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Global Impact Executive MBA

Ranked #1 in Germany for innovation in leadership education and 3rd in Europe by the World University Rankings for Innovation in 2024.
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November 16, 2026
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Curriculum adapted to your needs

Choose Between Two Variants
Stop guessing which courses pay off and wasting time on topics you’ll never use. Instead select from our targeted nine week modules designed to close your specific skill gaps, build in demand expertise, and deliver tangible career results.
90 ECTS
120 ECTS
90 ECTS – 18 Months
Includes 2 Impact Certificates (30 ECTS)
  • Previous Undergraduate University Degree is required
  • Prior ECTS required: 210 ECTS minimum
  • For those with prior academic or professional experience, a shorter path to graduation in just 1.5 years
120 ECTS – 24 Months
Includes 4 Impact Certificates (60 ECTS)
  • Previous Undergraduate University Degree is required
  • ECTS required: 180 ECTS minimum
  • A complete study experience designed for learners starting fresh, covering the full curriculum over two years
Get all the Infos on the Program Page
Choose Between Two Variants
Stop guessing which courses pay off and wasting time on topics you’ll never use. Instead select from our targeted nine week modules designed to close your specific skill gaps, build in demand expertise, and deliver tangible career results.
90 ECTS
120 ECTS
90 ECTS – 18 Months
Includes 1 Impact Certificate (15 ECTS)
  • Previous Undergraduate University Degree is required
  • Prior ECTS required: 210 ECTS minimum
  • For those with prior academic or professional experience, a shorter path to graduation in just 1.5 years
120 ECTS – 24 Months
Includes 3Impact Certificates (45 ECTS)
  • Previous Undergraduate University Degree is required
  • ECTS required: 180 ECTS minimum
  • A complete study experience designed for learners starting fresh, covering the full curriculum over two years
Get all the Infos on the Program Page
Choose Between Three Variants
Stop guessing which courses pay off and wasting time on topics you’ll never use. Instead select from our targeted nine week modules designed to close your specific skill gaps, build in demand expertise, and deliver tangible career results.
60 ECTS
90 ECTS
120 ECTS
60 ECTS – 12 Months
Includes 1 Impact Certificate (15 ECTS)
  • Prior ECTS required: 210 ECTS minimum
  • Work experience: min 5 years, ideally with leadership experience
  • Ideal for: Senior Professionals with a strong academic background
  • Why choose this: fast-track your MBA with executive experience
90 ECTS – 18 Months (Standard)
Includes 3 Impact Certificates (45 ECTS)
  • Prior ECTS required: 180 ECTS minimum
  • Work experience: min 2 years
  • Ideal for: Professionals with a Bachelor’s degree and solid work experience
  • Why choose this: most flexible option, ideal for mid-career professionals
120 ECTS – 24 Months
Includes 5 Impact Certificates (75 ECTS)
  • Prior ECTS required: 180 ECTS minimum or vocational training + training experience
  • Work experience: min 2 years
  • Ideal for: early-career professionals or applicants with vocational training
  • Why choose this: ideal if you plan to pursue a doctorate or have a non-traditional academic background
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Challenge yourself during Four Phases
1. Orientation
15 ECTS
2.Calibration
45 ECTS
3.Elevation
10 ECTS
4.Activation
20 ECTS
Discover your mission and purpose with ToU’s mindset. Set your initial direction, but keep the freedom to adapt your path as you grow.
Shape your studies by choosing flexible impact certificates. Select electives that match your mission, and adjust them anytime along the way.
Apply your knowledge in a real-world research project, tackling challenges with hands-on impact.
Bring your vision to life with a final thesis project, created together with industry experts.
1. Orientation
15 ECTS
Discover your mission and purpose with ToU’s mindset. Set your initial direction, but keep the freedom to adapt your path as you grow.
2.Calibration
45 ECTS
Shape your studies by choosing flexible impact certificates. Select electives that match your mission, and adjust them anytime along the way.
3.Elevation
10 ECTS
Apply your knowledge in a real-world research project, tackling challenges with hands-on impact.
4.Activation
20 ECTS
Bring your vision to life with a final thesis project, created together with industry experts.
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Orientation Phase
Calibration Phase
Elevation Phase
Activation Phase

Explore Your Learning-Journey

Move beyond theory with a curriculum structured to help you learn, apply, and lead with confidence.

