Facts & Figures
Overview
Established
- 1898 (re-established in 1992)
Status
- Private, state-approved institution with university status, able to grant doctoral and habilitation degrees
Accreditation
- AACSB
- ACQUIN
Students
- 800 (9/2022)
- 36 % international students (09/2022)
Study Locations
- Leipzig
- Cologne
- Munich
Partner Universities
- More than 140 top universities around the globe
Programs
- Full-time Master in Management
- Part-time Master in Management
- Full-time Master in Entrepreneurship
- Full-time Master in Management | Finance
- Part-time Master in Management | Finance
- Full-time MBA Program
- Full-time MBA Program | Finance
- Part-time MBA Program
- Doctoral Program
- Executive Education
Alumni
- 3,500+ graduates (10/2022)
- 10 alumni chapters, more in founding
- 50+ regional meetings worldwide per year
Startups founded by HHL Alumni
- 530
- 50,000+ jobs created
HHL Facts & Figures 2022
Numbers and Highlights
Innovative. International. Individual.
We are HHL.
A tight-knit community of
800 students | 56 nationalities | 3,500+ active alumni
Organizational and Academic Structure
HHL is a non-profit limited liability company (“gemeinnützige GmbH”). Its shares are held by the following organizations:
- Leipzig Chamber of Industry and Commerce
- Friends of HHL
- Development Bank of Saxony (SAB)
- HHL Foundation
HHL’s executive bodies are:
The academic structure of HHL departmentalizes into
- the Academic Director
- HHL’s Scientific Advisory Board,
- the International Advisory Board
- and chairs and centers.
Academic Director Research is Jun.-Prof. Dr. Dominik Kanbach. He is supported by Vice Dean Prof. Dr. Henning Zülch.
History
HHL is a business school with a long history
The Handelshochschule Leipzig, the first German commercial college, was founded on April 25, 1898.
Moving between locations several times, including locations in Löhrstraße and Schulstraße, the school settled in Leipzig’s Ritterstraße 8/10 in 1910.
The end of the Second World War also meant the end of the Handelshochschule Leipzig.
In February 1946, it then was integrated into the reopened University of Leipzig as Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. The foundation of a Hochschule für Binnenhandel Leipzig (Graduate School of Domestic Trade) – established in 1953 and closed again in 1963 – was followed by the formation of the state-run Leipzig Graduate School of Management in 1969, which after the fall of the Berlin Wall, had to close down under the Saxon Higher Education Act by the end of September 1992.
Almost at the same time, in October, 1992 the Leipzig Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK Leipzig) and the Society of Friends of HHL (GdF) founded a new and independently operated Graduate School of Management which under the name of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management has become one of the leading business schools in Europe. In 2022 HHL celebrated the 30th anniversary of its re-founding.
-> Where to find historical HHL documents (PDF in German)