Supply Chain Management, M.A.
The role of supply chain management and logistics in ensuring the success of companies is gaining ever greater importance. Following the advancing trends in globalisation as well as persistent technological advancements, supply chain managers find themselves faced with new challenges. This study programme prepares you ideally for these challenges through its practice-based imparting of subject matter, concepts and methods relating to SCM.
Programme facts
| Degree | Master of Arts (M.A.) |
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| Duration | 3 semesters, 90 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German, English |
| Required German | C1 |
| Required English | B2 |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Winter semester |
| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 15.07 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €290.29 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 programme gives you the best opportunity to learn not only further technical skills but also methodology expertise and social skills needed as a supply chain manager, thanks to the following: small groups, thereby enabling interactive classes; the latest teaching and learning concepts; maximum incorporation of case studies and field trips into the courses.
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As a graduate, you will be able to apply your knowledge to solving practical problems within companies. This makes you ideally suited for a management role in SCM and logistics.
What you study
The study programme contains six core subject-matter areas. The first core area is dedicated to conveying cross-company business management skills, therefore given the generic term “Supply chain management”.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
Pick programmesCareer
The study programme’s very first cohort were admitted in October 2009. Since these initial students graduated, we have been delighted and proud to observe the excellent career opportunities afforded to our graduates. Our early alumni start their careers in large companies as well as in medium-sized firms, spanning the industrial, trade, logistics services or consulting sectors. Many of them have acquired management positions within just a few years.
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Below are examples of actual positions held by our graduates:
- Managing Director (industry)
- Global Logistics Specialist (industry)
- SCM Coordinator (industry)
- Departmental/divisional head - refrigerated warehousing (industry)
- Senior Consultant Logistics (consulting)
- Continuous Improvement Manager (logistics services)
Discover the outstanding career opportunities open to our graduates.
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Hesse), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €290.29 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | A bachelor's degree in a related field. |
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| Language | German C1, English B2 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 15.07 |
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 directly to the university until 15.07Send 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.
Questions about this programme
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Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 15.07.2027 (274 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.