M.A. Unternehmensgründung & Entrepreneurship

From the idea to the business concept: With the Master's programme in Business Start-up & Entrepreneurship (M.A.) at the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, you will receive academic further education to start your own business or to support and promote business start-ups. We provide you with the necessary methodical-analytical knowledge and practical skills to develop and implement business ideas and models. You learn to recognise start-up potential, analyse market risks and develop solution strategies as well as market entry strategies for the start-up phase of a company.

Locations

You can study the programme M.A. Unternehmensgründung & Entrepreneurship at the following locations:

Curriculum

Description of the programme

The Master's programme in Business Foundation & Entrepreneurship (M.A.) combines all the necessary foundation, management and leadership skills for setting up your own business or supporting start-ups. You will develop an application-oriented self-understanding of entrepreneurship and can professionally exchange ideas about start-ups and entrepreneurship. We teach you to critically reflect on your own start-up and to push it forward independently, or to precisely analyse the start-up intentions of others. You will learn what constitutes a lively start-up culture and how to involve the stakeholders of start-ups in a goal- and solution-oriented way. You will also learn how to establish and expand relevant business relationships and how to deal with conflicts in start-up teams.

With a successful Master's degree in Business Creation & Entrepreneurships (M.A.), you will have acquired all the relevant knowledge and skills to start your own company, support the development of start-ups or join companies that are responsible for the development and expansion of non-core business opportunities through corporate venturing (CV). Your potential employers also include political institutions and business associations that promote start-up culture and entrepreneurship.

Why enrolling in this programme?

The contents of the Master's programme in Business Start-up & Entrepreneurship (M.A.) are oriented towards the start-up life cycle. This means that you successively build up competences relevant to founding a company, which will support you in your own start-up. The degree programme starts with the basics: you deal with your entrepreneurial mindset, learn about business models and develop a business plan. Legal basics, corporate financing and entrepreneurial tasks are on the agenda in the second semester. In the third semester, you acquire leadership skills as well as knowledge in the areas of marketing, sales and relationship management.

In addition to the theory, you will train your practical skills from the first semester onwards. Our lecturers teach you important tools and instructive case studies. We bring you together with founders and entrepreneurs during excursions and learning trips. In our start-up boot camp, coaches show you how to pitch successfully and perfect your business idea. In integrated practical projects, you apply your theoretical knowledge in practice.

Accreditations & awards

All study programmes at the Hochschule Fresenius Heidelberg are accredited before they start for the first time and then regularly checked for conformity with the regulations. This ensures that they meet the quality standards of the Accreditation Council Foundation. The accreditation system in Germany provides for higher education institutions to have either individual study programmes (so-called programme accreditation) or the internal quality assurance system of the higher education institution (so-called system accreditation) accredited. The FIBAA (Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation) accreditation of the study programmes of the Hochschule Fresenius Heidelberg guarantees the equivalence of corresponding study and examination achievements as well as degrees and enables student mobility within the scope of German law and the Lisbon Convention. Studying at the Hochschule Fresenius Heidelberg guarantees you a degree that meets all the requirements of the German accreditation system and the quality standards in the European Higher Education Area.

Overview

Degree: Master of Arts
Programme type: full-time
ECTS points: 120
Language: German

state-recognised

Start of studies: winter semester
Regular period of studies: 4 semesters

Application deadlines:
15/09/2023 (WS), 15/03/2023 (SS)

German language skills required

« to Hochschule Fresenius

Study prerequisites

higher education entrance qualification

You do not have a higher education entrance qualification? Apply for a Studienkolleg! Look out for this icon   on the university profiles.

Check admission

without numerus clausus (What does that mean?)

finished Bachelor studies

Language certificate German

Note: If you do not meet the requirements, you might still be considered for admission.

Application documents

Good to know

With the Competence Center Entrepreneurship (CCE), we support you in promoting your own self-employment. The CCE is a practical contact point and platform through which you can meet exciting entrepreneurs, founders and investors. As a start-up network recognised by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Fresenius University of Applied Sciences received EXIST funding in January 2020 to further develop and professionalise start-up support.

Financing of studies

You are interested in studying at a private university, but you are alienated by the high tuition fees? Don't worry! We are helping you with finding a suitable option to finance your studies.