Combine corporate finance expertise with profound management skills by joining HHL’s Master in Management | Finance. We take you beyond standard thinking of short-run financial performance and company value maximization. Instead, we strengthen your abilities to critically reflect and to arrive at well-informed business decisions. Providing our students with competencies of sustainable impact is at HHL‘s heart of mind.
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You cannot grasp it, and yet it is everywhere: the HHL spirit. Our HHL spirit turns your studies into a unique experience.
The small and tight-knit community of students, alumni, professors and staff from around the world creates a community spirit that lives on after graduation.
Our program is unique. On one hand, we will turn you into an expert in Corporate Finance, Asset Pricing and Data Analytics, on the other we build up your management competencies and strategy skills. Combining excellence in finance with entrepreneurial thinking and an open mind for innovation is at the heart of our program. Join us and experience how this setting sets you on track to becoming a business leader of the future.
Our philosophy is to match academic excellence with key insights on practical challenges. There is no better way to gain such insights than by exchanging with experienced guest lecturers from venture capital, private equity, investment banking, financial management consulting or corporate divisions like corporate finance, M&A and business development. Beyond that, you get the opportunity to apply your acquired expertise instantly during our student consulting project and potential internships.
Our renowned career service supports you in discovering and unfolding your individual potential right from the start. We advise you individually on career paths, applications, or interview preparation. Additionally, we bring top recruiters from leading consulting firms to companies in the financial sector to international corporations or startups to the campus to give you a head start in the career you desire. Being Germany’s #1 in starting salaries and constantly ranking among the best ten business schools for career services proves us right.
We live in an increasingly globalized world and we firmly believe that international competencies are essential for future leaders. Therefore we place great emphasis on the development of your intercultural skills. All our classes are taught in English and consist of about 40 % international students from all over the world. You will be working with interesting classmates from various cultural backgrounds. Furthermore, a term abroad at one of our more than 140 partner universities is integrated into the curriculum at no additional cost. You can even complete a double degree*.
*Please note this will extend your studies and incur an additional fee.
At this point we prefer to let our alumni speak. Here is what Irene Klemm, co-founder of Edurino and Ex-BCG consultant, says about the HHL spirit: “The HHL spirit is undoubtedly something that makes HHL very special. It is determined by a strong cohesion, a close community, and often friendships.”
Due to our constant effort to foster our community, we have built a tight-knit network of loyal alumni and passionate supporters all over the world. As a student of HHL, you become part of it and get to interact with successful entrepreneurs, leading international managers and top-class experts.
We are looking forward to your application.
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What we do differently in our Master in Management | Finance is the strong connection between quantitative abilities and strategic application. We do not educate the next generation of analysts for the basements of banks and big corporates. Instead, HHL graduates can critically reflect on the analytic insights they have generated and derive thorough management decisions that also incorporate long-term implications.
HHL’s Master in Management | Finance program offers a very interesting blend of finance, management and entrepreneurship, which has provided me with essential skills to contribute to the derivatives market in my current job. Beyond the classroom, I had the opportunity to apply my knowledge through practical case studies and internships, supported by a strong alumni network and professors who are truly committed to the growth and success of each student.
For me, the most important learning I took away from HHL is the approach to solving complex problems. Early in the program, students are given seemingly intractable tasks that require teamwork, analytical rigor and out-of-the-box thinking. Looking back, I am very happy that we were taught these skills, as I can hardly imagine a better training for starting a career as a recent graduate.
My studies at HHL were characterized by a unique and practical approach to learning that seamlessly integrated theory with real-world applications. This approach provided me with a comprehensive toolkit and fostered a well-rounded skill set. The focus on providing a deep understanding of finance further prepared me for the challenges of my career in strategy consulting. In addition, I am grateful for the valuable professional network I was able to build at HHL, as well as the lasting personal connections I made while studying in Leipzig.
