Berlin School of Economics and Law

The Berlin School of Economics and Law (German: Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht), abbreviated as BSEL, is a public institution of higher education and research founded on 1 April 2009 through the merger of the Berlin School of Economics (BSE) and the FHVR Berlin. The BSEL portfolio provides a wide range of Bachelor's and Master's programmes in fields such as business, administration for the public and private sector, public security, law, or engineering. BSEL has an international approach with close working relationships to over 150 partner universities all over the world. The school offers a 5-year dual degree with France's ESCE International Business School in Paris, enabling selected bilingual students to have the "Master in Management" from ESCE and the Master of Arts from HWR Berlin. This program is supported by the Franco-German University (FGU). According to Times Higher Education , BSEL is considered one of the top 15 MBA schools (rank 6) in Germany . At the same time, in WirtschaftsWoche's ranking of Germany's major applied science universities, BSEL ranked 5th in Business & Information Systems Engineering (2015) , and 12th in Computer Science in the country (2018) . Accreditations BSEL is AMBA accredited (one of 6 schools in Germany) and member of the EFMD, the AACSB as well as the UAS7 Alliance for Excellence, a strategic alliance of seven leading German universities.