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LEADERSHIP, ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION (M.A.)

▶ 4 semesters or 3 semesters with a 210 ECTS Bachelor's degree

▶ Study classic, job-based or project-based

▶ Start in the winter semester

business woman in a meeting

LEADERSHIP, ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION (M.A.)

▶ 4 semesters or 3 semesters with a 210 ECTS Bachelor's degree

▶ Study classic, job-based or project-based

▶ Start in the winter semester

project group in a meeting

LEADERSHIP, ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION (M.A.)

▶ 4 semesters or 3 semesters with a 210 ECTS Bachelor's degree

▶ Study classic, job-based or project-based

▶ Start in the winter semester

Leadership, Entrepreneurship & Innovation (M.A.)

Choose your preferred form of study:

Regular Part-time

  • Start: Winter semester 2023/24
  • Length of study: 4 semesters
  • Degree: Master of Arts (M.A.)
  • Credit points: 120 CP
  • Course times: 3 days per week

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Combine business management with innovation management - and help shape the future

Do you really want to make a career for yourself and lead the companies of tomorrow to success with your innovative ideas? Or maybe even start your own company? Then this degree programme is the right one for you!

In times of advancing digitalisation and ever faster market transformations, companies are constantly facing new challenges. The need for fresh and sustainable business models as well as innovative products and services is increasing: More than ever, managers are needed who represent modern leadership approaches and creatively and accurately implement the marketing potential of new products and services. Against this backdrop, the Master's programme "Leadership, Entrepreneurship & Innovation (M.A.)" educates trains managers who will lead the companies of tomorrow to success.

With this degree programme, you qualify for corporate management positions at an academic level. Your studies are practical and application-oriented, and with your degree you will fulfil all the requirements for developing new business models and strategies and leading companies in the transition to digital, sustainable and responsible business.

Top 6 reasons for studying Business Administration at the FHD

High success rate

Thanks to their practical orientation, our alumni have above-average job market opportunities and usually secure a job before the end of their studies. Companies as employers are particularly enthusiastic about the methods and tools that graduates bring with them from their studies at the FHD. This enables you to enter the world of work straight away, leading directly to your dream job.

Practical studies

We offer you a high level of practical relevance with an application orientation and at the same time sound and up-to-date theoretical knowledge. Case studies and specific practical projects allow you to try things out for yourself. During an internship in a company of your choice, you will develop the goal-oriented action and problem-solving skills you have learned. 

Diverse career opportunities

Whether it's HR management, marketing, logistics or controlling - you are ideally equipped for numerous functions and management tasks in companies. This allows you to try out different companies while you are still studying, without committing yourself straight away. Our compact teaching times provide the necessary scope for this. Thanks to the international orientation, you can also pursue a career worldwide.

Fokus on sustainability

Sustainability is an overarching cross-cutting theme throughout your studies. Whether economic, social or ecological aspects - you will learn about responsible management and modern leadership in all areas. In your own projects, you will create concepts for new products and processes and further develop existing business models. 

At eye level and individual support

At the FHD, you are not an anonymous number. Our professors get to know you over the course of your studies and support your individual strengths and potential. The exchange is always at eye level. You actively participate in small groups and develop your skills. This is how you learn teamwork naturally during your studies. 

Attractive location

You will study in an exceptionally attractive city, where numerous companies from various sectors as well as consultancies and associations are represented. This means you can easily gain your first professional experience alongside your studies and at the same time have an exciting cultural offer and many nearby excursion destinations with moderate housing costs.

The most important at a glance

Programme Profile

LEADERSHIP: Modern strategic leadership concepts and New Work are rapidly gaining in importance and have recently become essential skills for taking on senior management roles. In your Master's degree program, you will learn how to develop mission statements, structures and strategies for companies and how to implement them correctly. With a focus on people, you will find, develop and retain suitable personnel for implementation. You lead employees through both long-term change and agile projects. Your roles are decision-maker and role model as well as coach and mentor. You are committed to sustainability and corporate social responsibility. In this way, you will steer your company to success as an attractive employer despite the war for talent and shortage of skilled workers.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Developments such as digital transformation, artificial intelligence and climate change require new business models and are changing entire sectors of the economy and their working environments. The degree program shows you how to understand and assert yourself as an entrepreneur within a company, design and build new business units or, if necessary, set them up yourself. You will learn how to analyze existing business elements and structures as well as their interaction and how to redesign or even create new ones based on new ways of thinking. The development of new strategic and sustainable business areas is your passion. From project financing, controlling, legal and tax to ongoing business development, you manage the processes and teams. Change can come and you proactively shape it.

