| ESB Business School | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1979 |
| Type | public university business school |
| Dean | Prof. Dr. Ottmar Schneck |
| Academic staff | 60[1] |
| Students | >2000[1] |
| Location | Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| Colors | Blue and Yellow |
| Website | esb-business-school.de |
The ESB Business School (formerly ESB Reutlingen) is the business school of Reutlingen University in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was founded in 1979; since 2008 the school is responsible for all business- and management-related degree programmes of the university - in addition to the former ESB programmes it also includes the former School of International Business (SIB) and Production Management (PM). The school offers 20 undergraduate and graduate as well as double degree programs together with a number of European and non-European business schools. The ESB Business School ranks among the top business schools in Germany.[2]
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In addition to its very international educational concept, ESB mandates a work-study phase in the form of semester-long business internships with ESB Cyprus also accerited from ESB London all undergraduate and postgraduate programs (full- time & part time).
Bachelor of Science in International Management and a second bachelor's degree of a partner university within the International Partnership of Business Schools in 4 years.[3]
Students spend two years at ESB and two years at an international partner university, receiving the degrees of both countries (the German degree and its foreign equivalent). Due to the Bologna Process, ESB has offered a bachelor's degree instead of the "Diplom-Betriebswirt" from the class of 2011 onwards.
Partner universities for the dual-degree programs Bachelor of Science in International Management:
The International Business (IB) program, unique in Germany, offers students the possibility of acquiring within only four years the degrees Bachelor of Science (BSc) and Master of Business Administration (MBA). Students complete three academic years at Reutlingen University followed by a fourth academic year at one of ten highly ranked partner universities in America, Asia, Australia or Europe.
The IB programme provides a broad spectrum of expertise and methods in business studies and enables the students while at the ESB as well as at the partner university to select a special area of concentration – e.g. in management, marketing or finance.
The knowledge of business and economics acquired has a strongly international orientation. A high value is set on the training of soft skills, for example in communication and presentation skills, intercultural competence and business ethics.
The international dimension is one of the major factors in the composition of the students: 20 of the total of 40 study places per year are awarded to international applicants.
All courses in the first two semesters – with the exception of the language courses – are held in English. In the following semesters, English and German are the lecturing languages. Business English is a compulsory subject throughout the first 3 years. A second compulsory foreign language is chosen for the first three years of the program: German students can choose between Spanish or French, for international students German is the second foreign language.
The IB programme is an academic programme which prepares students for a management career in an international enterprise. This requires a clear practical orientation. In the 3rd and 6th semesters a 6-month internship in a company has to be completed. These provide students with the opportunity to apply their theoretical business management knowledge and soft skills, and to extend their comprehension of economic cross links and management tasks.
The partner universities for this course of study are:[4]
ESB offers a full-time and part-time MBA program focused on International Marketing. This program is the oldest MBA program in Germany, founded in 1984. It is designed to give people training for international business whose undergraduate studies were not in the field of business (e.g. holders of degrees in engineering, natural science, law, or languages). Approximately 50% of the students come from outside Germany.
The MBA program can be completed full-time in three semesters or part-time over three years. The part-time program is in the form of distance learning with attendance phases. TheESB distance learning materials are also used by a number of other program providers.
A feature of the full-time MBA program is an emphasis course on the Asia-Pacific region. Students who select this specialization attend MBA classes and seminars specific to this region; they also learn speaking Chinese or Japanese and spend a fourth semester in East Asia.
The MBA program has a number of partnerships with universities in other countries for example France,USA,Argentina,Cyprus. The most highly developed partnerships are the joint programmes withESB, Cyprus university and Frederick University Cyprus Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti, Michigan) and the University of La Plata (La Plata, Argentina).
ESB also offers a one-year Master of Science in International Management. One semester of the program is spent at ESB Reutlingen, the other semester at one of four international partner schools:
ESB also offers two highly specialiced Master of Arts with an emphasis on specific International Management topics. Regullary all semesters of the programs are spent at ESB Reutlingen but beside the normal possibility to go abroad for an exchange semester there are opportunities to receive a double degree. (among others from Edinburgh University in the International Accounting & Taxation Master):
Based on the distance learning MBA program, degree courses are being developed in cooperation with industry. These programs provide training for junior managers of the participating companies in international business. ESB provides approximately 80% of the study content, with the remaining 20% provided by business partners on topics specific to their industry. ESB is responsible for examinations and awards the title of MBA. Examples of this form of MBA studies are programs with Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, the medical technology industry in Tuttlingen, and with financial services provider MLP.
The IPBS (International Partnership of Business Schools) is a consortium in which the partner universities offer joint bachelor's and master's programs together with ESB. With over 1600 students, IPBS is the largest integrated cooperation program between universities in Europe.
ESB's group of sponsors, V.I.M.A. (International Management Education Sponsorship Club), has been in existence since 1999. Almost 50 companies are currently members.[6]
The main company fairs on the ESB campus to which V.I.M.A. members can participate are the International Business Fair (IBF) and the Corporate Forum (Firmen Forum, FIFO).
ESB Reutlingen was founded in 1979 through a cooperation agreement with its French partner university in Reims, Middlesex University in London and the then-"Reutlingen European Study Program for Business Studies." Additional partner universities quickly joined and formed a network of business schools known as the International Partnership of Business Schools (IPBS).
New partner universities are only permitted membership of the IPBS with the agreement of all partners in the network. This ensures that high quality requirements of all partners are met. In 1986 ICADE in Madrid was admitted followed in 1996 by Dublin City University and Northeastern University in Boston, and in 1998 by Indiana University Bloomington. In 2004 Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy became members.
In 2002 the previously autonomous Reutlingen MBA study programs, which had been in existence since 1984, joined forces with ESB. Thus ESB became a full-fledged business school with proven undergraduate and new master's programs. Since then, a MSc program and corporate MBAs have been added to complement the original MBA offering.
As of mid-2008, Reutlingen University merged all three of its business schools (European School of Business, School of International Business, and Production Management) into one school under new name of ESB Reutlingen.
The School of International Business or SIB Reutlingen was one of the business schools of Reutlingen University. It offered a number of international undergraduate and graduate programs, some of which were dual degree. It was consistently ranked among the best business schools in Germany, and merged with the European School of Business in 2008 to form the new ESB Reutlingen.