Bachelor in International Business Administration: Our Application and Admission Process

We require a secondary school diploma or equivalent higher education entrance qualification (e.g., IB, Abitur, A-Levels).

If your secondary school diploma has not been issued by the application deadline, you may apply with your most recent mid-term report card and / or predicted grades from your final school year.

If you have any questions about your eligibility for admission with your school leaving certificate, please let us know. We are here to help.

We will accept any one of the following English language tests:

• TOEFL iBT: You will need a minimum score of 95.
  Note: Our TOEFL code is 0682. Minimum score is based on the official score, not on the "myBest scores"
• TOEFL iBT Special Home Edition: You will need a minimum score of 95
• Institutional TOEFL (ITP): You will need a minimum score of 587
• IELTS (Academic Module): ou will need a minimum score of 6.5
• Cambridge C1 Advanced Zertifikat: You will need a minimum C-grade

We recommend that you take your English test well in advance. This will give you plenty of time to retake the test by our deadline for applications, if you do not get the required score on first attempt.

If you are graduating from an English-taught school (please note: English as a subject is not sufficient), you may be exempt from an English test. Please upload a confirmation from your school in our application portal. 

Either home or online versions of the language tests mentioned are accepted by WHU, but not directly recommended. WHU does not make any exceptions in the event of late results or results missing by the deadline due to technical problems. 

We believe in practical experience.  

Yours should be achieved through either an internship or apprenticeship. It should be a total of six weeks. And it should be in the field of business administration/management, e.g. marketing and sales, administration, finance and taxes, real estate, logistics, innovation and technology, or in areas such as communication, media, corporate social responsibility or sustainability.

Your internship can be completed in a start-up, small to medium-sized company or corporation.

This practical experience can also be a combination of multiple internships lasting at least two weeks each. We cannot consider internships that were completed more than two years ago or in your own family business. The internship(s) must be completed before the start of the program.

You should submit proof of your internship by May 15. If you have already completed your internship, this should be an internship certificate. If you haven’t completed your internship yet, this should be a provisional confirmation. You are welcome to use our example. 

As soon as we have reviewed all application materials, we invite qualified candidates to participate in the final admission round. Your grades are important, but they are not the only thing we are interested in. We select candidates based on academic performance as well as personal characteristics and extracurricular activities.

In this step, we want to learn more about you. The admission round is entirely online and consists of three parts:

• An analytical test (sample questions, pdf). Please find a sample quiz to test your skills here.
• An assessment (a presentation and questions about your personality and motivation)
• One-on-one interviews

We usually make our decision within a week, following your one-on-one interview. You will receive the result via email.

You can reserve your study offer for a year if you are planning a gap year after school (e.g. for work and travel, internship, au-pair). In this case, you can also defer submission of your English certificate and proof of work experience until the following year.