HSBA is privately run, so it charges tuition where public universities in most German states do not. It is funded through partner-company contributions and student fees rather than the state, and how much you pay depends on which programme and track you choose.

For the dual Bachelor's programmes, the course fee is 825 EUR per month, but the partner company you are contracted to generally covers most or all of it, so your own share is often much smaller. For the part-time Master's programmes, the fee is charged directly to the student and ranges from 750 EUR to 1,650 EUR per month.

Early-bird (10%), alumni (20%) and Global Talents (25-50%, MBA only) discounts and scholarships apply on top of the listed prices and cannot be combined.

No tuition or fee waiver removes the proof-of-funds requirement for your student visa: you still need to show about 11,904 EUR for the year in a blocked account, and non-EU Bachelor's applicants additionally need a signed study agreement with their partner company as part of their visa documents.

HSBA does not publish a single non-EU application deadline the way most public universities do. Bachelor admission is tied to securing a paid study place with one of HSBA's partner companies, so the practical deadline is whenever that company's own hiring process closes, not a date HSBA sets. Master's applications (MSc Innovation Management and the MBA) are reviewed on a rolling basis at any time of year, though HSBA recommends applying early because visa processing and, for the MBA, scholarship and Income Share Agreement funding rounds have their own earlier cut-offs.

MBA scholarship deadlines (50% award: 31 July; 25% award: 31 August) and the Master's early-bird discount deadline (31 May) are funding cut-offs, not application deadlines. Since HSBA is private and outside the state Numerus Clausus system, restricted-admission (NC) rules via hochschulstart.de do not apply; admission instead runs through the partner company's own selection process (Bachelor) or HSBA's academic interview (Master).

HSBA does not use uni-assist and has no single central application portal that covers every programme. For the dual Bachelor's programmes you apply directly to one of HSBA's 300-plus partner companies, most easily via HSBA's own Study Place Exchange; HSBA itself only checks your admission requirements after the company has agreed to take you on. For the part-time Master's programmes (MSc Innovation Management and the MBA) you apply directly to HSBA through its own online application portal.

Open the international applicants information at hsba.de

HSBA runs 4 degree programmes fully in English: the International Management and Logistics Management Bachelor's, the MSc Innovation Management (with 5 specialisation tracks: AI Transformation, Business Development, Finance, Shipping & Logistics, and Start-up), and the MBA. Two of the four are Bachelor's and two are Master's-level, so this is a more even split than at many universities, though the wider catalogue also includes German-taught Bachelor's programmes (Business Administration, Business Informatics). You can study the English-taught programmes without German, though the mandatory company phase for the Bachelor's programmes generally expects a working knowledge of German, and everyday German still helps with housing, part-time life and the authorities.

Requirements differ by degree level. For the Bachelor's programmes, a B2-equivalent level is required, evidenced by TOEFL iBT 72, IELTS Academic 5.5, or Cambridge FCE/CAE/CPE at the grades listed on HSBA's site; the exemption for an English-taught school qualification only applies if it was earned in an English-speaking country such as the UK, Ireland, the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia or South Africa. For the Master's programmes, HSBA asks for English at B2 CEFR level and accepts TOEFL, Cambridge, IELTS, PTE, DAAD certificates, or a study-abroad certificate from an English-speaking country, without publishing a single minimum score. Certificates must not be older than two years at the date you register.

The exact score is set per programme and degree level, so check your programme page before booking a test.

Both the dual Bachelor's programmes and the part-time Master's programmes begin on 1 October each year, confirmed independently on HSBA's Bachelor's and Master's application pages. HSBA runs its own block-based schedule for the practical and theoretical phases rather than the standard German public-university semester calendar, so exact lecture and semester period dates vary by programme and, for Bachelor's students, by company.

HSBA is a private, state-approved business school in central Hamburg, founded in 2004 by the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and accredited by the German Council of Science and Humanities and FIBAA. It is best known for its cooperative ("dual") education model, in which Bachelor's students combine coursework with paid, contracted work at one of more than 300 partner companies throughout their degree, and for close ties to Hamburg's shipping, logistics, trade and financial sectors.

Its campus sits centrally in Hamburg, a short walk from the Elbe, the Alster and the town hall, putting students close to the many international companies based in the metropolitan area and to potential internships and working-student roles beyond the mandatory company placement.