Course recognition
General information
The recognition of courses taken abroad is centrally organized at the TUM School of Management. Each study program has different options for recognition of international modules. Please have a look at the document for your study program. You find these documents under “Credit Transfer” in the download section. Please check if the course you wish to attend at a university abroad is listed in the database for transfer of credits. database for transfer of credits.
IMPORTANT: In case that our department needs to check if a new course is elligible for recognition, please fill the the form Confirmation of Course Equivalence of a an International Module BEFORE contacting the responsible person.
In particular, we need the following information:
- Course content, learning objectives, and course material (e.g. textbooks)
- Course work load / credits (hours per week, how many weeks?)
- Information on the course structure
PLEASE NOTE: The attended course has
- to be largely equivalent in the course content and learning objectives
- to comprise at least the same workload (credits, hours)
as the course that should be recognized.
For finance courses that do not directly match the topics covered in our courses you can apply for (Advanced) Topics Finance & Accounting.
The list below shows who is responsible for the different courses that our department offers.
Course name | ETCS | Level | Contact | |
| Asset Management | 6 | Master | Minghui Chen | |
| Advanced Seminar in Finance & Accounting: Asset Management | 6 | Master | Wangzhen Xia | |
| Advanced Seminar in Finance & Accounting: Case in Finance | 6 | Master | Tim Bedenbecker | |
| Advanced Seminar in Finance & Accounting: Empirical Asset Pricing | 6 | Master | Minghui Chen | |
| Derivatives | 6 | Master | Wangzhen Xia | |
| International Capital Markets and Investment Practice | 3 | Master | Wangzhen Xia | |
| Banking and Risk Management | 3 | Master | Aida Cehajic | |
| Corporate Finance | 6 | Bachelor | Aida Cehajic | |
| Seminar in Finance & Accounting: Case in Finance | 6 | Bachelor | Tim Bedenbecker | |
| Investitions- und Finanzmanagement* | 6 | Bachelor | Tim Bedenbecker | |
| Grundlagen Betriebswirtschaftslehre (Nebenfach) | 3 | Bachelor | Stefan Baumann | |
*only German-language courses can be recognised as equivalent. Non-German courses can be recognized as equivalent to Investment and Financial Management by the Chair of Entrepreneurial Finance, see here.