Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Study Master of Business Administration – Leadership, Management and Transformation part-time

Turn your business expertise into leadership impact across your whole organisation. The part-time MBA Leadership, Management and Transformation at OTH Regensburg lets you combine your academic background in business and economics with professional experience and strategic leadership responsibility. The programme is designed for university graduates whose first degree is in business or economics.

One programme structure, two study tracks
During the first two semesters, you explore the developments shaping organisations today and in the future, including technology, digitalisation and sustainability. You then join participants from the MBA General Management in the Advanced Management Phase, where you work together on complex management challenges.

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Zwei Studierende lernen an einem Tisch und eine dritte Studentin kommt vorbei.

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What is the (part-time) Business Administration – Leadership, Management and Transformation (MBA) about?

Leadership responsibility emerges where business, technology and organisational thinking come together. This MBA strengthens your ability to evaluate complex challenges from different perspectives and make informed decisions with confidence.

Understanding future developments
The first two semesters focus on the issues transforming organisations today: technology, digitalisation, data, innovation, transformation and sustainability. You assess their impact on value creation, competitiveness and organisational development.

Developing leadership capability
As the programme progresses, you strengthen your ability to:

lead people and shape effective collaboration
take responsibility for projects and organisational performance
set strategic priorities and manage international business decisions

Creating impact across disciplines

You lead transformation initiatives and bring together different interests to reach sustainable and effective decisions.

In doing so, you assume responsibility not only for your own area of expertise, but for the organisation as a whole.

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Strengths of the degree programme

Over 20 years’ experience. Two paths to leadership.

For over 20 years, OTH Regensburg has been equipping professionals for leadership and management roles through its MBA in General Management. The further developed programme builds on this foundation: the Leadership, Management and Transformation specialisation opens the way for individuals with a background in economics to take on strategic leadership responsibilities.

Your path to strategic leadership
You build on your economics degree and dive straight into the more advanced content. Rather than revising the basics, you broaden your profile to include key future-oriented and leadership topics.

Participants on the MBA in General Management, on the other hand, first lay the foundations in business administration.

Where both pathways converge
Both programmes converge during the Advanced Management phase. Find out more in the following section.

The Advanced Management Phase: Leadership meets interdisciplinary expertise.

The heart of the programme.

You will work alongside specialists and managers from other disciplines to tackle the issues that make management challenging in practice.

Interdisciplinarity is firmly embedded in the curriculum: Leadership meets employment law and conflict resolution; international finance meets operational excellence; controlling meets corporate culture; digital business strategy meets data analytics. In this way, you bring together economic, legal, organisational, cultural and technological requirements to inform robust business decisions.

Through dialogue with other disciplines, you refine your perspective, challenge familiar decision-making frameworks and broaden your frame of reference. Diverse professional experiences become an integral part of the learning process.

Your benefits

You will evaluate management decisions across functional and disciplinary boundaries.
You will translate differing perspectives into a shared strategic direction.
You will strengthen the management and decision-making capabilities required to lead in complex organisations.

Learn. Network. Develop.

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

Learn at a pace that suits your career
Live online sessions on Fridays and face-to-face sessions on Saturdays combine challenging professional development with your work commitments. You can apply new insights directly to your day-to-day work.

A network spanning disciplinary and sectoral boundaries
Supplementary in-person weeks deepen collaboration within your study group. Interaction with participants from diverse professional and managerial backgrounds provides inspiration for leadership roles, transformation projects and cross-functional decision-making.

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 societal developments and identify new opportunities.

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 Leadership, Management and Transformation prepares you for strategic leadership, governance and transformation roles. Depending on your professional background, possible career paths include:

Transform: lead transformation, digitalisation and organisational development initiatives
Connect: take on cross-functional management responsibilities
Provide direction: contribute to strategy and business development
Lead at the interface: work at the intersection of business, technology and organisation
Develop: help organisations and businesses move forward successfully

Zwei Studierende sitzen mit Büchern auf einer Bank in einer Holznische. — Photo: OTH Regensburg | Sebastian Bockisch

Structure and modules

How is the degree programme structured?

Five semesters with a clear progression
The curriculum builds on your academic background in business and economics. During the first two semesters, you deepen your understanding of key future-focused topics. The Advanced Management Phase then brings both study tracks together. In your Master's thesis, you apply your expertise to a practical challenge from your own professional environment. A detailed timetable available for download on this page shows how the modules are distributed across the five semesters and the programme's 25-month duration.

Seven subject areas for developing leadership and transformation expertise

You assess technological options and evaluate their strategic relevance.
Modules
- Design Thinking
- Technology Application Skills
- Digital Technology Skills
You identify opportunities for change and innovation and manage transformation in a data-driven, responsible and value-creating way.
Modules
- Business Transformation & Innovation
- Data-Driven Quality Management
- CSR
- Sustainability in Supply Chains
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 implement change successfully, bring together different interests and contribute to long-term organisational success.
Modules
- Interdisciplinary Project Management
- Operational Excellence
You make well-founded decisions even where interests, objectives and performance indicators compete.
Modules
- Controlling
- International Finance and Accounting
- International Economics and Trade
- Business Simulation (Corporate Entrepreneurship)
You guide technological and organisational developments towards sustainable value creation and competitiveness.
Modules
Digital Business Strategy
Data Analytics
Corporate Culture
You investigate a challenge from your professional environment at an academic level and develop a practical solution.
Modules
- Master's Seminar
- Master's Thesis

Studiereden lernen an Tischen mit ihren Arbeitsmaterialien und unterhalten sich. — Photo: OTH Regensburg | Sebastian Bockisch

Studies and organisational matters

So that everything runs smoothly

Clearly structured. Personally supported.

You receive all the key information on the application process, programme structure, teaching schedules, exams, on-campus sessions and intensive weeks clearly and on time, so you can balance study, work and personal life with confidence.

For organisational questions, the Centre for Continuing Education and Knowledge Management (ZWW) is your personal point of contact throughout the programme.

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 lead and research management.

The MBA Leadership, Management and Transformation combines academic rigour with practical leadership experience. Professors at OTH Regensburg deliver research-informed teaching at a high academic standard. They are joined by experienced executives and professionals from industry who contribute expertise in strategy, transformation and corporate management.

As a result, you critically examine management decisions and transfer new approaches directly into your own professional practice.

Small study groups create space for discussion, individual support and direct feedback.

Inform and apply

The first step towards the future

Inform and apply

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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