MBA Programmes in Austria 2025

The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a program taught fully in English designed especially for industry professionals wanting to advance their careers. The program is taught in blocked seminars, two to four days on campus or online once a month. The program concentrates on strategic analysis and planning, interdisciplinary skills, value-based management, and critical thinking. Students will advance their knowledge in core business disciplines including human resource management, organizational behavior, accounting and finance, marketing and operations, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Out-of-the-box thinking challenges existing limits and thought patterns.

In this Executive MBA program, you will acquire all the tools to initiate and implement dynamic innovation as well as start-up projects in an entrepreneurial and cooperative manner. You can analyze technology paths and identify innovation opportunities at an early stage. You are capable of developing innovative strategies in order to unfold this potential and communicate creative solutions at all levels. With that, you set a milestone for defining a future-proof innovation concept and business model.

Take advantage of the Executive MBA Digital Transformation & Data Science is to learn the tools and strategies needed to master digital challenges, and transform your business.

The Executive MBA Strategic Project Management provides executives with up-to-date tools and key expertise to optimize their project management - from commencement to a successful conclusion. From project costing and organizational design to risk management and project discontinuities, the expert faculty shares deep insights, tested methodologies and helps develop the polished social skills that project and process managers need to deliver quality, sustainable results and to lead their teams to success.

Companies that make a difference in their markets have managed ways to effectively let marketing and sales join forces to serve their customers and delight them. Our cutting-edge program allows participants to enhance their knowledge and skills to master marketing challenges and to reap the benefits through sales excellence. The Executive MBA Marketing & Sales provides participants with the latest immediately applicable expertise and key tools to enable them to plan and implement effective marketing and to reap real benefits in terms of increased sales.

The Executive MBA Energy Management combines hands-on leadership with the latest management expertise in key markets (renewable, oil, gas, nuclear).

The Executive MBA Finance is a cutting-edge program providing theoretical expertise, analytical know-how, and the practical management tools to enable executives to succeed in the dynamic, globalized field of finance. The curriculum has been specifically designed around the implementation of immediately applicable content and is taught by an international faculty of top experts from the finance sector. This Executive MBA will expand your expertise as well as hone both your financial intuition and the necessary flexibility to react quickly and appropriately to future evolution in this vital sector. The broad range of content allows graduates to take up various positions in finance - an asset to their employer and a vital career benefit.

In an accelerating, technology-driven, global economy, a company’s ability to evolve and to innovate constantly, to seize opportunities and respond to developments no longer constitutes a strategic advantage. It is now a business requirement. The Executive MBA Entrepreneurship & Innovation communicates those skills and techniques behind entrepreneurial thought and action, imparting expertise and thought processes that enable managers and entrepreneurs to make crucial decisions and compete successfully.

This part-time Executive MBA with Specialization Options is structured into two tiers, the business core and specialization options, ranging from Digital Transformation & Data Science, Finance, Strategic Marketing & Sales, Energy Management, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Strategic Project Management, to Public Auditing.

WU's Executive MBA Bucharest is ranked #1 in Romania, boasting triple accreditation with AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System), and AMBA (Association of MBAs). Students benefit from the outstanding reputation of our parent institution, WU Vienna, as well as its 200 or more international partner universities, NGOs, corporations, and career networks.

The Global Executive MBA is an internationally oriented, cutting-edge Executive MBA program providing a unique 360° global vision with expert insights into management best practices in developed and emerging markets on three continents. With an international faculty comprised of many of the finest minds in business and economics, this highly accredited program is offered by a powerful partnership of two of the world’s most prestigious, ranked business schools - the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and the WU Executive Academy of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). The Global Executive MBA is repeatedly ranked as one of the top programs in the Financial Times Executive MBA Rankings and is accredited by the most world’s renowned accreditations AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS.

In the MBA – Social Management distance learning course, students receive in-depth knowledge in the areas of social work, social policy and social planning. They also get to know the central legal norms that form the framework for social management. Trends in European integration as well as roles, interactions and economic control options of the system partners with a focus on Austria, Germany and Switzerland are conveyed. Students acquire management skills for managers in the social sector and deal with trends and specifics of the NPO sector, ethical concepts and their application in social work as well as intercultural aspects and special challenges such as crisis management and supervision. In this distance learning course, students work on current developments in the areas of digitization and data management in social management, medical and nursing developments, control and financing and other global developments affecting social work.

The MBA - Digital Marketing and Management course provides students with deeper knowledge and understanding of the theoretical foundations and current developments in the field of digitization in marketing. The students get to know digital business models as well as agile marketing and management concepts, to examine them and to discuss them critically. One focus is on the instruments of digital communication and price policy, their application and evaluation. The students deal with concepts for smart products and services, the agile development of innovations and digital selling strategies and learn to critically assess these concepts, their application in practice and their effects. Digitization as a challenge for companies is also highlighted, as are methods and processes in the field of online research, including key topics such as big data, predictive analytics and customer insights, taking economic and ethical aspects into account.

With the Flexible MBA, our students complete a master's degree that is individually tailored to them. In addition to the four compulsory modules, which convey business and management know-how, and the obligatory master's thesis, five elective modules can be taken from the various modules, which correspond to professional or personal interests. The specification modules of the MBA courses at Middlesex University / KMU Akademie are usually located in a specific subject area. With the flexible MBA course, on the other hand, modules can be chosen that are completely different in terms of subject. This offers students the opportunity to devote themselves to those topics and focal points that are important for their personal or professional development.

The Postgraduate School of the Medical University of Graz has been offering this master’s course since 2013 and is aimed at existing managers from the entire healthcare system and cooperating stakeholders who want to deepen their know-how or are preparing for such a career. It was redesigned in 2017 on the basis of national and international developments and is still based on the four proven pillars - general management, hospital management, public health, and leadership - supplemented by especially application-oriented aspects and a science module based on the master's thesis and other publications prepared.