Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

The Frankfurt School of Finance & Management is a private, nationally recognized University of Economics and Business School with 2015 temporary promotion law with its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main.

• 4.1 Admission Process
• 4.2 Quality in Teaching
• 4.3 consulting activities
• 4.4 Appearance and Logo
• 4.5 Ranking
• 4.6 Known professors
• 4.7 Known graduates
• 4.8 Alumni

History

The university grew out of the Bank Academy and the School of Finance and Economy ( HfB ) on 17 January 2007. The HfB turn, was founded in 1990 as a technical college with a focus on banking and finance and transferred to an institution of higher education in 2004.

In 1957, the Bank Academy eV was founded by Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden. 1966, the club was re- founded and had regional associations of the private banking industry and the association of cooperative banks as members. The Banking Academy has developed the integrated professional training in the banking industry in Germany and sustainable early. About the training offer to the bank officer, the Bank has implemented the training academy for banking administrator who is now regarded in Germany in each credit institution as a recognized training. In the 1970s, the range was also expanded to include a management degree with the non- academic degree " graduate Bankbetriebswirt ".

Under the umbrella of the Bank Academy 1990, the School of Finance and Economy ( HfB ) was founded. In 1994, the first 35 students with a degree in business administration ( FH). The main difference of education compared to other private (technical) universities was that the economic study was designed on a way to professional practice part-time, without the study scope was even reduced.

Within the framework of the Bologna process HfB, in 2000, a Bachelor 's and Master's system. The model of professional integrated academic training was acquired in the professional integrated study for a Bachelor or Master of Science. In addition, more and more classic full-time courses were introduced, which had an international focus. 2001 involved the HfB their new campus in Frankfurt's Ostend. 2003 graduated the first master students.

November 3, 2004, the HfB was transferred to an institution of higher education. 2007, the two institutions were united under the umbrella of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Since January 2008, the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management is a non-profit that is supported by the same foundation.

Currently, the Frankfurt School has nearly 45 professors. In both the full-time as well as in service training courses, the focus is now on general business administration. While the former sole, eponymous focusing on financial services and management is still subject to all courses of study, but is now offered primarily through elective modules and specialized Master's courses. The rate of graduates of the Frankfurt School who go into industry, stood at 15%. The Frankfurt School of Finance & Management works with about 90 partner universities.

The Frankfurt School is planning to move into a new building in Frankfurt's North to 2017Vorlage: Future / in 3 years.

Organization

The management of the Frankfurt School consists of the President and Chief Executive Officer Udo Steffens and the vice president and general manager Ingolf Jungmann. The officers also belong to the Vice President Michael H. Grote ( Academic Affairs ) and Hartmut Kliemt (Research), the directors Klaus Beinke ( Head of Corporate Programs & Services) and Fatma Dirkes (Head of International Advisory Services).

The scholars of the Frankfurt School are organized into five so-called Departments. In addition to the professors and other full-time teachers, there are eleven Program Directors who are responsible for the management and for the development of study programs. You are also counted for faculty, although they form a separate team that is located to the President and not the Vice-President for Academic Affairs. Not all program directors are involved in teaching.

Academic programs

Bachelor and Master

The Frankfurt School offers six undergraduate programs, complete all of the degree of Bachelor of Science ( B.Sc.). All programs will be studying full time and include 210 ECTS credit points. With the exception of the intensive program " Business Administration" takes the study of seven semesters. Two programs are dual, that is, they combine work with study. All programs also include internships in Germany and abroad, as well as at least one semester abroad at one of the partner universities of Frankfurt School:

• Business Administration ( in English, six semester intensive program )
• International Business Administration ( in English)
• Business Administration dual
• Business Administration with a focus on auditing
• Economic computer science (dual program )
• Management, Philosophy & Economics

In the dual degree programs, the Frankfurt School cooperates with major banks such as Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, KfW, Deka Bank, DZ Bank and Postbank and with other companies such as Deutsche Telekom. The cooperation partners are the jobs available. In rare cases, usually 25, 100 % - In addition to their salary by their employers, the students get a partial refund of tuition fees.

The tuition fees in the bachelor programs amounted to € 6,200 per semester, in an intensive program " Business Administration" € 7440 per semester (as baseline 2013).

The Frankfurt School also offers nine master's programs and awards the academic degree Master of Science ( M.Sc. ), Master of Arts ( MA ), Master of Business Administration ( MBA) and Master of Laws ( LL.M.):

• Master in Auditing
• Master of Finance
• Master of International Business
• Master in Management
• Master of Quantitative Finance
• Master in Risk Management & Regulation
• Executive Master of Business Administration
• MBA in International Health Care Management
• Master of Mergers & Acquisitions

Limited time promotion law

The Frankfurt School has a doctoral program, the rer with the academic degree Dr. since 2005. pol. concludes. The right to award doctorates awarded was limited until 31 December 2010, the date has been extended once for five years. The promotion of the right private school is not without controversy. So remarked the Science in a statement on accreditation, the Frankfurt School had " initiated very late energetic steps to underpin the their temporary awarded doctoral degrees through adequate research achievements. " And took the limited conferred doctorate granting expressly approved by the pronounced ten-year accreditation from. According to Science, the Frankfurt School has failed to establish an institutional and infrastructural conditions for a research environment. Therefore, he sees " at present no sufficient scientific basis to recommend a Entfristung or further extension of the so far limited conferred doctorate law for the Frankfurt School. " Following allegations of plagiarism the first graduates, who received his doctorate at the Frankfurt School in 2007, the doctoral degree was revoked.