Orientation Phase

Clarify your mission and map your success
When choices crowd your mind and direction feels uncertain, you need a clear anchor. In this phase you’ll hone in on what truly energizes you and let that clarity guide every decision. By defining your mission and tackling your first group challenge, you’ll emerge from Orientation confident in your purpose and ready to tailor each module to your unique path.
15 ECTS
4 Modules
3-6 Weeks / Module
Your Starting Point
You’re full of ambition but need clarity on which direction will deliver the biggest impact for you and your career.
Our Guiding Framework
Through live workshops and group mission sprints, we help you discover your core purpose, define success on your terms, and gain the certainty to own the rest of your journey.

Orientation Modules

Build Your Dream Team
Mission Identification
Reimagining Business Models for a Sustainable Tomorrow
Responsible Organizations & Leaders

Calibration Phase

Build Your Perfect Skill Set
In this phase, you’ll gain the knowledge and skills you need to advance your career – taught by industry leaders and supported by hands-on challenges. Choose your learning path by selecting modules (Impact Certificates) that match your goals.
45 ECTS
Choose 3 out of 5 Modules
3 Months / Module
Zero In On What Matters
You’re juggling career ambitions, personal commitments, and limited time, so generic courses feel like a gamble on your ROI.
Tailored Learning, Maximum Impact
With nine-week modules, professor insights, and live sessions with industry leaders, you hand-pick the exact skills you need for real career growth.

Impact Certificates

Recommended for this Program
Driving Impact through Finance
Further Options to Choose From
Inclusive Leadership & Diversity Management
Innovation Strategies for Business Transformation
Leading The Change
Managing Sustainability Transformations in Organizations

Elevation Phase

Prove Your Expertise with Real-World Challenges
In this phase, you’ll transform theory into practice. Working on live briefs designed with industry partners, you’ll tackle the exact challenges you’ll face in the real world. Through hands-on project work, you'll build a portfolio that demonstrates your impact, applied expertise, and job readiness.
10 ECTS
Real World Challenge
6 Weeks / Module
Bridge Theory and Practice
You know the concepts but worry you’ll struggle to apply them in real jobs.
Hands-On Industry Experience
Through live briefs co-designed with industry partners, you tackle the exact challenges you’ll face on the job so you build a portfolio that proves you’re career ready.

Real-World Challenges

Global Impact Deep Dive

Activation Phase

Turn Your Learning into Action
In the Activation Phase, you’ll bring everything you’ve learned to life. This final phase challenges you to apply your skills in a real life project. You’ll work alongside mentors and industry partners to create a tangible final thesis project that shows your impact, expertise, and global leadership with purpose.
20 ECTS
Final Thesis
5 Months in Total
Graduate with a Real-World Portfolio
You choose your finale whether an entrepreneurial venture, a deep dive research study, or an industry brief so you graduate with a capstone that reflects your mission, demonstrates real world applicability, and proves you are ready to step confidently into your next role.

Thesis Project

In Activation you bring your expertise to life by developing a rigorous research thesis that tackles a real-world challenge in your field. You’ll work closely with faculty mentors and a global network of senior professionals who challenge your thinking and refine your analysis, ensuring you graduate not only with a respected drgree but also a definitive case study that proves your leadership.
Activation: Executive Lab
Experts

Combine Industry Expertise with Academic Knowledge

Matthias Lange

Partner bei McKinsey & Company

Industry Expertise

Matthias Lange is a strategy and digital business-building leader with deep expertise in driving transformation and innovation. As a Partner at McKinsey & Company, he helps organizations create data-enabled businesses and navigate digital shifts with clarity and purpose. Outside of consulting, Matthias is passionate about empowering teams and leaders to embrace change and build resilient, future-ready organizations.

