WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management is committed to excellence in management education, with special emphasis on learning and knowledge creation. Founded in 1984 through private initiative, WHU attracts an exceptionally gifted and entrepreneurial student body. As expressed in the claim "Excellence in Management Education," WHU pursues excellence in everything it does: its degree and continuing education programs are characterized by innovative curricula, superior instruction, outstanding research, first-class international partnerships with more than 150 leading universities and more than 150 high-level contacts to the business world. 22 outstanding full-time professors, 60 national and international highly-qualified associate lecturers and nine academic centers guarantee practice-oriented teaching and provide WHU's more than 500 students with an intellectually stimulating and creative atmosphere.
Bucerius Law School in Hamburg is the leading private and state-accredited law school in Germany and is characterized by its international focus, practical and performance orientation, and attention to the personal development of the individual student. Bucerius Law School was founded in 2000 by the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, one of Germany's largest private foundations, in order to stimulate new developments in higher education and to make a contribution to German legal education. To meet this challenge, Bucerius Law School offers an academically-accomplished and bilingual legal education with a focus on International Business Law, as well as a Studium Generale. 20 professors, an Institute for Foundation Law and the Law of Non-Profit Organizations, an Institute for Corporate Law and Capital Markets Law and a Center for Legal Learning have all been established. Some 250 Ph.D. students - many of them working as research and teaching assistants - and some 30 guest lecturers further enrich the curriculum. A wide range of conferences, external lectures and other international events also take place on the Bucerius campus.
