Admission Requirements

To apply as a doctoral student, applicants need to obtain a promise of doctoral supervision by a senior professor of EBS Business School and then apply to the Doctorates Committee via the Office for Doctoral Studies, who votes on the admission of new applicants.

As a minimum requirement, applicants need to have a master degree (with a cumulated minimum of 300 ECTS in their bachelor and master) or a "Diplomkauffrau/-mann" with a GPA of 2.5 or higher (“Prädikatsexamen”). In the case of international degrees, additional three months processing time may be required. Accordingly, documents need to be submitted well in advance. In addition the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is required of all applicants.

For more detailed information regarding the application process and the doctoral studies at EBS in general, please refer to the Information Leaflet “Doctoral Studies”. Your application should be sent to the Office for Doctoral Studies by the 15th of November for enrolment on the 1st of January of the following year, or by the 15th of June for enrolment by the 1st August of the same year.