Rolf Schrömgens

Founder Trivago & brafe.space

Industry Expertise

Rolf Schrömgens is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Trivago, where he helped reshape how millions of people explore the world. He is also the founder of brafe.space, a platform dedicated to deep personal development and conscious leadership. Driven by curiosity and responsibility, Rolf invests his energy in education, entrepreneurship, and creating environments where people can grow beyond the status quo.

Academic & Industry Expertise

Our dedicated professors are appointed in compliance with the Hessian Higher Education Act, adhering to the strict requirements set for all state universities in Germany.

Prof. Dr. Sinem Solak

Program Director BSc AI & Sustainable Technologies, Professor of AI & Technology
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Prof. Dr. Maximilian Lude

Program Director BA Responsible Entrepreneurship & Management, Professor of Innovation & Strategy
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Prof. Dr. Nellie Marangou

VP of Academic Affairs
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Prof. Dr. Jonathan Costa

VP of Research, Program Director MSc Sustainability, Innovation & Technology, Professor of Data Science & AI
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Prof. Dr. Daniela Peukert

Professor of Design for Sustainability Transformation
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Prof. Dr. Sami Asad

Program Director MSc Sustainability, Entrepreneurship & Technology, Professor of Sustainability & Innovation
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Funke

CEO, Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation
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Christian Rebernik

CEO, Co-Founder and Challenge Owner at Tomorrow University
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70% of Graduates Advanced toward their Mission

Female Empowerment

Evelyn Fischer

Founder of FINORIA

I had a successful but somewhat unfulfilling career in tech that no longer fit where I saw my career going. At Tomorrow University, I gained both the expertise needed and the direction required to found my own company, FINORIA. I built my company to close the gender investment and wealth gap.

Universally Connected Humanity

Christian Kaya

Director Executive Search & Consulting at Riverstate

During my Impact MBA at Tomorrow University, I developed my personal mission statement: to grow awareness of a universally connected humanity. Since then, I've integrated transformation consulting into my executive search work and launched TRAGWEITE, a podcast on leadership, transformation, and sustainability in construction and infrastructure. The MBA wasn't a conclusion — it was a beginning.

Sustainability & Fairness

Vânia Mendes

Sr. Implementation Manager at Position Green

Sustainability and fairness were always my why, an underlying purpose for my contribution to society. What I lacked was the how. The ability to take ideas and advance them in an organization to the point that they become real, and have real impact. Today, I work at the intersection of ESG, technology, and project leadership, helping organizations close the gap between what they believe and what they actually build. It’s exactly where I wanted to be.

Digital Product Development

Marius

Product Management & Development

I’ve always believed that the best digital products don’t just work, but they feel inevitable. You use them once and wonder how you managed without them. A product loved by people is one they reach for instinctively, before they have consciously decided to use it. This standard shapes every design decision. As a Product Manager and Developer, I have always been drawn to the how of building software.

Finding Purpose & Impact

Katharina

Process Safety Engineer at Evonik

My mission is pragmatic transformation: helping people move from understanding a problem to actually doing something about it. Most sustainability conversations stall between insight and action, and that’s exactly where my work comes in. The MBA gave me the clarity I needed and the community that encouraged me to push forward. I now live this through mentoring, collaboration across disciplines and in pushing others to keep learning with the goal of finding their purpose and impact.

77% of Graduates Progressed their Careers

Different Paths. Shared Progress.

Students shape their careers while they study. Some advance in their field, some pivot to new paths, and others build companies of their own. What they share is a clear sense of progression.

Roberta Scrofani

Entrepreneur & Advisor in AI Transformation

After 15 years in adtech, I studied at Tomorrow University and became an independent AI advisor, now helping companies navigate AI transformation.

