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Executive MBA (EMBA)

Part-time for managers

You are one of the top performers in the company. As part of your career planning, you are aiming for a degree: a recognized Executive MBA in General Management. In German or English. In addition to your professional activity or full-time.

Theory and practice

This EMBA Executive MBA program deepens your management skills and gives you a double degree:

  • Nach dem 1. Semester (6 Monate Vollzeit oder 12 Monate bei beruflicher Tätigkeit) den Abschluss als «SGBS Certified Executive Management Expert» der St. Gallen Business School.
  • After the 2nd semester (a further 6 months full-time/12 months with professional activity) you will graduate as an “Executive Master of Business Administration”, General Management, from the SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences (SRH).

The cooperation between SGBS St. Gallen Business School and SRH Berlin will take you twice as far in your career: you will earn the academic title EMBA Executive Master and you will document that you can apply modern management knowledge in practice.

Direct entry: Registration for the EMBA

Graduation

Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA)

Credit Points

60 ECTS

Regelstudiendauer

1 year at SGBS and 2 semesters at SRH

Start of studies

see “Start dates” for the EMBA program

Admission requirements

  • University or university of applied sciences degree (Bachelor’s degree with 210 ECTS; alternatively Bachelor’s degree with 180 ECTS + recognition of additional achievements)
  • At least 5 years of professional experience in management
  • Full-time option: Proof of necessary English language skills

Sprachen

In German and English

Präsenz am Studienort

  • Distribution of attendance days for the part-time variant:
    approx. 28 days at St. Gallen Business School,
    approx. 8 days in Berlin

Presence at the place of study

  • Part 1 at SGBS St. Gallen
  • Part 2 at SRH Berlin
Contents, objectives and course of study

The cooperation between SGBS St. Gallen Business School and SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences makes it possible to tailor this Executive MBA precisely to the participants’ future careers.

The “SGBS Certified Executive Management Expert St. Gallen” qualification is acquired in the first semester. This certifies the acquisition of precisely those skills that are required with regard to one’s own career goal. The motto is: “Learn what is really useful”. Examinations by SRH.

In the second semester, students write their Master’s thesis at SRH, complete 2 block courses of 3 days attendance each in Berlin, take part in various online live and e-learning events, complete self-study independent of location and take the examinations at SRH.

Module overview (subject to change)

  • Strategic Management
  • Organisational Behaviour
  • Financing & Controlling
  • Data & Digitalisization
  • Marketing Management
  • Process & quality management
  • Team & Collaboration
  • Elective modules
  • Applied practical object
  • Master Thesis (incl. Master Seminar)
Application and admission requirements

Applicants qualify for a study place as follows:

  • University degree (Bachelor with 210 ECTS; alternatively Bachelor with 180 ECTS + recognition of additional achievements) plus at least 5 years of professional experience
  • Successfully completed selection procedure
  • In the full-time variant: Proof of the required English language skills

International applicants with a foreign school-leaving certificate are individually assessed on the basis of their certificates to determine whether they meet the admission requirements and language skills.

Start dates

The start of your studies (St. Gallen semester) begins with a 2-day block course in St. Gallen.

Start Dates 2025
24. – 27. Feb. 2025
12. – 15. June 2025
22. – 25. Sep. 2025
08. – 11. Dec. 2025

The 2nd semester (SRH semester) begins either in October (fall semester) or in April (summer semester).

Degrees and fees

Successful graduates receive two degrees:

  • SGBS Certified Executive Management Expert St. Gallen
  • Executive Master of Business Administration – General Management of SRH

Tuition fee: CHF 59,000 plus VAT.

Payment in 5 installments.

Register to study

Please send us the completed Registration form.

We will then send you the application documents together with a provisional registration note. The application documents are completed by you and returned to us, and the Admissions Office checks whether the admission requirements are met.

If you meet the admission requirements, you will receive a definitive confirmation of registration from St. Gallen Business School within 5 – 15 days, an invitation to enroll at SRH Berlin and all information about the start and the first semester of your studies in St. Gallen.

The first installment of the tuition fee must be paid no later than 4 weeks before the start of the course.