Getting my degree at HHL was one of the best decisions I could have made: it prepared me to thrive in any environment, no matter how complex or challenging, and connected me to incredible recruiters, alumni, and life-long friends. The HHL spirit is unique in that you can be more yourself, which helped me walk my own path after graduation and helped me fulfill my dream of a thriving career in the US.
With its interdisciplinary and practical approach, HHL equipped me with a holistic toolset which helps me to thrive early in my career. Rationalizing situations with quantitative models, analyzing challenges from various perspectives and deriving business critical solutions is only a minor selection of the skills I refined during my time at HHL. Beyond the skill set, I am fascinated about the high-quality profiles in our HHL network and their openness to step into a dialogue.
The master program at HHL prepared me for the job world through its practical approach. Everybody worked on many real-life projects as part of the curriculum. This practical orientation combined with various networking events, continuous career coaching and numerous internship possibilities gave me a chance to visualize what I could and wanted to do after my studies.
Coming to HHL with a background in economics, my M.Sc. studies with a major in finance allowed me to discover my enthusiasm and to deepen my understanding for the field! Having enjoyed these hands-on courses, I was ready to accept a role in the investment banking industry . While working with HSBC and UBS at first, I eventually moved to private equity at Ardian.
My journey through the HHL’s Master’s in Management | Finance program was nothing short of transformative. I can now confidently navigate through complex, time-sensitive projects in my current role in strategy consulting in the M&A and private equity practice, thanks to the financial foundations, industry-required skills, and necessary exposure that I gained at HHL. Beyond that, the invaluable international network established through engaging group case studies, coursework, and career events, continues to be a pillar of strength in my career.
With a background in media management and advertising, shifting to a major in Finance really pushed my understanding of how markets work and opened up a whole new perspective on business to me. Not only this, but the well-chosen balance between theoretical and applied finance prepared me for my start at Bain and continues to enhance my work as a consultant.
The curriculum at HHL seamlessly integrates theoretical concepts with practical applications, featuring insightful sessions from industry professionals who share their expertise. Beyond imparting real-world insights, the program significantly enhanced my networking and professional connections. The indefatigable spirit of my classmates has left an indelible mark on me, and I carry the valuable lessons learned and the enduring connections established during the program with me for a lifetime.
The finance courses at HHL gave me the profound knowledge and skills needed to join Goldman Sachsafter graduation. Particularly, the hands-on modeling sessions and case studies proved to be useful for my job in investment banking. In the meantime, I have joined family-investor Bregal and the skills acquired at HHL have a lasting impact on my daily work.
Every day I have to make lots of minor and major decisions about my company’s future and value to be created HHL’s finance courses provided me with the right perspective and mind-set when it comes to make long-term decisions under uncertainty and when to decide between different investment alternatives. Great finance is not only about correct calculations, it’s a way of thinking. Indeed, that’s what I learned at HHL
The hands-on finance casework was an excellent preparation for my career in management consulting by enhancing my problem-solving skills and finance expertise. Working in the financial industry competence center at Horváth & Partners, I particularly benefit from finance-related hard skills learned at HHL , such as financial analysis and modelling.
Having negotiated multiple early stage equity rounds of a young company after my Bachelors degree, I quickly noticed that an earlier exposure to HHL’s finance courses would have increased deal quality massively. The acquired knowledge paired with the opportunity to engage with complex stochastic modelling within my master thesis and numerous connections with renowned companies was the ideal enabler for my career. I started off by joining the Boston Consulting Group and finally got back to managing a new venture.
Our Master in Management | Finance, with a strong focus on corporate finance, prepares you to become an expert in the field by combining academic excellence with key insights on practical challenges. Focusing on corporate finance, asset pricing and financial data analytics enable you to master future challenges in financial decision-making. You will understand, design and prepare solutions for linking financial markets with the needs of corporations.
The Master in Management | Finance program consists of several elements designed to educate and train skilled, innovative, responsible, and successful future leaders:
The “Welcome Weeks” offer a dive into the #hhlspirit. Our students get to know classmates from all of our programs and from all corners of the world, both virtually and on-site. This community event lays the foundation for a powerful network that will support them not only through their studies but far beyond.
