Entry Requirements

Please note:  the entry requirements have been amended for the WiSe 26/27 intake.

To be admitted to MIBAS, you’ll need to meet the following eligibility requirements:

• A bachelor’s degree (at least 180 ECTS) in Socioeconomics or in a comparable interdisciplinary socio-economic degree program, Business Administration, Law, Social Sciences, Sociology, Economics or Business Studies. In exceptional cases, graduates of other academic degree programs may also be admitted, provided that they can usefully build on their knowledge from their previous studies. If you’re currently completing the last semester of your bachelor’s program, you can still apply and receive conditional acceptance. See Admissions for details on applying while completing your final bachelor’s semester.
  
  
• A proof of completion of one of the following study aptitude tests:
  • Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) Focus Edition with a total score of at least 545 points
    or
  • Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) 10th Edition with a total score of at least 570 points
    or
  • Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test with a scaled score of at least 151 points in Verbal Reasoning and a scaled score of at least 156 points in Quantitative Reasoning
    or
  • Graduate Test for programs in Economics, Business and Social Sciences (GTEBS; former name: TM-WISO (Test für Masterstudiengänge in den Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften))  with an achieved test value (standard value) of at least 95 points

Please note:

• The test (GMAT, GRE or GTEBS (former name: TM-WISO)) must be taken in English. Tests that were taken in German will not be accepted as an alternative.
  
  
• The test (GMAT, GRE or GTEBS (former name: TM-WISO)) may not have been taken more than 5 years ago at the time of application to MIBAS.
  
  
• Regarding the proof of completion of GMAT:
  • Applicants for an admission to MIBAS must do both:
    
    • Send their score to us via their mba.com account
      Whether you take the exam at a test center or online, you will receive an email notification once your official score report is available in your mba.com account. You have to send your score to our school University of Hamburg (Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences) for our degree program MSc Innovation, Business, and Sustainability (MIBAS) via your mba.com account before the end of the MIBAS application period (March 31).

    • Upload their official score report in the UHH’s online application portal when applying for MIBAS
      You have to upload your official score report containing your total and section scores in the UHH’s online application portal. Since GMAC does not provide you a possibility to download a file with your official score report, you have to upload a screenshot/screengrab (image format: JPEG, PNG, GIF) in the UHH’s online application portal within the MIBAS application period from February 15 till March 31.

• Regarding the proof of completion of GRE:
  • Applicants for an admission to MIBAS must do both:
    • Send their GRE General Test scores to us via ETS
      On test day, you can designate up to four graduate institutions or fellowship sponsors to receive your scores as part of your test fee (see details here). ETS will then send an official institution score report to the score recipients you designated. You have thus to designate to our school and program so that we receive your GRE General Test scores to us via ETS before the end of the MIBAS application period (March 31): 1936 - University of Hamburg MSc Innovation, Business, and Sustainability (MIBAS).
      
      
    • Upload their GRE General Test scores in the UHH’s online application portal when applying for MIBAS
      ETS provides you a possibility to download a PDF file with your official score report. You have to upload your official score report containing your scores for Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning in the UHH’s online application portal within the MIBAS application period from February 15 till March 31.
      
      
• Regarding the proof of completion of GTEBS: 
  • Applicants for an admission to MIBAS must do both:
    

    • Send their test results to us via ITB before the end of the MIBAS application period (March 31)

      
      ITB will send a document with the results of your test to our university and program if you have agreed to this procedure with your registration (see details here). Thus, when registering, you must answer the question “Would you like your results to be sent automatically to a university or universities?” with “Yes, …” and then select our university (i.e. Universität Hamburg (MSc Innovation, Business and Sustainability (MIBAS)) under the question “To which university or universities would you like us to send your results?” Important: If you select theour university(ies) under the question “Which university or universities would you like to apply to?”, your results will not be sent automatically to us.
      
      
    • Upload their test report in the UHH’s online application portal when applying for MIBAS
      ITB provides you a possibility to download a PDF file with your test result. You have to upload your official test report containing your achieved test value (standard value) in the UHH’s online application portal within the MIBAS application period from February 15 till March 31.

  To learn how to document that you meet the requirements, see Admissions. You can also find answers to many common questions about eligibility in our FAQ. 

  Ready to apply?

  Once you’ve checked off everything on the list, there’s only one thing left to do – prepare your application! See Admissions to learn how to apply.