About the school

our mission statement

Vision
To be known as a progressive interdisciplinary institution for reflecting on responsibility and social challenges in research and teaching.

Mission
Advancing knowledge, entrepreneurial thinking, and responsible action for business and society.

Our understanding of entrepreneurship

We understand entrepreneurship as a key competence to identify, seize and create opportunities that challenge existing and often unquestioned structures and thus create economic, ecological or social added value. Entrepreneurship expresses itself in the form of projects. These can include, for example, the establishment of a start-up, but also the implementation of an innovation in an existing organization. The aim of such projects is to solve practical problems and gain new insights.

Our school

The School of Management and Technology is the academic home of more than 2,200 Bachelor and Master students as well as researchers - 45 professors and 80 research assistants -from the fields of Management, Business Informatics, Engineering and Psychology. The interrelations and collaborations between these disciplines are very important to the members of the School, which is expressed through the interdisciplinary degree programs as well as manifold cross-departmental research efforts.

The focus topics of the School are reflected in its degree programs: 4 major and 8 minor programs at the College, 9 master's programs and 5 doctoral programs at the Graduate School, and 15 part-time programs at the Professional School provide academic training in the fields of Business Administration, Business Information Systems, Business Education, and Engineering, as well as Management and Entrepreneurship, Accounting and Finance, and Organizational Psychology.

Our memberships

AACSB
The School of Management and Technology is a member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and on its way to international accreditation. The AACSB accreditation certifies an internationally recognized high quality level of study programs.

ESU
The School of Management and Technology is a member of the European University Network on Entrepreneurship (ESU). This network promotes research activities as well as the education of doctoral students in the field of entrepreneurship.

GBSN
The School of Management and Technology is a member of the Global Business School Network (GBSN). This is a non-profit organization that harnesses the strength of a network of leading business schools to address the urgent need for qualified managers, entrepreneurs and executives in countries of the Global South by improving access to high-quality, locally relevant management education.

UnPrme
Since July 2019, Leuphana University has been a member of the UN initiative "Principles for Responsible Management Education" (UnPrme), which aims to integrate responsibility and sustainability into business studies programs. Joining the UN initiative is part of the project "Responsible Management Education in Business Administration".