The University of Cologne (UoC) was founded in 1388 and is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Europe. With more than 49.000 students and six faculties covering a broad spectrum of disciplines, the UoC is the third largest university in Germany. Established in 2015, the University of Cologne Business School is a business school that unites all of the University’s management development expertise. The University of Cologne has been awarded “university of excellence” status by the German government, making it the perfect choice for a management training programme. The Business School is attached to the University’s Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences. With around 10,000 students and more than one hundred professors, the Faculty is one of the largest and most renowned faculties of its kind in Europe. Its students benefit from an extensive network of more than 120 partner higher education institutions around the world, numerous national and international companies and a university-wide alumni club with over 4,000 members. The University of Cologne Business School offers you first-class, comprehensive management development programmes at an easily accessible location right at the heart of Europe. Due to the favourable geographical location in the historical city, the Business School of the University of Cologne is ideally accessible from Aachen, Bonn or Düsseldorf. Thanks to the Cologne-Rhein/Main rapid transit route and ICE, Cologne lies only an hour away from the economic metropolis Frankfurt am Main. The Business School brings together the management development expertise of the University of Cologne to create excellent academic programmes that provide you with multiple benefits. The Business School runs Executive MBA programmes in English plus a range of diploma courses, open courses and customised courses for individuals or businesses, held at the campus in Cologne.