Munich Business School is one of the leading internationally recognized business schools in the German-speaking area and was founded in 1991 (at that time named 'Europäische Betriebswirtschaftsakademie') by the European Business Schools International (ebsi) London, Paris, Madrid, and Milan. The initiators pursue one purpose above all others: to establish new benchmarks for practical orientation and internationality for business education in the economic center of Southern Germany. Four years after becoming the first private university in Bavaria, the school is renamed Munich Business School. Today, MBS offers full-time Bachelor and Master programmes, as well as a 24-month Executive MBA programme and counts about 600 students and almost 1000 graduates.