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Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Private finance and business school on a Frankfurt city campus; four English-taught BSc degrees with a semester abroad, entry by online assessment.

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In English
4 programmes
City
Frankfurt am Main
Next deadline
31 May 2027
Founded
1957

Deadlines

  1. 31 May 2027*

    Medicine group closes for gap-year applicants (leaving certificate before mid-January)
    Hard deadline
    Details

    This deadline applies if your school-leaving certificate predates 16 January of the application year, which for an IB candidate means you took a gap year. Straight from the Diploma, this is not your deadline.

    Published as "31.05.2026 - Ende der Bewerbungsphase (Ausschlussfrist) fuer Alt-Abiturient*innen", qualified "mit einem HZB-Zeugnis vor 16.01.2026". If you take a gap year and apply with your 2027 diploma for 2028 entry, you become an Altabiturient and the deadline moves forward by six weeks. An Ausschlussfrist cannot be extended, and hochschulstart says so explicitly - not even where the applicant is blameless. hochschulstart.de carries only two tables, Wintersemester 2026/27 and an archive of Sommersemester 2026, and no Wintersemester 2027/28 dates exist anywhere on the site. Judging by this cycle the winter table appears in spring, so recheck from about March 2027.

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  2. 30 June 2027

    Application deadline, all four full-time bachelor's
    Hard deadline
    DetailsSource

  3. 15 July 2027*

    Medicine and neighbours close — for applicants with a 2027 certificate
    Hard deadline
    Details

    The deadline for a student applying straight from the May 2027 session. Roughly a week after results, so the paperwork has to be ready before they arrive.

    Published as "15.07.2026 - Ende der Bewerbungsphase (Ausschlussfrist) fuer Neu-Abiturient*innen", qualified "mit einem HZB-Zeugnis nach 15.01.2026". Your IB results arrive 6 July 2027, so you fall in the Neuabiturient group and this is the deadline that matters. Which group you are in turns on the date printed on the certificate, not on when you apply. hochschulstart.de carries only two tables, Wintersemester 2026/27 and an archive of Sommersemester 2026, and no Wintersemester 2027/28 dates exist anywhere on the site. Judging by this cycle the winter table appears in spring, so recheck from about March 2027.

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All dates for this school (2 more)

  1. 21 October 2026

    Assessment centre dates offered so far: 21 Oct, 18 Nov, 10 Dec 2026 (apply 2 weeks before)
    DetailsSource

  2. 6 July 2027*

    IB results released
    Details

    Early July, which is what places an IB candidate in the later medicine group rather than the earlier one.

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* Last year’s date, not yet confirmed.

Every date in Germany

What you could study here

EU/EEA tuition: €8,600 a semester.

Business Administration

BSc · 3½ yrs

Taught in English or German; choose the English track (the German track switches to English from semester 4).

Business

What it asks of IB students

IB Diploma accepted; no points minimum and no numerus clausus. You are admitted on an online assessment centre: maths, cognitive and English tests and an interview. No English certificate is needed.

Where it says so

Where it says so

Its IB recognition statement

Worth knowing

Admission is rolling: you can apply with your last two school reports instead of the final diploma, and must apply at least two weeks before your assessment-centre date.

All 3 notes
  • Admission is rolling: you can apply with your last two school reports instead of the final diploma, and must apply at least two weeks before your assessment-centre date.
  • On top of tuition you pay a €100 application fee and a €600 enrolment fee.
  • Every programme runs seven semesters, with semester 5 spent studying abroad at a partner university and doing an internship.

Sources
  1. Frankfurt School — Bachelor programmes (four full-time BSc, two part-time German BA) — checked 2026-09-26
  2. Frankfurt School — Bachelor in Business Administration (assessment centre: "Mathematics test, Cognitive test, English test, Structured interview"; "there is no numerus clausus") — checked 2026-09-30
  3. Frankfurt School — Bachelor in Artificial Intelligence & Data Engineering (portal open 1 Sep 2026 to 30 Jun 2027; strong maths foundation "important") — checked 2026-09-30
  4. Frankfurt School — Bachelor in Management, Philosophy & Economics (no philosophy or economics needed from school) — checked 2026-09-30
  5. Frankfurt School — Bachelor in Business Information Systems Engineering (three-day model; cooperation partner "German language skills are required" or "a company of your choice") — checked 2026-09-30
  6. Frankfurt School — Campus (Frankfurt am Main) — checked 2026-09-30