A typical Goethe University Frankfurt MiM cohort is around 42 students .
| Class size | 42 |
|---|---|
| International | 80% |
Frequently asked questions
Is the Goethe M.Sc. Management Science taught in English, and is it really a Master in Management?
Yes on both counts. The programme — formerly called International Management — is taught in English, with students permitted to take up to 24 ECTS (about four modules) in German if they wish. Despite the 'Management Science' name it is a flexible general-management master, not a narrowly quantitative one: aside from a single management module and an ethics module there are no mandatory courses, and you build the 120-ECTS degree from electives, two seminars and a thesis across four concentration fields — Finance, Accounting, Information Management and Marketing Analytics. It sits in the same Master-in-Management family as the other European programmes we profile.
What makes Goethe University Frankfurt distinctive for a management master?
Two things: it is tuition-free, and it sits in Frankfurt — continental Europe's banking capital and the home of the European Central Bank and the Deutsche Bundesbank. The Faculty of Economics and Business is built around finance and economics (its Finance concentration alone spans roughly 15 chairs), so a student aiming at banking, asset management, consulting or corporate finance studies in the city where those employers are concentrated, with the elective freedom to weight the degree heavily toward Finance. The cohort is small (about 42), roughly 80% international and academically selective, so it is a focused, globally-mixed class rather than a large lecture programme.
When is the Goethe M.Sc. Management Science application deadline?
Goethe runs one autumn (winter-semester) intake, with the application window opening around 15 January and closing around 15 May each year. There is no separate EU / non-EU deadline, but applicants from China, Vietnam and India also need an APS certificate, which takes time, so they should start early. The school notifies its strongest applicants within four to six weeks and the rest in July. Because the cohort is small and selective, apply early in the window, and confirm the exact current-cycle dates on Goethe's own admissions page.
Sources
- Goethe University Frankfurt — M.Sc. Management Science (programme overview: English-taught, four semesters, ~80% international, cohort limited to ~42) ↗ — Goethe University Frankfurt, Faculty of Economics and Business
- Goethe University Frankfurt — M.Sc. Management Science: Application (degree requirements, English thresholds, GMAT/GRE optional, APS; window re-read verbatim 1 Sep 2026: "You can apply for the master's program from January 15 until May 15 (application for the first semester)", early applicants notified within four to six weeks and the remainder in July) ↗ — Goethe University Frankfurt, Faculty of Economics and Business
- Goethe University Frankfurt — M.Sc. Management Science: Programme content (120 ECTS structure; Accounting / Finance / Information Management / Marketing Analytics concentrations; up to 24 ECTS in German) ↗ — Goethe University Frankfurt, Faculty of Economics and Business
- Goethe University Frankfurt — M.Sc. Management Science: FAQ (no tuition fees for EU and non-EU master's students; ~€334 per-semester contribution incl. transit pass) ↗ — Goethe University Frankfurt, Faculty of Economics and Business
- Goethe University Frankfurt — Wikipedia (founded 1914, public research university in Frankfurt am Main, ~42,000 students, finance-and-economics focus) — corroborating context ↗ — Wikipedia
- Goethe University Frankfurt — Rückmeldung und Semesterbeitrag (authoritative central page; winter semester 2026/2027 Semesterbeitrag 408,28 EUR, itemised: Deutschland-Semester-Ticket 226,80 · Studierendenwerk 106,50 · Verwaltungskostenbeitrag 50,00 ("gesetzlich festgelegt, unverändert seit 2004") · AStA-Studierendenschaft 17,10 · Palmengarten-Ticket 1,10 · Sozial-/Kulturticket 2,20 · Campus-Bike 2,98 · AStA-Härtefonds 1,60) ↗ — Goethe University Frankfurt
- Goethe University Frankfurt — M.Sc. Management Science: selection process. INTERVIEW CHECKED 2026-09-03: admission is a published weighted score — average bachelor grade 51%, ECTS in quantitative-methods modules 39%, international experience 4%, GMAT/GRE verbal 3% and quantitative 3% — after which "all applicants are ranked according to their admission score. The Selection Committee reviews the ranking list and decides about the threshold score." No interview or oral stage exists in the procedure. SELECTION CHECKED 2026-09-04: re-read for the per-criterion POINT TABLES behind those weights, which the 09-03 read did not capture. Bachelor's grade: 1,0-1,4 = 10 points, 1,5-1,7 = 9, 1,8-1,9 = 8, 2,0-2,1 = 7, 2,2-2,3 = 6, 2,4-2,5 = 5, 2,6-2,7 = 4, 2,8-2,9 = 3, 3,0-3,1 = 2, >=3,2 = 1, with "only the first digit after the decimal point" counted and the rest truncated, foreign grades converted by uni-assist under the modified Bavarian formula. Quantitative ECTS: >=30 = 10 points, 25-29 = 9, 22-24 = 8, 19-21 = 7, 16-18 = 6, 13-15 = 5, 10-12 = 4, 7-9 = 3, 4-6 = 2, <=3 = 1 — counting only modules "in which quantitative methods are taught and not modules in which they are solely applied", i.e. maths/analysis/algebra, statistics/stochastics, econometrics, quantitative methods, operations research, time-series analysis, data science and quantitative market research, and explicitly NOT micro/macroeconomics, finance/accounting, decision theory, business informatics, general marketing or operations management; only modules completed within the bachelor's count. GMAT/GRE verbal and quantitative sections scored independently on percentile: 91-100 = 10 points, 81-90 = 9, 71-80 = 8, 61-70 = 7, 56-60 = 6, 50-55 = 5, below the 50th = 0. International experience, max 10: complete studies abroad 5, each semester abroad 2 (max 4, double degrees counting as 4), internship or work abroad of at least two months 2, an additional B2-certified language (French, Spanish, or German if not native) 1, certificate no older than five years at the 15 May deadline. SCOPE NOTE: this page is headed and introduced as the selection process for the M.Sc. Management Science, but its international-experience paragraph reads "for the master in International Management, we aim to select students who..." — Goethe's own copy from a sibling programme, not a scope change; the tables above are the ones this page publishes for Management Science ↗ — Goethe University Frankfurt
- Goethe University Frankfurt — M.Sc. Management Science: Application, English proficiency section. ENGLISH EVIDENCE CHECKED 2026-09-05: accepted qualifications are 'TOEFL ibT: 95', 'IELTS Academic: 7.0', 'UNIcert: level 3' and 'Cambridge Advanced: C1' (TOEFL institution code B073; GMAT/GRE are stated not to be English proficiency tests), and 'We accept language certificates which are maximum five years old.' The exemption is a single conjoined criterion — a "Bachelor's degree from an institution with English as the sole language of instruction and from a majority English speaking country" — with the country list delegated to the UK Visas and Immigration Department's own page. ↗ — Goethe University Frankfurt