Our blended learning modules on the basics of studying finance allow you to self-assess your expertise, refresh acquired skills, and fill gaps. All modules are optional and can be taken according to your individual needs.
This is where you start your HHL journey and take a deep breath of our school’s DNA. We do not only onboard your diverse class in what is essential in terms of hard skills but also develop your entrepreneurial spirit as well as your sense for teamwork and community. Moreover, we want to help you in becoming the best version of yourself by learning meaningful selfleadership frameworks and gaining awareness for the cross-functional abilities needed to excel in a modern business world.
Choose at least two out of the three highlighted modules to prepare for your thrilling ride through the world of finance and strategy. Beyond that, you can select two of the other offerings to dive into something new and to complement your existing skillset with new capabilities.
Working on a real-life project, studying abroad or completing internships: The practical experience you gain and the connections you build will serve you far beyond graduation and equip you with an invaluable network.
Whether working with a company on a real-life problem, studying abroad or gaining practical experience through an internship, the connections and relationships students build will benefit them far beyond graduation. A selection of unique opportunities allows you to apply your newly acquired knowledge and skills:
Student Consulting Project
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience what it’s like to be a consultant. Your challenge is to collaborate in a team of four to six students to advise and support a company in solving a real-life problem. Working closely with both company representatives and HHL faculty, you will learn first-hand what it means to initiate real change.
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Practical Deepening
Whether consulting, working at an HHL startup or in a social impact project; with an integrated internship we offer you the opportunity to gain practical insights into new sectors and diverse corporate cultures. This is your chance to gain new perspectives, contacts and experience according to your own unique career goals.
International Experience
Discover new countries, dive into new cultures, and invigorate your intercultural competencies during your term abroad at one of our 140 in Europe, Asia, Oceania or the America.
This international experience is your opportunity for personal development and for establishing a global network that will accompany you through your career. Read about our students’ experiences in
For us, the cooperation with HHL and their young inspiring students from all over the world was a unique experience offering a win-win result for all parties: The company Porsche and the students of HHL. We all shared our stories, practices and skills to reveal fresh ideas for new products, services and consumer experiences.
The Finance Focus curriculum is carefully composed to turn you into an expert in the field by combining academic excellence with key insights into real-world challenges. While immersing yourself in the exciting world of Finance, we will make sure that you never lose the big picture on strategic implications and decision making.
Financial Decision Making
These modules convey important skills on financial markets, building portfolios, weighing risk and return, valuing investments, structuring M&A deals as well as hedging and insuring risk exposures. Beyond providing safe ground regarding the concepts, the courses focus on direct applications to real-life challenges.
The questions that are addressed span from: What are best-practices in financial planning and how to implement them? How do financial markets work and what are the implications for instruments being traded and market participants? How to insure or hedge against risks? How does an M&A process works?
Advanced Financial Challenges
Modules of this block transform students into experts in investing, financing and pricing assets. The modules provide recent academic advancements in the field and latest practical developments from industry. Students obtain the skills to price any claim they may ever face, enabling them to evaluate any investment, rationalize any risk management strategy, optimize capital structures and shape complex financing contracts.
Moreover, we give students the opportunity to place themselves in the ultimate test, a case study seminar with finance executives. In this capstone seminar, students work in groups towards solving a realistic case mentored, challenged and evaluated by a senior of one of our partner companies.
Your master thesis – your way. Contribute to the discipline of corporate finance and beyond with a high-class empirical study, a well developed modelling approach, or a
practice-oriented case study.
The master thesis (15 ECTS) can be prepared twofold, in a classic thesis format or as a research paper. The latter offers the opportunity to get published in an academic or applied finance journal. Just in the last two years, theses of our students have been published in journals like Qualitative Research in Financial Markets (Ranked B), Corporate Finance (Ranked D) or Die Wirtschaftsprüfung (WPg) (Ranked C).
