Dr. Matthias Catón

My name is Matthias Catón. I’m the Director of Corporate Development at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

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Register now for SAT and ACT tests!

Students who want to start their undergraduate studies in Frankfurt School’s Bachelor of Science in Business Administration this year and who would like to take one of the standardized tests should hurry up. SAT and ACT only have one test date each left in this cycle!

College Board offers the last international SAT on 6 May. Students can register here until 7 April. ACT‘s last test date is 10 June and registrations are possible until 5 May.

Of course, you can take the Frankfurt School admissions test instead. You can either come to Frankfurt for one of the regular Assessment Centers days (see my calendar for the dates) or sit the test abroad. We offer this possibility for a fee at the offices of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Goethe Institutes.

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Frankfurt School’s BSc Advanced Study Phase gets new time structure

From spring 2018 onward, two things will change for the Advanced Study Phase (that is, semesters 6 and 7) of the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at Frankfurt School.

Thematic areas of the Bachelor of Science Advanced Study Phase at Frankfurt School

First, we will introduce a structure of four quarters, which means that we will divide each semester into two quarters with seven or eight weeks of classes followed by an exam week. We started this system in 2015 with the first semester. Through the additional mid-term exam weeks we reduce the number of exams at the end of each semester and allow students to concentrate on fewer topics at a given time.

Second, the summer semester will start one month earlier than before, namely at the beginning of February. We do this to satisfy frequent requests from students who wanted to have more time off during the summer. Employers often require a three-month minimum for internships, and until now Frankfurt School students only had two months off in the summer. Many students felt that they were missing out on attractive internship opportunities.

The new time structure will look like this:

  • Q3: weeks 6 to 12, exams in week 13
  • Q4: weeks 14 to 21, exams in week 22
  • Q1: weeks 36 to 42, exams in week 43
  • Q2: weeks 44 to 50, exams in week 51

There will be thirteen weeks off in the summer and six in the winter. In case you are wondering what the week numbers mean, we follow ISO 8601 which defines week 1 to be the week with the year’s first Thursday in it.

The concrete dates for 2018 are the following:

  • Q3: 5 February – 31 March 2018
  • Q4: 2 April – 2 June 2018
  • Q1: 3 September – 27 October 2018
  • Q2: 29 October – 22 December 2018
Time structure of the BSc Advanced Study Phase

Each course will run for eight hours a week either on one day (see figure, slots A to E) or on two consecutive days (slots F and G).

While the changes bring a lot of advantages to many students, some are also struggling with them. Depending on where they spend their semester abroad, some students might want to do internships in February and March. It will, therefore, be possible for all students, independent of their concentration, to skip the first quarter of the summer semester (Q3) and only return to Frankfurt at the beginning of April.

You can find all the details in this document that we prepared for the 2015 intake, the first to study with the new time structure.

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Starting in 2017: New Marketing Concentration in the Frankfurt School BSc

Analyst at meeting table

The Frankfurt School Bachelor of Science in Business Administration is growing! Not only did we welcome yet another record intake of 268 new students last month, but we’re also expanding our program. From 2017 onwards we offer a new Concentration in the field of Marketing, which raises the number of Concentrations to eight.

Marketing is a core function of modern companies. Some even say it is the essence of business. It’s an exciting and very diverse field to work in and an area that is constantly evolving. New technologies offer possibilities that were unthinkable not long ago. Companies can use Big Data to analyze their customers’ needs and communicate with them through social media platforms. At the same time, these technologies have empowered consumers and resulting in entirely different demands for marketing departments.

As with all Concentrations in Frankfurt School’s BSc in Business Administration program, students will get a solid foundation in all areas of management plus in-depth knowledge of marketing and sales.

The Concentration will be entirely taught in English, which means that it is attractive not only to German students wishing to pursue a global career but also to international students who don’t speak German.

Here’s the draft curriculum. You can also check out the dedicated page on Frankfurt School’s website, where you can apply as of now.

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How Frankfurt Schools helps uncover the Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow

For the second time, Frankfurt School will be the academic partner of Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow, a business plan competition for high school students organized by the American-German Business Club (AGBC) in Frankfurt.

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Global Leadership Fellows

View of Lake Geneva from Eaux-Vives

I just came back from Geneva where I spent two days with friends and fellow alumni of the World Economic Forum’s Global Leadership Fellows Program. It was great catching up with everybody a bit more than a year after I left to take up my current position at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

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