International Business and Economics, M.A.
This broad-based degree programme offers you a wide selection of business administration and economics lectures. This allows you to expand your knowledge base as well as a to approach topics in depth, based on your practical experience theoretical knowledge. The team of professors that assists you has a lot of practical experience from various industries. You can benefit from it in lectures, formal discussions and personal conversations.
Programme facts
| Degree | Master of Arts (M.A.) |
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| Duration | 4 semesters, 120 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Required English | B2 |
| Study mode | Full-Time, Double Degree |
| Start | Summer semester, winter semester |
| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 15.06, summer semester until 15.12 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €133.48 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 →What you study
In international business, it is no longer important to distinguish between business administration and economics when faced with specific decisions: government policies affect economic decisions; corporate behavior in turn influences international politics. Thus, from our point of view, it is important that an international master’s degree directs its attention to both the whole economic realm as well as to specific topics often dealt with on the business administration level. The view and the insights we like to develop and share with you are based on an understanding gained and derived from applied research. The Master of Arts in International Business and Economics is a four-semester program lasting 24 months.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
Pick programmesCareer
Alumni of international business master‘s programmes are in greater demand than ever on the job market. With a Master‘s degree, you have the best chances on the job market or you can realise a career jump. Or, like some of our alumni, you can continue on the academic path with a PhD and then either go into the private sector or continue working in research.
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Thuringia), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €133.48 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | A person with an overall grade of “good” or better who has passed a diploma or bachelor’s examination in the degree programs Economics, Business Administration, Economics, International Business and Economics, Business Psychology, Business Information Systems, Multimedia Marketing, IT Service Management, Industrial Engineering or Business Law at the Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences or one as equivalent recognized access authorization. |
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| Language | English B2 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 15.06, summer semester until 15.12 |
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 directly to the university until 15.12Send 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.
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.
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Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 15.12.2026 (62 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.