Without a university degree, little is possible at the top hierarchy level in the German economy.
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Dusseldorf Harvard, St. Gallen? no Most German top managers studied in Cologne. 20 board members from Dax, MDax and SDax graduated in the Rhine metropolis.
This is shown by an evaluation by the management consultancy Horváth. She analyzed the biographies of executives at C-level – i.e. CEOs, finance or HR managers – with German citizenship.
The RWTH Aachen followed Cologne in second place in the overall ranking, while the University of Mannheim, the LMU Munich and the University of Münster shared third place. The Horvárth evaluation thus traces where networks form early in the careers of top managers. It is astonishing that a good third of all German board members studied at the same ten universities.
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