Handelshochschule Leipzig

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Handelshochschule Leipzig (HHL) is a private business school in the German state of Saxony. Also known as the Leipzig Graduate School of Management, it is one of the world's oldest business schools, having been established in 1898. The school has been under private management since 1992.

It was ranked as Germany's best business school by "karriere" magazine in May 2006 and consistently ranks in the German top 3 in other publications. In April 2004, the HHL was the first private business school in Germany accredited by the AACSB. [http://www.hhl.de/index.php?id=1214]

Teaching and research at HHL is conducted almost entirely in English whith some country-specific courses are held in German. The school awards postgraduate degrees:
*The 12-15 month master of business administration in International Management degree, through full- or part-time study.
*The 18-month master of science degree in management.
*The Diplom Kaufmann. The Diploma program admits those who have passed the Vordiplom, a foundation degree, or undergraduate degrees. In concurrence with the European wide Bologna process striving for harmonization of educational degrees, the last diploma students will graduate in 2010.
*A doctorate in business.

The school has an executive education centre, founded in co-operation with INSEAD. Initially named the INSEAD Zentrum Leipzig (IZL) it is now called HHL Executive Education.

HHL offers exchange programs with over 100 international partners, including the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and the business school of Tulane University. It has dual degree programmes with Universidad de Talca (Chile), Universidad de Chile (Chile), Tongji University (China), Universidad EAFIT (Colombia), INCAE (Costa Rica), Universidad del Pacifico (Ecuador), ESC Montpellier; ESC Toulouse; ISC Paris; ESCI Fontainebleau (France), MDI (India), KDI School (South Korea), Norwegian School of Management (Norway), esan (Peru), EADA (Spain), Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand), and Florida International University (USA).

External links

* [http://www.hhl.de Handelshochschule Leipzig]
* [http://www.unternehmer-hochschule.de Private blog about the entrepreneurship activities at HHL]