Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Study Master of Business Administration – General Management part-time

The part-time MBA General Management at OTH Regensburg enables you to combine your professional experience with entrepreneurial thinking and decision-making responsibility. The programme is designed for university graduates whose first degree is not in business or economics.

Turn your professional expertise into responsibility for business decisions.

One programme structure, two study tracks
The first two semesters provide a solid foundation in business administration. You then enter the Advanced Management Phase, where you work alongside participants from the Leadership, Management and Transformation study track on current management challenges.

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What is the (part-time) Business Administration – General Management programme about (MBA)?

In the MBA General Management programme, you develop the ability to assess complex management decisions in their broader context. You learn to balance competing objectives, take different stakeholder interests into account and develop solutions that work in practice.

Understand the bigger picture
You learn how organisations are managed and how to prioritise strategic courses of action. You analyse the interplay between markets, organisational structures and value creation and use these insights to identify appropriate courses of action.

Develop leadership skills
You strengthen your ability to:

motivate people and provide direction
foster collaboration across professional and disciplinary boundaries
resolve conflicts constructively
manage projects and change processes successfully

Help shape change
You assess technological developments in terms of their strategic relevance and manage their integration into business and decision-making processes.

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Strengths of the degree programme

Over 20 years’ experience. Two pathways to leadership.

For over 20 years, OTH Regensburg has been equipping professionals without a first degree in economics for leadership and management roles through its MBA in General Management.

The further developed study programme builds on this foundation: the new specialisation in Leadership, Management and Transformation opens the way to leadership roles for those with a degree in economics. Both specialisations combine practical relevance with business management expertise.

Your path to management responsibility
In the MBA in General Management, you start from where you are today. Building on your academic studies and professional experience, you will acquire the business management skills required for management roles. The Leadership, Management and Transformation programme delves deeper into key future-oriented topics based on an economics foundation.

Where both paths converge
Both programmes converge in the Advanced Management phase.

The Advanced Management Phase: Specialist knowledge meets leadership.

The heart of the programme.

Effective business leadership begins where your specialist expertise is enhanced by business, strategic and organisational perspectives.

You will work alongside specialists and managers from other disciplines on the issues that make management challenging in practice, contributing your own expertise and professional experience.

Interdisciplinarity is firmly embedded in the curriculum: your specialist knowledge intersects with management accounting and corporate culture, with leadership, employment law and conflict resolution, and with digital business strategy and data analytics. In this way, you bring together technical, economic, organisational, legal and cultural requirements to make sound decisions.

Through dialogue with experts in business administration and other disciplines, you will learn on an equal footing, challenge familiar ways of thinking and broaden your frame of reference. Diverse professional experiences become an integral part of the learning process.

What you’ll gain

You’ll assess management decisions from the perspective of the organisation as a whole.
You’ll understand the logic behind finance, management accounting and operational excellence, and speak the language of management.
You’ll combine professional expertise with entrepreneurial thinking and a sense of responsibility.

Learn. Network. Develop.

This programme format brings teaching, discussion and the application of theory to your day-to-day working life.

Learn at a pace that suits your career
Live online teaching on Fridays and face-to-face sessions on Saturdays reliably combine your studies with your career. You can apply new management approaches directly to your own area of responsibility.

A network spanning industry boundaries
Supplementary on-campus weeks strengthen the cohesion of your study group. You gain first-hand insight into other roles and fields of work and forge contacts that will support your career path in the long term.

Inspiration from a university of applied sciences
OTH Regensburg connects you with research, events and the diversity of its academic disciplines. This enables you to confidently assess economic, technological and social developments and recognise new interconnections.

Space to develop your own profile

Go deeper: library and modern learning and workspaces
Set your own priorities: elective modules and additional offerings
Continue to grow: individual skills development

Career opportunities

What will the MBA do for your career?

Greater responsibility. Greater scope to shape decisions.

The MBA prepares you to take on leadership roles involving responsibility for results, budgets and organisational management.