INNOVATION: Innovation cycles are faster than ever, competition is increasing and companies need professional innovation management and marketing. The Master's program provides in-depth know-how on how to systematically innovate and market products and services as well as processes and procedures, promote innovation structures and cultures and build teams with the right mindset. You will analyze market potential, derive precise and sustainable marketing strategies and take responsibility for the environment and society. You measure success with data-driven and digital marketing tools and expand your knowledge in the field of data science. As a result, your decisions are always goal-oriented and well-founded and success in the market is no coincidence.

 

Study contents

During your studies, you will deepen your knowledge in the following subject areas:

Leadership:

  • Leadership & Strategy
  • Agile project management
  • Strategic HR Management & New Work
  • Responsibility & Sustainability Management

Entrepreneurship:

  • Project Funding & Pricing
  • Business Creation (Intrapreneurship)
  • Business Development
  • Law & Taxes
  • Strategic Controlling

Innovation:

  • Strategic Marketing
  • Digital & Data-Driven Marketing
  • Advanced Innovation Management
  • User Experience & Prototyping
  • Data Science

You can set your own individual focus, depending on the area you would like to work in after graduation.

Practical and application-oriented studies

As lectures only take place two to three days a week, you have enough time to build on your practical experience or work on your own projects alongside your studies. You can contribute and develop your own ideas or projects from your job at any time during your studies. The close combination of technical and methodological skills and their application in real work situations is a fundamental part of the course. Our network of renowned companies continues to grow and our students realize projects together with potential or their own employers during their studies.

Degree and career prospects

Upon successful completion of the program, you will receive the internationally recognized Master of Arts Leadership, Entrepreneurship & Innovation (M.A.). With this degree, you are excellently qualified for management and leadership positions in business. Depending on your personal focus, a variety of career paths will open up for you after graduation:

In the area of leadership, for example:

  • Head of HR Management
  • Director People & Culture
  • Senior Coach / Consultant for executives

In the field of entrepreneurship e.g.:

  • Head of Business Development
  • Lead Transformation Manager
  • Founder

In the area of Innovation e.g.

  • Chief Marketing Officer
  • Director of Innovation Management
  • Senior Technology & Product Manager

Tuition Fees and Financing

As a private university, we offer you many advantages. In order to be able to offer you this high quality of study, we have to charge tuition fees. As a private university, the FHD is not supported by public funds, but has to finance itself completely. As an FHD Bachelor graduate, you will receive a 10% discount on tuition fees.

Tuition fees for the Leadership, Entrepreneurship & Innovation (M.A.) Master's program currently start at 625 euros per month. (depending on the payment method you choose)

Of course, there are various ways in which you can finance your studies. You can find everything you need to know about tuition fees and financing in the study orientation section.

We will be happy to look at your individual situation and find solutions together.

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Study requirements and application

The admission requirement for the degree programme is a university degree recognised in Germany with professional qualifications, namely a relevant Bachelor's degree or a diploma with at least 180 CP.

Relevant degrees are those in the field of economics and in related subjects, such as

  • Business administration
  • Economics
  • Industrial engineering
  • Business informatics
  • Business mathematics
  • Business Education
  • Business Psychology
  • International Business
  • Digital Business Management
  • Marketing Management
  • Tourism Management
  • Event Management,
  • Communication Management

as well as courses of study that show relevant business management components of at least 30 CP.

If you would like to apply for this study program, please send us the completed enrolment application with the corresponding documents by e-mail to bewerbung@fh-dresden.eu or online via our application form. Everything else about the application process can be found here.

*If you have a Bachelor's degree with 210 CP, there is the possibility to shorten the Master's program by one semester. We will gladly check this option individually after receiving your application.

Study the way that suits you

In the Master's degree program in Leadership, Entrepreneurship & Innovation (M.A.), you can complete each module in three different ways and thus adapt it to your work situation. This allows you to develop solutions for your job directly during your studies and receive professional support.

    

These companions will help you move forward

Here you will find central institutions and people who will accompany you on your way through your studies, from your first contact to everyday life as a student right through to graduation.
 

Always at the cutting edge: our project and internship partners

 

The Leadership, Entrepreneurship & Innovation (M.A.) degree program has an extensive cooperation network of companies, associations and research institutions. Our teaching and research is practice-oriented, interdisciplinary and incorporates the experience of our project partners into our teaching. In this way, we guarantee our students the current practical relevance of our teaching as well as a high academic standard.

Always open to new ideas: Our International Office & university network

 

The FHD has a constantly growing international network of university partnerships. This means you can spend your semester abroad at one of our partner universities of your choice. Our International Office will guide you through the entire application process and advise you on accommodation, funding and any other questions you may have.

Always there for you: our student advisory service

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