Hello everyone, i'm an international student in my second year of Bachelor studies in Italy and i'm thinking about a management master.

Among the various German schools i came across the Frankfurt School of Finance, there are many reviews here about it's Master in Finance but what about the master in management?

According to FINANCIAL TIMES it's 28 in the world with a great salary after 3 years so it seems interesting and Frankfurt is the center of German finance but on the other hand the tuition fees are very high, even higher than WHU so i am not really sure now.

Are there good possibilities to get employed and get internships even for non German students?
Which companies recruit there usually?

Kind Regards

Working in Germany without speaking German at least on B2 level is almost impossible. Only a select few startups or software firms employ non-german speaking people, a few corporates have selected devisions which work in English (eon inhouse consulting for example), but overall i predict you to have a rather difficult time finding a job and progressing in it without being able to work in and speak German.

That being said, FSoFM would then be in your case "just any other university abroad", and is standing in direct competition to Programms such as MiM at LSE, LBS, HEC, SSE, Warwick, HSG (SIM), ESEADE, Essec, RSM and every CEMS program... In my view, the FSoFM isn't even a particularly good university in Germany for studying management (Mannheim, LMU Munich or TUM Munich are all better regarded and free of tuition fees). The only thing worthwhile doing there is finance and banking stuff to break into Frankfurt Investment Banking. The aforementioned institutions blow ALL German Unis out of the water in terms of studying management (sorry fellow Germans, we have other strengths such as Law, engineering or medicine). Take your 30k and try to get a place at one of the places I listed above.

If you're set on learning German and working here, go to one of the mentioned German unis. Even WHU would suit you better. Only go to Frankfurt for Banking.

I would recommend you to choose one of the state universities in Germany. Other than in the most countries, state universities are better than private universities. I did my bachelor at a private university because my A-Level grade wasn’t good enough for one of the good state universities. Don’t get me wrong, I had a great time but it didn’t prepare me for my masters at Goethe University (also in Frankfurt) at all. The technical skills the guys with a bachelors from Goethe are on a totally different level. But those guys couldn’t present their shit at all. This was my big advantage because in the masters program you need to present a lot. I would recommend you the international management track because it’s completely in english and you can get an additional major in finance, managerial economics... The mix of lecturers is also great. You can attend courses by international famous researchers as e.g. Schweizer (one of the Most famous M&A Post merger authors), Skiera (#1 ranked researcher in all of Germany) but you also get a lot of practitioners (former and current partners, vps, directors of McKinsey, GS and listed companies). Other than expected are the class sizes very good. Smallest course + 4 people , biggest course = 50-60. (But I heard also about bigger courses which got recorded).

To be honest there are also negative aspects. You need very good grades to get in, you should have very good technical skills, the grades you know from private institutions need much more effort and are less likely to get. In my bachelors I got 1.2 in my masters I got 1.9. This was very disappointing because i leaned more than twice the amount I did for my bachelors. Whereas you have to be active to participate on networking events, you are getting them at private schools more often.

The job offers I got were great and I don’t know anyone who didn’t signed before graduation. But those facts depends also on your internships.

I hope I could help you.

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WiWi Gast schrieb am 04.05.2019:

I would recommend you to choose one of the state universities in Germany. Other than in the most countries, state universities are better than private universities. I did my bachelor at a private university because my A-Level grade wasn’t good enough for one of the good state universities. Don’t get me wrong, I had a great time but it didn’t prepare me for my masters at Goethe University (also in Frankfurt) at all. The technical skills the guys with a bachelors from Goethe are on a totally different level. But those guys couldn’t present their shit at all. This was my big advantage because in the masters program you need to present a lot. I would recommend you the international management track because it’s completely in english and you can get an additional major in finance, managerial economics... The mix of lecturers is also great. You can attend courses by international famous researchers as e.g. Schweizer (one of the Most famous M&A Post merger authors), Skiera (#1 ranked researcher in all of Germany) but you also get a lot of practitioners (former and current partners, vps, directors of McKinsey, GS and listed companies). Other than expected are the class sizes very good. Smallest course + 4 people , biggest course = 50-60. (But I heard also about bigger courses which got recorded).

To be honest there are also negative aspects. You need very good grades to get in, you should have very good technical skills, the grades you know from private institutions need much more effort and are less likely to get. In my bachelors I got 1.2 in my masters I got 1.9. This was very disappointing because i leaned more than twice the amount I did for my bachelors. Whereas you have to be active to participate on networking events, you are getting them at private schools more often.

The job offers I got were great and I don’t know anyone who didn’t signed before graduation. But those facts depends also on your internships.

I hope I could help you.

Hey, ich würde mich noch über ein wenig Input zum Management Master an der FS freuen. Werde im nächsten Jahr mein Bachelor abschließen (FH-Banking&Finance-1,8 Schnitt) und habe vorher eine Ausbildung gemacht zum Bankkaufmann. Werde im Banking bleiben, möchte allerdings eher in die Richtung Projektmanagement u. Innovationen schauen. Kann mir jemand mehr zu den Aufnahmevoraussetzungen insbesondere Mindestergebnis TOEFL u GMAT erzählen? Gibt es vielleicht Studierende aus dem Studiengang, die ihre Erfahrungen teilen könnten? Vielen Dank im Voraus!