Type Business School Students 202 Total enrollment 253 (2016) President Thomas Strothotte Academic staff 19 | Established September 2010 Location Hamburg, Germany Dean Sönke Albers Phone +49 40 3287070 Founded September 2010 | |
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Address Großer Grasbrook 17, 20457 Hamburg, Germany Similar EBC Hochschule, Hamburg School of Business, MSH Medical School H, Brand Academy, SRH Hochschule für Logisti Profiles | ||
Kuehne Logistics University – Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Logistik und Unternehmensführung (KLU) is a private, state-recognized university based in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded by the Kühne Stiftung (Kuehne Foundation) which is based in Schindellegi, Switzerland. The contracting body is the Kühne Logistics University GmbH. The non-profit foundation supports education and further education as well as research and science in transport and logistics. KLU comprises two departments: "Logistics" and "Management and Economics", and it spans the whole gamut of university education and executive education, from bachelor's degrees and two master’s programs to the structured PhD program. KLU is located at Hamburg’s HafenCity area and its classes are taught in English.
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History
The Kuehne Logistics University evolved in September 2010 from Kühne School of Logistics and Management, the graduate business school for logistics management at the Technical University of Hamburg (TUHH). The Kühne School was founded in 2003 as a public–private partnership by the Technical University of Hamburg and the Kühne Foundation as Hamburg School of Logistics, but was later renamed in honor of Klaus-Michael Kühne, a German entrepreneur who donated 3 million euro for the school's foundation, followed by an additional donation of 30 million euro in 2007. In conjunction with the opening ceremony of the new campus, Klaus-Michael Kühne donated an additional 40 million euro to the KLU.
Kühne School offered a full-time and a part-time in-service M.B.A. program with a logistics management specialization, and two master’s programs, one in Logistics, Infrastructure, and Mobility and the other in International Industrial Engineering.
Education programs
Accreditation
All programs are accredited by either ASIIN or FIBAA. As a private higher education institution, the KLU has been accredited by the German Council of Science and Humanities (WR, Wissenschaftsrat) which regularly assesses the quality of private education undertakings in Germany. In its decision, the Wissenschaftsrat highlighted the international education at KLU and the quality of its research output.
Rankings
Handelsblatt
The 2014 Handelsblatt Ranking for Business Schools places Kühne Logistics University (KLU) in Hamburg at the very top. KLU ranks no. 3 in research output per professor among all universities in Germany and has the highest research output of all private business schools in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
CHE University Ranking 2014
KLU achieved a top rating in the five most important criteria CHE Center for Higher Education examined in its current master’s student rankings for business administration. KLU students who responded to the survey gave the overall learning environment, academic program, supervision, and international orientation the top rating of very good. They gave the same rating to the degree program’s relevance to academics and practice, the library, and the building and facilities.
U-Multirank 2014
KLU ranks top in timely program completion and international degree orientation. International students are clearly in the majority at KLU, which is our trademark as an internationally oriented scientific university. A semester abroad at one of the partner universities in Europe, Asia, Africa or the Americas plus internships at renowned, global companies are standard components of the KLU program.
Handelsblatt Ranking 2012
KLU is ranked among the top universities within a field of over 120 institutions. This ranking has been achieved even though the newly founded university has only a fraction of the professors of other well-established universities. When the research performance per professor is taken as a yardstick, a truer picture of the research strength of KLU is presented: KLU is in seventh place – on a par with long-established faculties such as those at the universities of Mannheim, Munich, and Cologne.
Erasmus
In July 2012 KLU has been awarded the ERASMUS University Charter.
Partner Universities
KLU offers partnerships with more than 50 universities worldwide including: