International Business Administration and Foreign Trade, M.A.
With 56 nationalities and 20% foreign students internationality is lived at the University of Worms. An exciting intercultural environment and interesting contacts are an integral part of everyday academic life. Based on a general and broad-based Bachelor's education, the consecutive Master's program International Business Administration and Foreign Economics envisages specialization in the choice of specialization and supplementary subjects. The IBAMaster pursues an action-oriented profile with the aim of teaching current knowledge on the one hand and on the other hand also to impart the ability to apply this knowledge to known and new problems and to independently gain new knowledge and skills after graduation.
Programme facts
| Degree | Master of Arts (M.A.) |
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| Duration | 3 semesters, 90 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Required English | B2 |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Summer semester, winter semester |
| Application | winter semester until 15.07, summer semester until 15.01 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €130.80 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
The study program International Business Administration and Foreign Trade offers already since 1978 a competent and application-related training in the International Business Administration with a focus on foreign trade. From the first day our lecturers teach from the real world. In addition to basic business knowledge, current trends in business practice are taken up and deepened in the events. Our lecturers maintain intensive contacts to leading companies from various industries. The program pursues the goal of training graduates for responsible, complex and subject-specific tasks in national and international companies in industry, trade and service industries.
What you study
Core elements
The first semester serves to teach core elements of global action. The modules IBA International, IBA Foreign Trade and Leadership Competence offer the opportunity to deepen the knowledge on the basis of the Bachelor degree for an activity in international companies. In the IBA International module, students develop a comprehensive understanding of the interplay between micro and macroeconomic corporate environments and strategic options for action. The IBA Foreign Trade module enables students to make successful strategic and operational decisions in addition to foreign trade. The requirements for the leadership competence of future managers are taken into account by the tripartite module Leadership Competence. It gives students the ability to successfully combine their theoretical management knowledge with actual action.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
Pick programmesCost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Rhineland-Palatinate), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €130.80 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | A bachelor's degree in a related field. |
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| Language | English B2 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | winter semester until 15.07, summer semester until 15.01 |
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.
- 2Documents and translationsCertified translations of the certificate and transcript, an APS if required. 3–4 weeks.
- 3Application until 15.01Send the documents well before the deadline — an incomplete application cannot be completed after it.
- 4Admission, 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.
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Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 15.01.2027 (93 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.