Goethe Business School

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Goethe Business School. An attractive location. A unique approach. Goethe Business School (GBS) offers executives and young professionals an exclusive platform for a broad portfolio of education and training programs at Goethe University – at the heart of Europe's financial center, Frankfurt is Main. Founded in 2004, GBS is closely connected to the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.
The GBS learning approach is truly unique and offers a custom-tailored type of education based on the combination of insights of leading academics, practical content, and relevant soft skills. The attractive study facilities of the House of Finance at one of the most modern university campuses in Europe enables participants to enhance their professional and personal skills further. All programs are taught by renowned academics with practical experience in collaboration with a continuously growing network of partners, offering a wide range of competencies in different areas of expertise.
Besides traditional research and teaching, further education is gaining more and more critical for the academic world. The mission of Goethe University as a citizens' university is to promote knowledge transfer and to enable life-long learning. Following this mission, Goethe Business School is the unique place at Goethe University that fuels professional and personal development.
GBS part-time master programs offer young professionals the possibility to further enhance their professional and personal development in a goal-oriented way, thereby implementing the acquired knowledge in their professional practice environment. Through an interdisciplinary approach and the possibility to incorporate an individual focus, students succeed in achieving an academically founded and practice-oriented advanced education.
Within the framework of open courses and training programs, which can be booked individually and as a separate program, every professional interested in this particular academic area (with or without student status) can gain new academic knowledge or refresh existing knowledge on the subject.
Customized programs are the focus of work within the GBS Executive Education department. The realization of the customized program takes place in close collaboration with the corporate client. It is based on the foundation of agreed learning objectives in the identified areas of competencies. The China Executive Education Center (CEEC) has a specific geographical focus and has successfully offered senior managers from the Chinese financial sector interdisciplinary educational training programs on management themes for many years, allowing Chinese and European financial leaders to connect and build a network.
Goethe University is a strongly research-oriented university at the heart of Europe's financial center Frankfurt am Main. Lively, urban, and open to the world, the university enjoys administrative autonomy and a unique kind of independence. Founded in 1914 as the first foundation university in Germany, privately funded by Frankfurt's citizens, Goethe University has grown into the third-largest university in Germany, with more than 45.000 students, 16 research departments, and 650 professorships.
Since the beginning of the new century, Goethe University is engaged in an extraordinarily dynamic changing process. Marked among others by quality initiatives in research and education, strengthened cooperation with external partners, and numerous new building developments, including the Science City Riedberg and the new Campus Westend for humanities and social sciences, where GBS hat its home within the House of Finance. As "Workshop of Modernity', Goethe University has defined the benchmark in humanities and social sciences. Of particular importance are the achievements of the so-called 'Frankfurt School.'
Current flagship projects are the three Clusters of Excellence, which have been accomplished within the Initiative of Excellence framework in natural science, human science, and humanities. As part of the LOEWE initiative, Goethe University, together with its partners, managed to convince four centers and seven focus areas. As a result, 55 endowed and guest professorships have been realized, further enhancing Goethe University's leading position in Germany.

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