment Decision-making
  • Financial Accounting

Skills seminar 

  • Business English
  • Business Presentation 
  • Public Speaking
  • Time Management

Language choice 

Core courses, including

  • The State of the World
  • Statistics
  • Financial Management & Corporate Finance
  • Competitive Strategy
  • Business Economics
  • Judgment Decision-making
  • Financial Accounting

Skills seminar 

  • Business English
  • Business Presentation 
  • Public Speaking
  • Time Management

Language choice 

January 2024
March 2024
x
Term 2
January 2024 - March 2024

Core courses, including

  • Business Leadership in Society 
  • Global Corporate Strategy
  • Managing Organizations in a Global Context
  • The Global Economy
  • Operations & Global Supply Chain Management 
  • Marketing Management
  • Entrepreneurial Finance & FinTech

Skills seminars 

  • Cross Cultural Management  
  • Building Professional Networks 
  • Conflict in Teams

Language choice 

Core courses, including

  • Business Leadership in Society 
  • Global Corporate Strategy
  • Managing Organizations in a Global Context
  • The Global Economy
  • Operations & Global Supply Chain Management 
  • Marketing Management
  • Entrepreneurial Finance & FinTech

Skills seminars 

  • Cross Cultural Management  
  • Building Professional Networks 
  • Conflict in Teams

Language choice 

April 2024
September 2024
x
Internship
April 2024 - September 2024

In coordination with ESMT, you will complete an internship of up to six months with a company and industry that meets your career goals. German students are encouraged to complete their internship abroad.

ESMT currently works with a growing number of companies to offer internships.

Please note that while ESMT has agreements with internship providers to offer internships, participants are still required to apply and pass the target company’s selection procedures. Participants may also source their own internship opportunities.

In coordination with ESMT, you will complete an internship of up to six months with a company and industry that meets your career goals. German students are encouraged to complete their internship abroad.

ESMT currently works with a growing number of companies to offer internships.

Please note that while ESMT has agreements with internship providers to offer internships, participants are still required to apply and pass the target company’s selection procedures. Participants may also source their own internship opportunities.

This year, students gained internship positions at (examples):

  • Boeing working in Market Research & Strategy Support
  • Accenture working as a Strategy Consulting Intern
  • BMW working as a Sustainability Strategy Intern
  • Daimler working as a Risk Management Intern
  • United Nations as an Intern in Information and Communication Technology Section
  • Deutsche Bahn in Strategic Organizational Development
  • KPMG working in Deal Advisory
  • Helix Cognitive Computing GmbH as a Blockchain Research & Cryptoeconomics Trainee
  • Rocket Internet SE working as an International Finance Intern
  • Google working as a Marketing Intern
  • Bayer Healthcare working in Digital Health and Innovation
  • Zalando working on the Business Development team

Besides Germany, students are gaining international experience by interning in Japan, Turkey, Switzerland, France, South Korea and Kenya.

show more
October 2024
December 2024
x
Term 3
October 2024 - December 2024

Electives, including

  • Corporate Innovation
  • Data Science for Analytics 
  • Advanced Investment Strategies
  • MARGA Strategy Simulation
  • Advanced Investment Strategies
  • Alternative Investments
  • Leading & Managing People

Skills seminar

Language choice

Electives, including

  • Corporate Innovation
  • Data Science for Analytics 
  • Advanced Investment Strategies
  • MARGA Strategy Simulation
  • Advanced Investment Strategies
  • Alternative Investments
  • Leading & Managing People

Skills seminar

Language choice

x
Language training
October 2024 - December 2024

Foreign language training is fully integrated into the curriculum of the Master in Global Management program and has a value of 8 ECTS. All students have an opportunity to take a course in a foreign language to develop intercultural communication skills and expand opportunities in various job markets. ESMT collaborates with the GLS language school that has been offering language courses in Berlin since 1983 and is, among other things, certified by DEKRA as a training provider for AZAV courses as well as an official examination center for all Cambridge English examinations of the University of Cambridge in Berlin and Brandenburg.

