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Part-time MBA Overview

An estimated 90% of MBA programs are offered part-time, partly as “Executive MBA”, partly without special requirements. What is the advantage of this, how high the costs are, what you should know about the division between work and studies and of course all part-time MBA courses are listed below.

Why is the MBA actually in demand part-time? Logical answer - anyone who has arrived in professional life and has taken the first steps up the career ladder will no longer want to get out and forego the monthly salary transfer. In addition, there is also the respect for not finding a follow-up job after a break for a full-time MBA.

Completing an MBA part-time can be a good decision - but you should also realistically assess that a hard time is waiting for you:

A lot of time and energy is required to complete the course part-time. It is important here that family, friends, partners and employers support you in your studies. Determination and perseverance are required.

Anna, MBA General Management at TH Deggendorf

Basic information

An MBA in addition to your job or a break and a full-time degree? The students are as different as the study model. Many who opt for the full-time MBA are looking for a distance from their previous job, looking for new perspectives personally and professionally. This can be the Germanist who goes to an investment bank after graduation, as well as the investment banker who switches to an aid organization.

On the other hand, those who already have two feet in their professional life opt for a part-time MBA. At the beginning of their studies, they are easily five to ten years older than full-time MBAs and therefore have more work experience. The networking effect, which many graduates describe in our experience reports as a major advantage of their studies, is much more likely to be felt if the MBA is taken on a part-time basis.

How does a part-time MBA study work?

There are two types of part-time MBAs. Please note that we only deal with the courses of study that are mainly carried out as face-to-face courses (so you have to be physically present). If you are interested in distance learning, we have put together all the information on our MBA distance learning page. Alternatively, you can consider an online MBA.

1) weekend study

The lectures usually take place from Friday morning to Sunday afternoon. The exact lecture times vary from provider to provider.

Examples:

• FOM University: Usually every two weeks on Fridays from 6 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. and on Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• TH Nuremberg: Three days a week (weekdays from 5:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. and Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.)

2) Block study

Block events take place at regular intervals, several times per semester (certainly once a month). During this time, the MBA is not part-time, but full-time. The program is called "part-time" because you can continue to work normally in the other weeks.

Example:

• University of Würzburg: 70 attendance days in two years, spread over 10 one to two week block events

Many "mixed" forms

If you want to study an MBA part-time, the question of the course of study is one of the most important. As you can see below, there are also numerous study models that use a mixture of weekend and block study.

Examples:

• Frankfurt School of Finance: Two to four times per semester on Fridays from 1:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. plus a six-day block week
• Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences: Usually eight Saturdays and max. five days of the week per semester
• HWR Berlin: Four attendance weeks (Saturdays to Saturdays all day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) and eight attendance blocks (Sundays 6 p.m. to 9:15 p.m., Fridays / Saturdays / Sundays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) in 24 months

Is there a ranking for part-time MBAs?

Unfortunately, no. It is generally difficult to get an overview of part-time or distance learning MBAs using rankings. In our article on rankings for part-time MBAs, we dared to approach it.

By the way: You can also go abroad to work

“Just” because you want to study the MBA part-time, it does not mean that you have to do without international experience or a degree from a foreign university. There are two ways to incorporate international experience into the part-time MBA:

1.) German university with international study phases

There are built-in phases abroad, especially for the higher-quality MBAs at German universities, but they vary widely in scope.

Examples:

• The Frankfurt School of Finance offers a one-week module abroad in China, the USA, Slovenia or France.
• At Mannheim Business School, two one-week stays abroad are included, for example in North America or Asia.
• The Heilbronn University offers MBA Global Business at together with the University of Louisville (USA), where you spend 2x 4.5 study weeks.

You could say that this is a "foreign experience light", which is of course also due to the fact that as a part-time MBA student, you cannot simply take several months off to study abroad.

2.) Part-time MBA at a foreign university

Of course there is also the possibility to choose a foreign university directly. The full-time MBA students tend to go abroad, but there are also options for part-time courses.

Examples:

• University of St. Gallen: The attendance phases of the Part Time MBA usually take place one week per month, sometimes at different locations such as Barcelona, ​​Copenhagen, Oxford or Salzburg.
• There is a Part Time MBA at HEC Paris, which takes place one week a month in Paris and also contains worldwide modules abroad.
• The Business School of the Vienna University of Economics and Business also offers stays abroad in Russia, Asia and the USA in 40 days of classroom instruction.

So there are numerous opportunities to study the MBA part-time abroad. However, you should note that the effort and costs are quite high. Depending on the place of study, you have to plan a lot of travel time, the tuition fees are usually significantly more expensive and not everyone can take an "MBA vacation" every few months for a week. The advantage of the hardships is, however, that you complete a somewhat more unusual degree, which makes a little more impression on employers than a classic German MBA.