Christoph Pemp

Director of Advisory & Client Solutions

After studying at Tomorrow University, I moved into a new role at one of the Group's ventures in 2026, where I now apply the AI knowledge the programme gave me.

Victoria van Oppen

Organizational Development Manager

As an engineer passionate about transformation, the Impact MBA gave me the tools to pivot into organizational development, helping companies build high-trust, sustainable workplaces.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the eligibility criteria?

  • Prior ECTS required: 180 ECTS minimum
  • Work experience: min 10 years
  • Leadership experience: min 5 years
  • Ideal for: Senior professionals preparing for broader strategic or executive responsibility
  • Why choose this: flexible option, designed for executive reality, peer network & trusted sparring, global high-value live experience
  • Sufficient English language proficiency is required, at a minimum B2 level according to the European Framework of Reference for Languages
  • Applicants must show strong motivation, demonstrated through the application form and evaluated during the admission process
  • An admission interview is mandatory to assess eligibility and alignment with the program

Is the Global Impact Executive MBA accredited?

Our Global Impact Executive MBA program is accredited by Germany’s Accreditation Council through the Accreditation, Certification, and Quality Assurance Institute (ACQUIN), a reputable non-profit organization association comprising over 150 higher education institutions in Germany and abroad.

What differentiates the Global Impact Executive MBA from other Executive MBA programs?

  • Built for executive reality: efficient, personalized remote learning alongside a demanding job
  • High-impact in-person immersions with a mission-driven executive cohort
  • A deliberately small, selective peer group — 20 seats in the founding cohort
  • Access to Tomorrow University's global community of 1,000+ professionals
  • 21st-century leadership skills for building sustainable, high-performance organizations

How does the Executive MBA differ from other Impact MBA programs at Tomorrow University?

  • In-person cohort kick-off with a welcome dinner
  • A week-long global deep dive outside Europe
  • A streamlined program flow with executive-specific live sessions
  • A curated executive curriculum including industry expert sessions
  • Monthly executive group coaching

Are travel and accommodation included in the tuition fee?

Tuition covers the full academic program and all learning experiences. Travel and accommodation for onsite experiences are arranged and paid for separately by learners. If a learner can’t participate in onsite experiences, the degree can still be completed fully online.

What are ECTS credits?

ECTS, the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System, is the standard way European universities measure study workload. One ECTS credit equals roughly 25 to 30 hours of learning, and a full year of full-time study is 60 credits. At Tomorrow University, a Bachelor's is 180 ECTS and a Master's is 90 or 120 ECTS.

Is Tomorrow University accredited?

Yes. Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences is a state-recognized private university in Germany, under the State of Hesse. Its programs are accredited through the Akkreditierungsrat, the German Accreditation Council, with bachelor's degrees accredited via FIBAA and master's and MBA programs via ACQUIN. The distance-learning format is approved by Germany's ZFU.

Can you study while working full-time?

Yes. Tomorrow University programs are 100% online and self-paced, built to fit around a full-time job with no on-campus requirement. You can study a part-time online master's, bachelor's, or MBA while working, learning through Challenge-Based Learning that turns your real work into part of the degree. You choose full-time or part-time pacing.

What is Challenge-Based Learning?

Challenge-Based Learning is a method where you learn by solving real, open-ended problems instead of memorizing theory from lectures. At Tomorrow University it runs across four phases, Orientation, Calibration, Elevation, and Activation, so you build knowledge, apply it to interdisciplinary challenges, and finish with a thesis or applied project. It is 100% online and self-paced.

Is an online degree recognized?

Yes, the degree is accredited. Tomorrow University degrees are accredited German higher-education degrees, awarded under the German Accreditation Council through FIBAA for Bachelor's programs and ACQUIN for Master's and MBA programs. An accredited online degree is formally equivalent to an on-campus one. Recognition follows the accreditation, not the delivery format.