Foreign language training is fully integrated into the curriculum of the Master in Global Management program and has a value of 8 ECTS. All students have an opportunity to take a course in a foreign language to develop intercultural communication skills and expand opportunities in various job markets. ESMT collaborates with the GLS language school that has been offering language courses in Berlin since 1983 and is, among other things, certified by DEKRA as a training provider for AZAV courses as well as an official examination center for all Cambridge English examinations of the University of Cambridge in Berlin and Brandenburg.

During the two-year period of study, there is an opportunity to choose one of these four languages: German, Spanish, French, and Chinese. The language groups consist of a maximum of 12 participants and a minimum of 4 participants, for a Chinese course a minimum of 2 participants. Classes take place at the GLS campus in Kastanienstraße 82 and run once a week from October to December and January to March during the Master’s program.

show more
January 2025
May 2025
x
Term 4
January 2025 - May 2025

Electives continued 

  • International Finance & Risk Management
  • Investments: PT & AP (PMP)
  • Risk Modelling
  • Negotiation 
  • Valuation
  • Sustainability

The Social Impact Project

Skills seminar

Language choice 

Electives continued 

  • International Finance & Risk Management
  • Investments: PT & AP (PMP)
  • Risk Modelling
  • Negotiation 
  • Valuation
  • Sustainability

The Social Impact Project

Skills seminar

Language choice 

May 2025
August 2025
x
Master Thesis
May 2025 - August 2025

While working on your Master thesis, you may seek the opportunity of a second internship and carry out your research with support from practitioners. Alternatively, particularly those who intend to pursue an academic career, you may opt for working on a thesis topic in close coordination with a professor’s own research agenda.

While working on your Master thesis, you may seek the opportunity of a second internship and carry out your research with support from practitioners. Alternatively, particularly those who intend to pursue an academic career, you may opt for working on a thesis topic in close coordination with a professor’s own research agenda.

Additional options include:

Global immersion

  • Spend up to six months of internship time spent at a company or organization operating on a global scale at first job level providing you with invaluable practical experience to seamlessly integrate at your future employer
  • Take an academic term spent at a top-ranked ESMT partner school in Europe or beyond, fully integrated into the course schedule of year 2 of studies to extend your academic, cultural and communicational skills set
  • Participate in foreign language courses in German, French, Spanish and Chinese widening your cultural horizon and preparing you for the international job market

Finance options: PMP and Certificate

  • Join our partners from an international investment fund on a 2-year journey parallel to your studies
  • Learn how to analyse and make investment decisions in a real-life setting
  • Round off your profile by acquiring the "Finance Certificate" taking courses such as "Portfolio Management & Asset Pricing" and "Advanced Investment Strategies"

Learn more about the Portfolio Management Program here. 

Mim students

Collaborative learning

Modern business is global

ESMT students thrive in a global environment

The value a diverse international cohort brings to your personal development is that it prepares you for any challenge and opportunity the modern world holds in stock for you. With over 30 nationalities represented in the classroom you benefit from fresh perspectives, unique experiences, and a broad set of skills. ESMT Berlin's unique approach to collaborative learning means that working and thriving in diverse and international teams comes as second nature.

ESMT's international faculty combine the very best business teachers and researchers from around the world, brought together in Berlin to share their experience in business practice and thought leadership with a passion that puts the learning experience before everything else.

Situated in state-of-the-art facilities and supported by a world-class community of corporate partners, ESMT Berlin has laid the foundations for innovative research and excellence in the classroom.

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Admissions

 

Find out more about the timeline and what you need to apply for our next incoming class.

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Rankings

 

The ESMT Master in Global Management is #1 in Germany and #10 in the world in the Financial Times Global Masters in Management ranking.

The program moved up two places to join the global top 10 and is ranked #3 for international mobility.

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