Part-time programs

• Bankfachwirt (IHK ) / ( FS)
• Bankbetriebswirt (FS )
• Graduate Bankbetriebswirt (FS )
• Investment Trade (IHK ) / ( FS)
• Certified Corporate Treasurer VDT

In addition, specialized programs, such as Ship Financing, Finance Journalism etc. are offered.

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Approval procedures

For approval, the Frankfurt School performs a two-stage application process. On the written application general business knowledge and foreign language skills in English carried out an assessment center, in the analytic and logical skills, team skills, are reviewed.

The assessment center for the Bachelor's programs consists of several written tests and a group exercise. In addition, candidates will be interviewed by two people. Interviewers are usually a representative of the institution - for example, a professor, or one of the program directors - and a representative of a company, with the works, the Frankfurt School.

Quality of teaching

Classes are held in small groups. For the undergraduate programs, the maximum number of participants per course is located at 40, in the language courses generally at 15, for their lecturers, the Frankfurt School offers its own didactic training.

All courses will be evaluated by the students. Also learning objectives are defined for the individual study programs, ie skills and abilities that students should have acquired by the end of their studies. Thus, the university not only checks their students, but also their own teaching performance. For the quality management has its own employees.

Consulting activities

In addition to the training program, which represents the core of the Frankfurt School, she has been active in international consulting and manages a variety of projects worldwide. The main focus can be the Areas of the Frankfurt School in the topics of Development Finance, Microfinance, Housing and Consulting divided.

Appearance and logo

The logo is an artificial Signet, which can be in addition to echoes of currency signs dollar, euro, yen and pound the mathematical- scientific character for equal / unequal recognize and infinite. The colors were originally dark blue ( the color of the Banking Academy ) and yellow-orange (formerly HfB ).

Through the Frankfurt communications agency Maleki Group an opposition against the trademark with the attempt was on 30 March 2007 filed, the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management to use the parts of the name "Frankfurt" and " Finance", the logo and the color combination blue / yellow to prohibit.

Before the Landgericht Frankfurt am Main was set out in a public conciliation hearing by the presiding judge Kästner on 10 November 2009 that a character similarity is not given. Regarding the color combination was advised for a comparison in which the Frankfurt School waived the yellow tones in the logo. The Frankfurt School uses since August 30, 2010 in the color design of the logo, the combination blue / white.

Ranking

The magazine Business Week has named the Frankfurt School in 2012 and 2013 according to a survey of 500 human resource managers to become the sixth best Business School in Germany. Your Master of Finance was also the only program of a German university, which was performed in 2012 in the Financial Times ranking. In the strongest research business administration faculties Handelsblatt ranking the Frankfurt School finished 2012 ranked 8th among German universities.

In the CHE ranking, the Frankfurt School in 2012/13, together with the University of Mannheim, Munich Technical University, EBS and WHU the best rating in the category "Bachelor (Uni) Business Administration ".

Well-known professors

• Afshin Gandjour, Health Management
• Carsten Herrmann- Pillath ( Economics)
• Luise Hölscher ( Accounting )
• Horst Löchel, ( Economics)
• Klaus -Peter Müller, Chairman of the Supervisory Board and former Chairman of the Board, Commerzbank AG
• Thorsten Polleit, chief economist of the Degussa gold trading

Known graduates

• Axel Frein, CEO Valovis Commercial Bank
• Rainer Fuhrmann, CEO of DZ BANK Polska
• Jochen Klösges, Board Commerzbank
• Stefan Müller, Parliamentary Secretary of the CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag
• Ulrich Sieber, CEO, Commerzbank
• Klaus Stöttner, CSU, Member of the Bavarian Parliament

Alumni

Since its founding approximately 100,000 graduates have made their degree in vocational training. In the academic programs there are currently over 1,500 alumni from the diploma, bachelor 's and master's degree programs and the doctoral program. The Frankfurt School has two alumni associations for historical reasons, since after the merger of Bank Academy and HfB the two alumni associations remained independent.

• Frankfurt School Alumni Association ( formerly HfB Alumni Association): Association of graduates of academic programs
• Frankfurt School of Finance & Management Banking Academy Alumni Association: Association of graduates of vocational training programs ( Bankfachwirt, Bankbetriebswirt, Management Studies )