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| Type | State University Business School |
|---|---|
| Established | 1979 |
| Dean | Prof. Dr. Ottmar Schneck |
| Students | ca. 400 |
| Location | Reutlingen , Baden-Württemberg , Germany |
| Colors | Blue and Yellow |
| Website | www.esb-reutlingen.de |
The European School of Business or ESB Reutlingen is the business school of Reutlingen University in Germany. As a member of the International Partnership of Business Schools, it offers international dual-degree undergraduate business degrees together with a number of European and American business schools, as well as MSc and MBA programs. The ESB Reutlingen ranks among the top business schools in Germany.[1]
The IPBS (International Partnership of Business Schools) is a consortium which could be thought of as an international university with branches in various different international locations[citation needed]. The partner universities offer joint bachelor's and master's programs together with ESB. With over 1600 students, IPBS is the largest integrated cooperation program between universities in Europe.
Undergraduate Program
The school offers dual-degree bachelor's programs where students spend two years at ESB and two years at an international partner university, receiving the degrees of both countries (the German degree and its foreign equivalent). Due to the Bologna Process ESB offers a bachelor's degree instead of the "Diplom-Betriebswirt" from 2007 onwards. These programs include two semester-long internships, at least one of which has to be completed abroad.
ESB Reutlingen currently has dual-degree programs with:
- CESEM Reims, France
- Dublin City University, Ireland
- ICADE, Madrid, Spain
- Indiana University Bloomington, USA
- Lancaster University Management School, UK
- Northeastern University, Boston, USA
- Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy
In addition to its half-German, half-international educational concept, ESB mandates a practical corporate experience phase in the form of local and international internships. Students must complete one internship semester in each of their countries of study as part of their core curriculum requirements. The goal of the internships is to allow students to acquire real life corporate experience during their studies and bring theory in contact with practice.
Graduate Program
MBA
ESB offers a full-time and part-time MBA program in International Marketing. This program is the oldest MBA program in Germany, founded in 1984. It is designed for students who have completed an undergraduate degree (e.g. in engineering, natural science, law, or languages). The purpose is to give people whose undergraduate studies were not in the field of business training for international business. Approximately 50% of the students come from outside Germany.
The MBA program can be completed full-time in three semesters or part-time over three years. The part-time program is in the form of distance learning with attendance phases. ESB distance learning materials are already used by a number of other program providers.
A feature of the full-time MBA program is an emphasis course on the Asia-Pacific region. Students who select this specialization attend MBA classes and seminars on this region, as well as learn Chinese or Japanese and spend a fourth semester in East Asia.
The MBA program has a number of partnerships with universities in other countries. The most highly developed are the programs together with Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti, Michigan) and the University of La Plata (La Plata, Argentina).
MSc
ESB also offers a one-year Master of Science in International Management. One semester of the program is spent at ESB Reutlingen, the other semester at one of four international partner schools:
- Dublin City University, Ireland
- Lancaster University Management School, UK
- Reims Management School, France
- Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico
Corporate University Program
Based on the distance learning MBA program, degree courses are being developed in cooperation with industry. These programs provide training for junior managers of the participating companies in international business. ESB provides approximately 80% of the study content, with the remaining 20% provided by business partners on topics specific to their industry. ESB is responsible for examinations and awards the title of MBA. Examples of this form of MBA studies are programs with Heidelberger Printing Machines, the medical technology industry in Tuttlingen, and with financial services provider MLP.
International Alumni Network
Many alumni remain in close contact with ESB and return to the school as speakers or as company representatives. The alumni association acts as a link between ESB Reutlingen, professors, and the university’s administration. Currently over 1600 graduates from the undergraduate programs and over 800 graduates from the MBA program are members of the alumni association, giving the ESB Reutlingen one of the largest alumni networks of any German business school.[citation needed] The alumni organize annual alumni meetings, monthly get-togethers in almost every major city in the world[citation needed], a job listing service, as well as many other services.
The Mentoring Program, which has been in existence since 2003, has matched up 300 mentors with mentees. Here every student (mentee) is allocated a personal mentor from the alumni community. A mentor is an important contact person for students for all study- and work-related questions.
Corporate Sponsors
ESB’s group of sponsors, V.I.M.A (International Management Education Sponsorship Club), has been in existence since 1999. 35 well-known companies are currently members. They support ESB’s goals and help to finance its activities. These companies seek active contact with students at company fairs (FIFO) and the Career Forum.
The ESB's current corporate sponsors include:
BASF AG • becos GmbH • Beiersdorf AG • Booz Allen Hamilton GmbH • Robert Bosch GmbH • The Boston Consulting Group GmbH • Capgemini Deutschland GmbH • Citigroup Global Markets Deutschland AG & Co. KGaA • Coca-Cola GmbH • Daimler AG • Deloitte Consulting GmbH • Deutsche Post World Net Business Consulting GmbH • Ernst & Young AG • General Electric, Energy Division • Hewlett Packard GmbH • Hilti Deutschland GmbH • Lilly Deutschland GmbH • L’Oréal Deutschland GmbH • Loyalty Partner GmbH • Masterfoods GmbH • Metro International S.A. • MLP Finanzdienstleistungen AG • Novartis Consumer Health GmbH • Otto GmbH & Co. KG • Procter & Gamble Holding GmbH • Roche Diagnostics GmbH • RGE – Rolvering, Germann & Effing Unternehmensberatung PartG • SAP AG • Schwarz Beteiligungs- und Finanz-GmbH (Lidl) • Shell Deutschland Oil GmbH • Solon Management Consulting GmbH & Co.KG • R. Stahl AG • Stern Stewart GmbH • Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH • ZF Friedrichshafen
Corporate Fairs
The main company fairs on the ESB campus to which V.I.M.A members can participate are: the Corporate Forum (Firmen Forum, FIFO) and the Career Fair (Karriere Forum, KAFO). [1]
History
ESB Reutlingen was founded in 1979 through a cooperation agreement with its French partner university in Reims, Middlesex University in London and the then-"Reutlingen European Study Program for Business Studies." Additional partner universities quickly joined and formed a network of business schools known as the International Partnership of Business Schools (IPBS).
New partner universities are only permitted membership of the IPBS with the agreement of all partners in the network. This ensures that high quality requirements of all partners are met. In 1986 ICADE in Madrid was admitted followed in 1996 by Dublin City University and Northeastern University in Boston, and in 1998 by Indiana University Bloomington. In 2004 Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy became members.
In 2002 the previously autonomous Reutlingen MBA study programs, which had been in existence since 1984, joined forces with ESB. Thus ESB became a fully-fledged business school with proven undergraduate and new master's programs. Since then, a MSc program and corporate MBAs have been added to complement the original MBA offering.
As of mid-2008, Reutlingen University merged all three of its business schools (ESB, School of International Business, and Production Management) into one school under the European School of Business name.
School of International Business
The School of International Business or SIB Reutlingen was one of the business schools of Reutlingen University. It offered a number of international undergraduate and graduate programs, some of which were dual degree. It was consistently ranked among the best business schools in Germany, and merged with the European School of Business in 2008.
(Content merged from School of International Business.)