HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management’s history and tradition is a story of pioneering success that goes back to the 19th century. Leipzig’s entrepreneurs realized the need of educating business people to prepare them for the upcoming changes and challenges in a world becoming more globalized with its international trade. The foundation of Handelshochschule Leipzig in 1898 marks the birthplace of management education and is the first business administration faculty in German speaking countries. Since those early days, the “honorable merchant” is recognized in the school’s emblem. Eugen Schmalenbach is one of the Handelshochschule first and most prominent alumni, also well known as the founder of today’s business administration as an academic field in science and research.
Today, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management is a prestigious university with doctoral and habilitation rights and was the first private German Business School with AACSB accreditation. In addition, with more than 530 startups founded by HHL Alumni, our business school is the top address for entrepreneurship in Germany. 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.
Students voted: HHL is the most popular business school and Germany’s top university for management education with a tight knit community of 800 students, 55 nationalities and 4,000 active alumni. We are a hub for entrepreneurship in Germany, with over 530 startups founded and more than 30,000 jobs created by HHL alumni.
Everything we stand for, and everything we do, is designed to master your personal and professional future. Every journey starts with a single first step. Get prepared with HHL at your side. Discover HHL’s Master and MBA programs. In the department of HHL Executive Education, we support your executives and managers with the expansion of their business expertise and with strengthening their management skills by offering hands on advanced training programs and seminars. Our executive management programs and seminars are based on the latest scientific findings and are characterized by a vast amount of practical exercises to impart your executives in a workshop like atmosphere. This will equip them with numerous individual action approaches for managing increasingly complex challenges.
