The Frankfurt School of Finance & Management is a state-accredited private university in Frankfurt

Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...

, Hesse

Hesse

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. The university is also accredited by Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA).

History

The Frankfurt School of Finance & Management was founded 1957 as (Banking Institute). The university was founded in 1989 as the (HfB) and was given authorization to award doctoral degrees on 3 November 2004. On 17 January 2007 the academic-branch HfB and the executive education-branch were merged under the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. The FS has full degree awarding power and is state recognized.

Currently there are approx. 1200 students and 35 full-time professors as well as more than 1,800 lecturers.

The Frankfurt School of Finance & Management offers international bachelor and master programs with specializations in finance, management and accounting. The Ph.D. program started in Fall 2005.

Research Institutes

• Centre for Financial Economics
• Centre for Practical Quantitative Finance
• Frankfurt Institute for Private Equity and M&A (FIPEMA)
• Management Research Centre
• Institute for International Health Management

Academic programs

All academic programs are accredited by the Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA).

Bachelor Programs

• International Business Administration (B.Sc.
  Bachelor of Science
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  ); including 2 semesters abroad
• Business Administration (B.Sc.
  Bachelor of Science
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  ); job-integrated
• Business Administration (B.Sc.
  Bachelor of Science
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  ); including bank apprenticeship
• Business Administration (B.Sc.
  Bachelor of Science
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  ); specialization in accounting
• Business Information Management (B.Sc.
  Bachelor of Science
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  ); including bank apprenticeship
• Management, Philosophy & Economics (B.Sc.
  Bachelor of Science
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  )
• Management & Financial Markets (B.Sc.
  Bachelor of Science
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  ); distance education

Master Programs

• Banking (M.Sc.
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  )
• Finance (M.Sc.
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  )
• Insurance (M.Sc.
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  )
• Development Finance (M.Sc.
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  )
• Accounting & Taxation (M.Sc.
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  )
• Quantitative Finance (M.Sc.
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  )
• Mergers & Acquisitions (LL.M.
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  )
• International Business and Taxation Law (LL.M.
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  ); in cooperation with Management Center Innsbruck
• MBA – International Hospital Management

Doctoral Programs

• Dr. rer. pol. (a German equivalent of a PhD
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   in business studies and economics)

Executive Education Programs

• Bankfachwirt (IHK)
• Bankbetriebswirt
• Diplomierter Bankbetriebswirt
• Fachberater für Finanzdienstleistungen
• Fachwirt Finanzdienstleistungen
• Investmentfachwirt (IHK)

Continuing Education Programs

• Estate Planner
• Financial Planner
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• Ship Finance (only ship finance qualification program in the world)
• Retirement Planning
• Finance Journalism

Frankfurt School International Advisory Services (IAS)

International Advisory Services (IAS) structures and implements consulting and training projects in emerging markets and developing countries. Clients include international donor organisations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), international financial institutions (IFIs), microfinance institutions (MFIs), banks and other financial institutions.

Experts of Frankfurt School of Finance & Management’s division International Advisory Services have supported partners and clients in the following areas:

• Capacity building and technical advisory services for banks and microfinance institutions of all types in all areas of banking and finance with focus on Micro and SME lending
• Change management processes to meet growth, competition and transformation needs
• Advisory to microfinance policy makers and regulators (downscaling, greenfielding, upscaling)
• Technical support to training institutes and specialised microfinance competence centres
• Conduction of market research, Due Diligences, feasibility studies and other studies

IAS reaches its clients through seven core competence centres:

* Microbanking

* Housing Finance

* Small and Medium Enterprise Finance

* Rural and Agricultural Finance

* Fund Management

* Risk Management

* Sustainable Energy Finance

The Frankfurt School International Advisory Services Summer Academy program for 2010:

§ Microfinance Principles Summer Academy July 2–4, 2010

§ MFI Management Summer Academy July 4–9, 2010

§ Commercial Micro Banking Summer Academy July 11–16, 2010

§ Sustainable Energy Finance Summer Academy July 18–23, 2010

§ Housing Finance Summer Academy July 25–30, 2010

§ www.frankfurt-school.de/summer_academy

Chronology

The Frankfurt School of Finance & Management looks back on decades of success and is now one the leading universities in Germany.

• 1957: Bankakademie founded by Gabler publishing house in Wiesbaden and began setting new standards in executive education for the financial services industry
• 1966: Bankakademie re-founded as an association, its members the regional associations of private banks and the credit union association
• End of the 1970s: General Management program added to the executive education course offering
• 1990: HfB, the academic arm of the Bankakademie founded
• 1994: First 35 graduates of the "diploma" program (equivalent to a master's degree)
• 2000: One of the first German universities to adopt the bachelor/master degree system (see Bologna process
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  )
• 2001: Opening of the new campus in Frankfurt's Ostend
• 2003: First graduates of master's program
• 2004: HfB named Wissenschaftliche Hochschule (authorization to award doctoral degrees)
• 2007: 50 year anniversary, all education and consulting services consolidated under the name Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Famous Graduates

In the last 50 years over 100 000 students have graduated from the Bankakademie, HfB and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Many of them hold important position in German and international companies, especially in Frankfurt's banks and near-banks.

Alumni Clubs

Since up to now there is no alumni club for the newly consolidated Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, alumni are organized in two separate organizations:

• Bankakademie Management Alumni: alumni of the executive education management programs from the Frankfurt School (formerly Bankakademie).http://www.bankakademiealumni.de
• HfB-Alumni e. V.: alumni from the Frankfurt School's academic programs (formerly HfB).http://www.hfb-alumni.de/

External links

• Frankfurt School of Finance & Management