European School of Business

ESB Business School

Type	public university business school
Established	1971
Dean	Prof. Dr. Andreas Taschner
Academic staff	ca. 60
Administrative staff	~50
Students	ca. 2500
Location	Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Campus	Reutlingen University
Colors	Blue and White
Website	www.esb-business-school.de

The ESB Business School (formerly ESB Reutlingen) is Reutlingen University's business school founded in 1979 and based in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Since 2008, the school is responsible for all business related degree programs of the university. In addition to the former ESB programs, it also includes the former School of International Business (SIB) and Production Management (PM). The school offers 20 undergraduate and graduate programs as well as double degree programs in cooperation with numerous other business schools from around the world. The ESB Business School ranks among the top business schools in Germany.

In addition to its very international educational concept, the ESB mandates a work-study phase in the form of semester-long business internships.

Bachelor of Science in International Management and a second bachelor's degree of a partner university within the International Partnership of Business Schools in 4 years.

Students spend two years at the ESB in Reutlingen, Germany, 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, the ESB offers a bachelor's degree instead of the "Diplom-Betriebswirt" from the graduating class of 2011 onwards.

Below is a list of the partner universities for the dual-degree programs Bachelor of Science in International Management Double Degree:

The International Business (IB) program, unique in Germany, offers students the possibility of acquiring within only four years the degrees Bachelor of Science (BSc) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) or another Master’s degree (MSc/MA) within only four years. Students complete three and a half academic years at Reutlingen University. For a defined number of students this can be followed by an additional semester at Napier University, resulting in a second Bachelor’s degree or by a fourth academic year at one of ten partner universities in America, Asia, Australia or Europe, resulting in a Master’s degree.

The IB program provides a broad spectrum of expertise and methods in business studies and enables the students to select a special area of concentration while at the ESB, as well as at the partner university – e.g. in Management, Marketing or Finance.