Student review [#12152] for Business Management
at University of Mannheim

I have taken the masters in Management in the university of Mannheim, so I won’t be able to generalize for other fields. Within the MMM course, I felt like even though the learning method depends on the area you choose to focus on (e.g. I have focused on Marketing related subjects), the overall idea is about focusing on theory, research and memorizing. Coming from a different country, I found its educational system refreshing and challenging for me. I was able to learn about management from a different scope, and focused on areas in which my home country university wouldn’t. However, I have found it rather disappointing the fact that most of grades depend solely on an exam, which has a high time pressure – no time to think, most of the time you succeed by memorizing how to solve exercises. In this way, it does not support the development of critical thinking, rather tests who can memorize best. Yet, there are courses with group projects, case studies and projects directly connected with companies, where you can definitely learn a lot. You surely need to study a lot to keep good grades there, but it is a good challenge. Another positive side to it is the fact that you build your course of studies and timetable as you wish – overall, there are only 5 mandatory courses. I would recommend you this university if you want to go to Germany or you plan to work there in the future; if you want to focus on research; if you want exams that value for 100% of the grade and have free time during the semester. However, when not and if you have a good GPA and all other documents required, there may be better options for you.