Lead: manage teams, projects and organisational units
Connect: build bridges between specialist functions and management
Develop: contribute to the further development of companies and organisations
Provide direction: help shape strategy and business development
Innovate: implement innovation and transformation initiatives
Act entrepreneurially: assume responsibility through entrepreneurial activity or self-employment

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Structure and modules

How is the degree programme structured?

Five semesters with a clear progression
The first two semesters provide the foundation in business administration. During the Advanced Management Phase, the two study tracks come together. In your Master's thesis, you apply the knowledge and skills you have acquired to a practical question from your own professional environment.

Six subject areas for developing your management expertise

You broaden your perspective from your own area of responsibility to the organisation as a whole. You assess and prioritise strategic decisions at the organisational level.
Modules
- Management
- Organisation
- Marketing
- Economics
- Human Resources
- Law
- Accounting
- Finance
- Taxation
You take responsibility, provide direction, motivate people and create effective forms of collaboration.
Modules
- Leadership
- Presentation and Facilitation
- Mediation and Conflict Resolution
- Employment Law for Managers
You manage change in a focused manner and contribute to the sustainable performance of your teams.
Modules
- Interdisciplinary Project Management
- Operational Excellence
You make well-founded financing and investment decisions and take on responsibility in an international environment.
Modules
- Controlling
- International Finance and Accounting
- International Economics and Trade
- Business Simulation (Corporate Entrepreneurship)
You use digital technologies and data to systematically strengthen value creation, competitiveness and the quality of decision-making.
Modules
- Digital Business Strategy
- Data Analytics
- Corporate Culture
You examine a topic from your professional practice at an academic level and develop a concrete solution for your organisation.
Modules
- Master's Seminar
- Master's Thesis

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Studies and organisational matters

So that everything runs smoothly

Clearly structured. Personally supported.

You receive all important information about the application process, programme structure, dates, on-campus sessions and intensive weeks in good time and in a clear format. This allows you to plan reliably and focus on what matters most.

For organisational questions, the Centre for Further Education and Knowledge Management (ZWW) is your dedicated point of contact throughout your studies.

All face-to-face lectures take place on the OTH Regensburg campus. The entire infrastructure of the university is available to you during your studies (IT equipment, library, student house, canteen, university sports, etc.). You are regularly enrolled, like all other students.
Our study model is specially tailored to the needs of working professionals and allows for an optimal balance between studies, career and private life:
- Online courses: Fridays from 3:00 pm to 7:45 pm
- On-campus sessions: Saturdays from 8:00 am to 3:15 pm on campus
- Full-time weeks: at the beginning of each semester (Monday to Friday)
- Recordings: selected online lectures are available for review
- There are generally no lectures during the summer months.
- The fifth semester is devoted exclusively to the Master's thesis.
The degree programme is accredited and bears the seal of the Accreditation Council.
Completed university degree: at least six theoretical semesters with usually 210 ECTS, but at least 180 ECTS. Equivalent domestic or foreign degrees are also possible (to be assessed by the Master's Committee).
Professional experience: at least one year of qualified professional practice after the first degree.
Language skills:
German: DSH-2 or equivalent certificate (for non-German-speaking education)
English: Level B2 according to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR)
The one year of qualified professional experience can also be acquired after commencing the programme. In this case, entry is via the MBA module programme.
The Master's Committee for the MBA programme is the decision-making body responsible for admission issues.

Benefit from our combined expertise

Lecturers

Learn from experts who practise and research management

The MBA General Management combines academic depth with practical leadership experience. Professors at OTH Regensburg provide academically rigorous teaching informed by current research. They are joined by experienced executives and professionals from industry who contribute expertise in corporate management, transformation and strategic leadership.

As a result, you experience management as an applied discipline rather than purely as theory. You examine real decision-making situations, explore new approaches and apply insights directly to your own management practice.

Small study groups provide space for personal exchange, individual support and constructive feedback.

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The first step towards the future

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E-mail: mba(at)oth-regensburg.de

Tuition fees

15,500 € in total (4 x 3,875 €, each payment to be made in two instalments; digital teaching materials included), plusstudent union fee/RVV semester ticket; from the 6th semester onwards, the following costs apply: 250 € administration fee, plusstudent union fee/RVV semester ticket

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