About Strategic Management & Consulting (m.a.) in CBS - Cologne Business School

Master`s in Consulting: Specialised studies for management consulting

The Consulting master`s programme prepares you optimally for a working life as a consultant. Companies and other organisations from all industries and orientations need support with their various challenges, such as a structural reorientation or the integration of a new HR software. This is provided by a team of external or internal consultants who have both relevant expertise and the ability to develop sound concepts through to implementation.

Would you like to be systematically prepared for your career start as a consultant in an all-embracing university education? In our German-language master’s degree programme “Strategic Management & Consulting” in Cologne, you will learn how the individual phases of the consulting process are carried out and how to use central instruments of management consulting in a customer-oriented manner. With the help of best-practice examples, you will learn in the Consulting master`s programme how innovative project management approaches are developed.

Market overview and methods in the Consulting master`s programme

In the fourth semester you will complete your master’s thesis and have the opportunity to write it directly as part of a project at a management consultancy. In this way you will make your first important business contacts and get to know the daily routine of a consultant. Our Career Service will be happy to assist you in selecting a suitable company. Instead, you would like to improve your foreign language skills and experience the global market first-hand? You can of course also write your master’s thesis during a semester abroad.

Important business skills for the consulting industry

In addition to outstanding professional capabilities, consultants should possess a range of business skills which are an essential prerequisite for a career in management consulting. This includes good communication and organisational skills as well as social skills such as empathy and teamwork. In the Consulting master`s your business skills are sharpened in interdisciplinary courses such as:

• Creative thinking and innovation
• Team & self management
• Leadership behaviour
• various foreign language courses

Our trainings enable you to impress employers with innovative approaches and secure team leadership later in your career.

Your career prospects with a master`s in Consulting

After completing a master’s degree in “Strategic Management & Consulting”, your career prospects are excellent. Many graduates succeed in starting their careers in the consulting industry at one of the top consulting companies. The highly competitive working environment offers career starters the opportunity to move up quickly and gain valuable experience. Alternatively, with a master`s in Consulting you have these options, among others:

• Consulting in one of the major management consultancies and in or in specialised boutique consultancies
• Challenging tasks in in-house consulting and corporate development departments of corporations
• Academic career with a doctorate at CBS

Academic qualification equivalents

• Bachelor's degree from a university or technical college

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS     :   6.5
• TOEFL   :   92

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