Unlike a public German university, MBS charges full tuition at every level, for EU and non-EU students alike. The Full-Time MBA costs 47,000 EUR for the whole 12 to 15-month programme, and MBS's other programmes range from the Part-Time MBA up to the two-country ESSEC & MANNHEIM and MANNHEIM & TONGJI Executive MBAs, which run considerably higher.

Alongside the programme fee, students are enrolled at the University of Mannheim for the duration of their degree and pay that university's semester contribution: 194 EUR for winter 2026/27, made up of an administrative fee, the Studierendenwerk contribution and the student body fee.

No tuition-free status here does not remove the proof-of-funds requirement either. For the student visa you still need to show about 11,904 EUR for the year, usually in a blocked account, and that money has to be transferred months before the semester starts.

MBS runs rolling admissions with early-bird rounds rather than a single non-EU deadline, but the final cut-off for the Full-Time MBA's September 2026 intake depends on what an applicant needs before the programme starts, and international applicants needing a visa face an earlier final deadline than applicants who do not.

MBS admission is by MBS's own committee, not a numerus clausus process, so restricted-admission deadlines don't apply here.

Open the Mannheim Full-Time MBA admissions page.

MBS teaches all 8 of its postgraduate programmes fully in English: the Full-Time and Part-Time MBA, three Executive MBA tracks, and three specialised Master's programmes in accounting and taxation, management analytics and AI, and sustainable business and technology. Every one of them is a postgraduate qualification. MBS itself offers no Bachelor's degree; a prospective Bachelor's student applies directly to the University of Mannheim's own Bachelor's programme in Business Administration instead, which is a separate application outside MBS. You can study any MBS programme without German, though everyday German still helps with housing, part-time work and the authorities.

IELTS Academic and TOEFL iBT are the standard for the Full-Time MBA, with a GMAT or GRE score also expected for every MBA and EMBA track. A higher GMAT/GRE score earns a small tuition discount.

Exact scores and whether GMAT/GRE is required or only recommended can vary by programme, so check your specific programme page before booking a test.

MBS programmes do not run on the standard German two-semester calendar. The Full-Time MBA has a single annual intake that begins in September, so there is no separate winter or summer lecture period to plan around for that programme. Work backwards from the September start rather than a semester date, and allow time before that for city registration, a bank account and a room.

Mannheim Business School is the umbrella organisation for management education at the University of Mannheim, founded in 2005 when the university bundled its MBA and executive education activity into a single non-profit Ltd (gGmbH), owned by the University of Mannheim and the Prechel Foundation. It is the only German business school triple-accredited by AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA, and its academic responsibility and degree-awarding power sit with the professors of the University of Mannheim's Business School, a public university, rather than with MBS itself.

The campus sits inside Mannheim Palace in the city centre, close to the Rhine-Neckar region's dense concentration of multinational employers, which is why MBS's programmes lean heavily on company projects, corporate partnerships and executive-track cohorts rather than a general undergraduate population. Mannheim sits within reach of Heidelberg, Frankfurt and the wider Rhine-Neckar economic region.