Kellogg-WHU

Kellogg School of Management

The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University is widely recognized as one of the finest graduate business schools in the United States.

Founded in Chicago in 1908, Kellogg pioneered the theory that business management principles can be applied to any type of organization. Kellogg is committed to maintaining its high standards of academic excellence, rigorous faculty research, curricular innovation, and social responsibility.

The Kellogg School faculty consists of more than 150 discipline-based, research-oriented scholars who bring the latest in management findings and concepts into the classroom, combining theory and case studies. Among employers, Kellogg School graduates are known for their superior leadership and interpersonal skills as well as their ability to lead and work in teams.

In surveys of executive education programs, graduates give the Kellogg School’s Executive MBA Program high marks for emphasizing team leadership, teamwork and teaching real-world management principles. Surveys of business school graduates and the companies that recruit them consistently rank the Kellogg School as one of the top international management schools.

The Portrait of the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management

The WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, a private university located in Vallendar near Koblenz, was the first school in Germany to offer a major in business administration emphasizing the strategic leadership of corporations. The school sees its main mission in the education of general managers and entrepreneurs who can master a variety of jobs. WHU is truly international. Over the past twenty years, WHU has established a worldwide, unique cooperative network with more than 150 universities from all continents. It was the first German university to receive EQUIS accreditation (1998).

The part-time Executive MBA Program, jointly offered with the Kellogg School of Management, targets executives with profound managerial experience. Bachelor's, Master’s and doctoral students can take courses in a broad and innovative range of subjects. Apart from the degree-awarding programs, WHU also offers customized executive development programs for companies from a wide range of industries. Today’s 23 academic chairs and more than 90 outside lecturers – from Germany and other countries, drawn from the realms of academia and business – are guarantors for WHU’s practice-oriented teaching, supported by independent scientific research.  WHU is known for its extensive foreign internship and faculty exchange programs. Leading newspapers and magazines rank WHU among the top German management schools, and frequently they put it on top.