Economics and Management, M.Sc.
What effects do decisions of the European Central Bank have? What methods can be used to combat unemployment? How should the balance sheets of international corporations be read? These are just some of the issues addressed in Economics and Business Administration. Economics involves supplying people with the goods and services they require in the context of scarce resources; organising labour; planning social security; distributing tax burdens; and managing national economies or international growth processes.
Programme facts
| Degree | Master of Science (M.Sc.) |
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| Duration | 4 semesters, 120 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German, English |
| Required German | C1 |
| Required English | B2 |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Winter semester |
| Application | winter semester until 31.05 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €434.91 per semester |
What the tuition fee consists of
Will I get in
The programme has an admission restriction: the average grade of your certificate, converted to the German scale, decides. The cut-off changes every year — last year's value shows the order of magnitude, not a promise.
How the selection works and how strong the competition is — we go through it against your certificate when we select programmes for you.
Programme selection →About the programme
Economists play a role in addressing current and future challenges facing businesses, public administration and organisations from the perspective of microeconomics and macroeconomics. Due to the wide-ranging interplay of economic processes, consideration must also be taken of environmental, social, psychological, political, legal and technological perspectives. Owing to such variety, economics and business administration opens up exceptionally differentiated and exciting research and employment prospects.
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Students who opt for the areas of Empirical Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Banking & Insurance, Information and Operations Management, International Environment and Development Studies or Strategic Management can take the entire programme in English.
What you study
No later than six weeks before the end of the lecture period of the first semester, students choose two areas from a total of eight: a major area, worth 50 credit points, and a minor area, worth 20 credit points. Up until six weeks before the end of the lecture period of the second semester, students still have the option of swapping their major and minor areas. Students also take an optional area, worth 20 credit points. This involves either taking modules from any of the eight areas or studying abroad, which is recognised for a set amount of credit points (mobility window).
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
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Graduates of the degree programme in Economics and Business Administration are qualified as versatile and self-reliant problem solvers. The programme is the foundation for all kinds of careers in management, whether in industrial or commercial enterprises, with banks or insurance companies, in tax consultancy or auditing. Public administration, associations and the media also provide a wealth of employment opportunities for graduates in Economics and Business Administration.
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Lower Saxony), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €434.91 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | Applicants should have a head for figures, and should be able to analyse and combine information. |
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| Language | German C1, English B2 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | winter semester until 31.05 |
The procedure and the set of documents depend on your certificate. We check the university's requirements against your documents and give you a list: what to submit, how to certify and translate it, where and when to apply.
Check the requirementsHow to get into this programme
- 1Check your certificate and its recognitionDirect admission, a year at a university at home, or Studienkolleg first — this decides the whole plan.
- 2German up to C1 and a certificateDSH or TestDaF has to be passed before you apply.
- 3Documents and translationsCertified translations of the certificate and transcript, an APS if required. 3–4 weeks.
- 4Application until 31.05Send the documents well before the deadline — an incomplete application cannot be completed after it.
- 5Admission, visa, movingPlan 2–3 months for the visa and the blocked account in parallel.
How to apply
You can submit the application yourself or with our help — the university decides on admission in both cases.
Applications go through the university's portal or uni-assist. Typical mistakes:
- ×incorrectly made certified copies and translations
- ×a wrong set of documents
- ×the application submitted the wrong way
- ×errors or gaps in the application form
- ×the application submitted at the wrong time — too early or too late
An incomplete or incorrectly prepared application is excluded from the selection — it can no longer be corrected after the deadline.
StudyInFocus does not represent the university and does not influence the admission decision. We do not sell study places and do not guarantee admission — this is a service for preparing and submitting documents on the applicant's side.
If your level is not enough yet
The two most common stoppers are a language level below the requirement and a certificate without direct admission. Both can be solved, but they take months — plan them now, not after a rejection.
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Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 31.05.2027 (229 days left). Language, translations and the document check take months, not weeks. In 30 minutes we will build a plan backwards from the deadline and tell you honestly whether you can make it.