Sustainable investments are booming, reaching over USD 35tn globally in 2020 (according to GSIA Trends Report 2020). Environmental, social and governance criteria are the three areas of focus that have become the determinants for evaluating an investment’s sustainability. Addressing this ground-breaking investing shift in a joint lecture with Prof. Lahmann and the distinguished group of HHL students has been both tremendously exciting and insightful.
Managing venture capital is between art and science. To navigate the huge uncertainty surrounding fast-growing ventures a combination of entrepreneurial instinct and analytical toolset is required. I enjoy being a guest lecturer in Entrepreneurial Finance so much because the course addresses exactly that mix by discussing thorough but pragmatic solutions to financial planning, valuation, or deal structuring in VC-backed ventures.
No company can do business risk-free, therefore at BMW we strive to manage our risk with a blend of expert opinions and quantitative models. Our approach rests upon strong scientific insights from stochastic theory, behavioral finance, and macroeconomics but does not stop there. We turn models to real-life for making better management decisions. That explains why I love so much coming back to HHL’s finance track as a guest lecturer in Risk Management: Because the program follows exactly the same philosophy!
Apply creative methods, understand new business models, and develop a good feeling for the management team – venture is far more than financials – but they are an important basis! HHL students get well-educated on that special mix of quantitative expertise and management skills. Thus, discussions with them and with Dr. Maximilian Schreiter in the course of Entrepreneurial Finance are always refreshing.
“Don’t get greedy” is a very important motto for life anyway. When it comes to financing start-ups, however, it has an additional meaning: you should only raise as much money from investors as you need, not as much as you can get. Together with the students, I draw the fine line between these two states during my business planning session in the Entrepreneurial Finance course. .
HHL‘s award winning Career Service supports you to discover and unfold your individual potential – from the very first moment at HHL. Top recruiters coming to campus offer extraordinary career opportunities to kick-start your career.
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McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Dr. Oetker, Roland Berger or Amazon: Countless renowned companies frequently recruit on our campus. Our Master in Management | Finance program will launch your career towards new horizons: job offers start pouring in even before graduation! With an average starting salary of EUR 85,000, your investment in our Master in Management | Finance will definitely pay off!
In a recent Financial Times Master in Management Ranking, our Career Development Team was ranked 5th worldwide! This is no coincidence, as our experienced psychologists and career experts have long perfected the mix of 1-to-1 coaching, personality tests, workshops and other tools. They help you discover what unique skills and strengths set you apart. Together, you will tailor a personal career plan to significantly increase your prospects and reach your career goals successfully and rapidly.
We will be at your side throughout your job search. Our Career Development Team will:
With passion, commitment, and our famous personal touch, we pave the way for your success and help you land that dream job!
To give our students an insight into the different career fields in the finance industry, we organize regular career events called “FinNights”. During these events, which take place 3 times a year on the HHL campus, 5 companies present themselves as potential employers with a short pitch. In an informal get-together that follows, students have the opportunity to talk one-on-one with company representatives and make valuable contacts. The companies at previous events were:
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HHL Finance Case Challenge, Leipzig Edition, November 2023
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HHL Finance Case Challenge, Berlin Edition, May 2024
HHL is a small and tight-knit community of students, alumni, staff and professors from around the world. At HHL you can always approach our highly engaged faculty and staff members. We are happy to lend an ear and support you in any way we can. After all, your success is our success. We actively live up to it and make sure that our students and alumni do too!
Graduating from HHL not only gives you a degree from one of Germany’s best business schools, but it also means lifelong access to a first-class network of successful entrepreneurs, leading international managers, key players in the startup scene and top-class experts. Friendships and contacts established at HHL will long outlast your studies. HHL alumni are active in over 70 countries, they are well connected, and they support each other and future graduates in a multitude of ways. And there’s more! Many of our over 4,000 alumni frequently return to campus to support the new HHL generation with their know-how and experience and often even recruit students from their alma mater.
