Mercator School of Management

Mercator School of Management
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Established	2005
Type	Public business school
Dean	Alf Kimms
Location	Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Campus	Urban
Website	msm.uni-due.de

The Mercator School of Management (MSM) refers to the faculty of business administration of the University of Duisburg-Essen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

The Mercator School of Management is a classic business school located in Duisburg. It involves twelve chairs of different business administration disciplines. Each of the three pillars of the MSM combines four of those chairs in a research department.

Research Departments

The central research areas are “Accounting and Finance”, “Technology and Operations Management”, and “Management and Marketing”, each of which is also responsible for a specialized master program of the same name.

In addition, the mainly service-oriented chairs have been combined in the Department of “Managerial Economics”, which presents the educating foundation of the Mercator School of Management. Next to the three chairs of Economics, it includes chairs of East Asia Studies covering the areas of Japan/Korea and China, a chair of Business Education and Didactics and the fields of Management Science and Business Law.

The programs offered by the Mercator School of Management are conform to ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) guidelines to guarantee that credits earned abroad or at the MSM can easily be taken into account. The accredited Bachelor of Science in Business Administration offers A-level/Abitur graduates a first professional degree with a broad theoretical foundation.

After having earned an honor’s degree in the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (or a comparable program), students can choose from four alternative Master programs of four semesters each. The internationalized General Management Track allows students to specialize in one field from each of the three business administration departments mentioned above.

Study abroad programs

The Mercator School of Management obliges students to spend a semester abroad. Some selected partner universities:

• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Copenhagen Business School
• Hong Kong Baptist University
• Paris-Sorbonne University
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Sophia University
• American University
• Warsaw School of Economics
• Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen
• Lehigh University

External links

• Mercator School of Management Website (English)
• Mercator School of Management Website (German)