Global Recruiters choose EBS Business School

International recruiters say the EBS Business School is their favorite school in Germany and one of the top 30 business schools in Europe, according to the QS Employers’ Choice ranking, which came out last week.

The Employers' Choice ranking, published by education company QS, identifies the 200 business schools currently preferred by international employers for the purpose of hiring MBA graduates.

The list is compiled from an annual survey of 5,007 Human Resource managers and line managers with recruiting responsibilities around the world.

The EBS Business School (EBS) was founded in 1971. Unusually for a German university, all programs from undergraduate to executive education level are taught in English.

Graduates of the School’s BSc in Business earn an average starting salary of 54,000 Euros and it consistently ranks as one of Germany’s leading universities for business studies.

Graduate Manuel Siekmann, who now works at management consulting firm Booz & Company, said his program’s “strong international dimension” and opportunities for “in-depth specialization” prepared him for the challenges of his career.

US-based Jon Reifschneider graduated in 2009 with an MBA and has since founded his own company, 31Projects, to connect social enterprises, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs with students who have relevant interests and skills.

Reifschneider, who spent a semester at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad as part of his MBA said the program turned him into a well-rounded leader and manager who, “Can wear many hats and be a master of all the diverse aspects of running a business."

The School offers three MBA programs for people with three to five years of work experience, including a healthcare management executive MBA. It also offers a Master in Business Innovation, open to professionals with two years of work experience, and seven pre-experience MSc programs.

Stefan Lauer, a board member of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, said that EBS Business School’s practical approach to teaching and learning, “Should set a precedent in Germany."

Rosemarie Ng, who heads European and Middle East recruitment for Japanese investment bank Nomura said the firm had “historically hired strong, diverse Analysts from EBS,” and would continue to actively recruit from the School.

Hiring managers at Procter & Gamble said they have “great examples” of EBS recruits within the firm.

As well as international firms, EBS graduates are well-placed to enter Germany’s strong local job market. The School is located just outside Frankfurt, Germany’s financial center, where six of the country’s ten biggest banks are headquartered. The Frankfurt stock exchange is the second-largest in Europe after London.

A hiring manager at German consumer products firm Henkel described EBS students as “highly interesting” because of their intercultural sensitivity and awareness of Corporate Social Responsibility issues.

The country experienced a record quarter of economic growth earlier this year and exports are booming. According to the QS report, many service companies are desperate to recruit German MBAs to serve their successful German clients.

Text: Maria Ahmed for BusinessBecause

From India to Germany - International experience at EBS Business School

There are many success stories of international students coming to EBS Business School in Germany and proving to everyone why they deserve a special and honorable spot in the university's history.

Here is an amazing article of a friend of mine who tells the beautiful story of an Indian exchange student at EBS. There is nothing else to add, so I'll just let you discover it yourselves.

"As the slogan 'Inspiring Personalities' suggests, EBS is a platform where the world best talent from different nationalities come and learn, inspire and get inspired.Here is the story of  Sowmyalakshmi Sethuraman from Indian Institute ofTechnology ( Department of Management Studies) who has stayed at EBS for a semester as an exchange student.

Globalization is the buzz word today, and no institution of higher education can claim to be truly global without reaching out to the locals in different parts of the world. Having completed my tenure here in EBS as an exchange student from DoMS (Department of Management Studies), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, I couldn’t agree more on the importance of globalization in the field of education.

Braving the cold weather and persistent snow in what was called the coldest winter in Germany in years, EBS was as welcoming as I’d heard about it. It was probably the first time ever for most of us from India to be meeting such an eclectic mix of students, almost from every possible region in the world. Nigeria to Bulgaria, India to Japan. I met people from different nations which I have ever heard of. One of the greatest advantages of such an Exchange Programme is the platform that provided us a learning  about and embrace each other’s’ cultures, diversities, traditions and much more. EBS provided more than one way for such networking.

The MBA Classrooms

Do we get extra marks for class participation? Well, it doesn’t really matter to the students, given the highly charged intellectual environment both the faculty and students foster in every classroom session. As future leaders and managers, we all strive for quality decision making, and what better way to arrive at it than by learning from multiple perspectives of students from all over the globe. A holistic approach to case studies, extensive discussions and debates, listening to each other’s experiences, all in all contributes to learning with an open mind.
The professors come with rich industry experience and excellent academic background, and also extend the learning outside classrooms by arranging meaningful industrial visits.

The ‘E’ quotient

Ethics and Entrepreneurship – these two arguably are the most hotly discussed topics in most of the leading B schools, both having their respective growing relevance in today’s world.
One very unique course which aptly echoes this E-quotient as well as the motto of EBS, ‘inspiring personalities’, was the VIP (Very Inspiring People) course, a series of talks by inspiring people from the field of Social Business / Social Entrepreneurship.  Here, a range of Entrepreneurs shared their stories which aimed at triggering a sense of community in the students, and also highlighting the need for more and more Entrepreneurs today. Innovation and Entrepreneurship was also one such course helping us nurture entrepreneurial skills through workshops and interactive panel discussions.
Through these and many other courses and endeavors, EBS comes across to me as an institution which earnestly makes an effort to imbibe a sense of responsible leadership to its students, by integrating the importance of Ethics in its courses, and not having an isolated approach.

And everything else

 While we enjoyed the quiet and charming countryside on the banks of Rhine and its sprawling vineyards, we planned hard to find the best ways to travel Europe. Writing about our Euro-trotting will probably take pages, be it about visiting places with momentous history, spectacular landscapes or potpourri of diverse culture and art.
Cooking became our newfound hobby, trying everything from the famous German Schnitzels to the Indian tadka in our little kitchen. We had frequent shopping sprees in Frankfurt on bright sunny days and lazy little parties at home over some beer and native wine on coldest of days.
I would sum up by saying that your experiences and learning will multiply, if you choose to come as an exchange student to EBS.  It takes you away from home, only to find a new home for you everywhere you go."