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Leipzig is open, international and vibrant. Located at the crossroads of historic European trade routes, Leipzig prides itself on its 1,000-year tradition of commercial vitality and its reputation as a meeting place for science and the arts. Beyond its modern infrastructure, what makes Germany’s fastest-growing city so popular and dynamic is its rapidly expanding economy, housing world-famous brands such as Porsche, BMW, DHL and Amazon. HHL, the first “Handelshochschule” in German-speaking Europe, was established back in 1898 and therefore laid the foundation for Leipzig’s profound management education early on. Parks, cafés, bars, clubs and lakes invite you to enjoy a welcome break from your studies. Plus, Berlin and all that it has to offer is just one hour away. And the best of it all? Living expenses in Leipzig are affordable for students!
The HHL campus is centrally located and, at the same time, surrounded by idyllic parks and rivers. You will experience an inspiring multicultural atmosphere and real campus flair. You also get to take advantage of the adjacent sports department of the University of Leipzig: As an HHL student, you are eligible to use all of their sports facilities and to sign up for sports courses offered by the Leipzig University. And to accommodate a flexible study schedule, we grant our students access to HHL’s premises 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can use the library, the study areas and meeting rooms, the lounge and the Student Club any time you want! Intrigued? Please contact us – we would be delighted to show you around our campus in person! We look forward to meeting you!
In contrast to many other student cities in Germany, Leipzig offers a very high quality of life for affordable prices. The approximate living costs per month including accommodation in Leipzig are around EUR 800-1000.
Find out everything you need to know before and after arriving in Germany, from visa requirements, health insurance, and housing to residence permits.
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Our student community is a carefully selected collegial network of motivated peers who will help you reach your full potential. For this reason, handpicking our students is very important to us. We not only take hard facts into consideration, such as bachelor grades or GMAT/ HHL Entry Test but also your personality, your motivation and your ambition.
Are you unsure if your profile fits with our admission criteria? Please contact us and we will help you to find out with our free pre-application service.
We look forward to receiving your application.
The investment in a Master in Management degree at HHL is worth it. With a starting salary of about EUR 81,600 and a salary of about EUR 126,500 three years after graduation, HHL graduates are among the best paid Master’s graduates worldwide!*
*Source: Financial Times Masters in Management Ranking 2024
The tuition fees for the complete program amount to EUR 37,500. We offer a tuition fee reduction if you submit your complete application by the following Early Bird deadlines*:
This covers all tuition and examination costs and includes the tuition fees for the term abroad at one of our partner universities. And, of course, the fees do not have to be paid in one lump sum. You will pay your tuition fees in four instalments – spread out over two years. For further information, see our payment terms. One more important note: Your tuition fees are tax-deductible as an anticipated income-related expense. Check out our brochure (in German) on this for tips. Please contact your tax consultant for more information.
*In order to receive the early bird discount, you must have submitted your application by the above deadlines, as well as submit all missing documents and tests (including GMAT/GRE or HHL Entry Test) and successfully pass the HHL admissions interview until January 31 (Early Bird 1), March 31 (Early Bird 2) or June 30 (Early Bird 3).
Additionally, we support you in financing your Master studies. Aside from our range of financing options, we award scholarships to outstanding and particularly driven applicants.
How can you secure a scholarship? Convince us of your excellent record and your exceptional personality. Contact us to learn more, we will be happy to advise you!
After having been admitted to HHL, you are required to pay a down payment of EUR 3,000. The remaining fees will be paid as follows: The first and second installments are payable on October 1 and March 1 of the first study year. The third and fourth installments are payable on September 1 and March 1 of the second study year.
Are you curious about experiencing HHL for yourself? You are welcome to visit us on campus. Do not miss the opportunity to talk to our students or experience our professors in a lecture. Please feel free to contact us at any time, we look forward to hearing from you!