Handelshochschule Leipzig - Overview

Overview

Teaching and research at HHL is conducted almost entirely in English with some country-specific courses which are held in German. The school awards postgraduate degrees such as the Master of Science in General Management (M.Sc.) and the Master in Business Administration (MBA) in a full-time and part-time teaching scheme.

In April 2004, HHL was the first of the private business schools in Germany to be accredited by AACSBInternational (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business). HHL was ranked as Germany's best business school by karriere magazine in May 2006 and often ranks in the German Top 3 in other publications. In 2009, Financial Times ranked the institution #70 in Europe and #3 in Germany in its European Business School rankings. In 2010, HHL's Master in Management program was ranked in Financial Times' Master in Management ranking as #3 in Germany and #38 worldwide.

In all programmes, international study abroad students, who are staying for one to three terms at HHL, are integrated. These students come on exchange from the over 100 partner universities of Handelshochschule Leipzig HHL), including the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and the business school of Tulane University. It has dual degree programmes with Universidad de Talca (Chile), Universidad de Chile (Chile), Tongji University (China), Universidad EAFIT (Colombia), INCAE (Costa Rica), Universidad del Pacifico (Ecuador), ESC Montpellier; ESC Toulouse; ISC Paris; ESCI Fontainebleau (France), MDI (India), KDI School (South Korea), Norwegian School of Management (Norway), ESAN (Peru), EADA Business School (Spain), Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand), and Florida International University (USA).

The school has an executive education centre, founded in co-operation with INSEAD. Initially named the INSEAD Zentrum Leipzig (IZL) it is now called HHL Executive Education.

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