HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

Our HHL family consists of a wide variety of members from different countries, speaking multiple languages, bringing enriching backgrounds, renowned expertise, various responsibilities and diverse focuses. Therefore, HHL is known for its mixture of innovative, international and individual approaches by students, staff, faculty and alumni.

HHL is not only Germany’s business school with the longest tradition and the birthplace of modern management education, but also receives excellent ratings for the quality of teaching, based on small classes, high-performance and intensive teamwork. In addition, with more than 250 startups founded by HHL Alumni, our business school is the top address for entrepreneurship in Germany.

On our campus, you can meet students from about 60 nations. Our students not only benefit from seven active student initiatives and an excellent career service, but also from the know-how and the network of nearly 2,500 alumni. Thus, our business school thrives on variety, on the breadth of ideas and from the diversity of the people studying here.

As our students, also the HHL lecturers and business professionals come from all over the world. The members of the HHL faculty exert a decisive influence on the outstanding reputation of our business school. They offer a wide range of expertise and provide state-of-the-art management education on a very high level combined with practical insight into current best practices and upcoming trends in close cooperation with industry. Latest research results are fed back into the teaching.

An institution can operate most successfully with a motivated and reliable team in the background. With high commitment, the HHL staff offers plenty of personal services: from career development to internal and external communication, professional networking, study guidance and support for student initiatives and events. We are working every day to ensure a pleasant study- and research-friendly environment for both, our students and faculty.

“We educate effective, responsible and entrepreneurial business leaders through outstanding teaching, research and practice. We are driven by excellence in teaching and research to benefit our students, stakeholders and society. Our academic quality is underscored by our global outlook and a lifelong premier service and support network.”

HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, founded in 1898 as Germany’s first business school, was the birthplace of modern management education. From its inception, HHL has been committed to rigorous management instruction and research, and quickly developed an international reputation. After the peaceful East German revolution of 1989, which started in the streets of Leipzig, HHL rediscovered the entrepreneurial spirit of its founding days and was restructured as a high-performing private business school – again with full university status.

The philosophy behind all our programs is to focus on the student by offering close student-faculty interaction, in-depth business and academic experience, and at the same time developing the students’ leadership potential and networking skills.

We continue to build on our highly successful model and reputation for excellence. We update our curriculum according to the needs of global employment markets to further internationalize our expertise and keep HHL at the forefront of business education and professional training. We invite you to become part of HHL’s promising future.

The quality management of HHL is based on the schools mission and takes into account the specific culture of a rather small and very personal university. The quality cycle Plan-Do-Check-Act is the foundation for the continuous improvement of the study programs.

HHL was the first private Business School in the German-speaking region to be accredited by AACSB International in 2004. Since then, HHL was successfully reaccredited in 2009 and 2014 under the new standards. AACSB puts a special focus on the continuous improvement and mission of the school.

Following an announcement of the German Accreditation Council which was looking for innovative ways of Quality Management at Universities, HHL applied with its concept of a holistic approach of sustainable quality assurance and development. By working on combining the international with the national accreditation, HHL plays a pioneer role in Germany’s national accreditation system.

In the department of HHL Executive Education, we support your executives and managers in the expansion of their business know-how and strengthening their management skills with hands-on advanced training programs and seminars.

Our management programs and seminars are based on the latest scientific evidence, but are characterized simultaneously by a lot of practical exercises to impart your executives in workshop-like atmosphere numerous individual guidelines for managing the increasingly complex challenges.

We develop company-specific executive programs tailored according to your objectives and the needs of your executives. Our open enrollment programs and seminars on selected latest topics are each tailored to specific audiences and based on the general management approach and innovative learning content and methods of HHL.

HHL offers a unique blend of tradition and state-of-the art in business education. As the oldest business school in the German speaking countries, it was an innovation driver already in the 19th century. Today, HHL is positioned internationally as one of the leading business schools in Europe. We stand for entrepreneurship, general management and our mantra as the "personal business school”.