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Programme Duration

18 monthsProgramme duration

Tuitionfee

44,000 EURTuition Fee/year

Application Deadline

15 Dec, 2026Application Deadline

Starting Month

SepStarting Month

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Programme overview

Specialisations

General Management, Innovation / Knowledge Management, Leadership

Degree

EMBA

Study Level

MBA

Study Mode

On Campus

The Executive MBA from ESMT Berlin is a comprehensive learning experience designed to deliver impact at every level: personal, professional, and organizational. 

What makes our Executive MBA different? With ESMT, your leadership growth is not abstract: it is applied, coached, and lived. Over the course of the Executive MBA, you will:

  • Develop the leader within through deep coaching, reflective modules, and peer dialogue. Emerge with the confidence to lead with authenticity and purpose.
  • Apply learning in real time with a modular program designed for ambitious professionals who don't want to hit pause. Build tangible leadership skills you can start to apply while you are still studying.
  • Accelerate your career and your organization by opening new possibilities for progress. Sharpen your strategic thinking, expand your global perspectives, and deliver results.
  • Thrive in Europe's innovation capital: with six in-person modules based on our campus in the heart of the city, Berlin becomes a part of your education. Grow in a city known for reinvention, diversity, and entrepreneurial energy.

Programme overview

Specialisations

General Management, Innovation / Knowledge Management, Leadership

Degree

EMBA

Study Level

MBA

Study Mode

On Campus

The Executive MBA from ESMT Berlin is a comprehensive learning experience designed to deliver impact at every level: personal, professional, and organizational. 

What makes our Executive MBA different? With ESMT, your leadership growth is not abstract: it is applied, coached, and lived. Over the course of the Executive MBA, you will:

  • Develop the leader within through deep coaching, reflective modules, and peer dialogue. Emerge with the confidence to lead with authenticity and purpose.
  • Apply learning in real time with a modular program designed for ambitious professionals who don't want to hit pause. Build tangible leadership skills you can start to apply while you are still studying.
  • Accelerate your career and your organization by opening new possibilities for progress. Sharpen your strategic thinking, expand your global perspectives, and deliver results.
  • Thrive in Europe's innovation capital: with six in-person modules based on our campus in the heart of the city, Berlin becomes a part of your education. Grow in a city known for reinvention, diversity, and entrepreneurial energy.

Admission Requirements

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EMBA applicants should have the following:


  • Seven or more years of professional experience, including three years of managerial experience with an emphasis on leadership qualities and achievements (managing people, process, or budgets)
  • An undergraduate degree of at least three years duration (minimum 180 ECTS), or equivalent qualification
  • Strong score in an admissions test
  • A test waiver may be granted if you hold a PhD, or studied a STEM subject at bachelor’s or master’s level.


ESMT accepts scores from the following admission tests:
  • The ESMT admission test (BAT, learn more). This is a two-hour, online, test that costs US$100 and is delivered by Business Test Methods. Contact the admissions team if you want to take the BAT.
  • The GMAT exam
  • GRE
  • GMAC Executive Assessment (EA)

  • English proficiency test score (if applicable)
    If English is your native language or you earned a university degree exclusively taught in English you do not need to take an English proficiency test. If you have worked for 12 months or more in an English speaking country, or an organization whose language of communication was English, the English proficiency test requirement may be waived. A strong command of the English language should also be demonstrated in the admission interview.

15 Dec 2026
18 Months
Sep

Tuition fees

Domestic
44,000 EUR
International
44,000 EUR

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