Field guide

MSc Strategy & Consulting — programmes in Europe

The pre-consulting master's tradition in Europe — with tuition, rankings, and admission facts on the same page.

PROGRAMMES
42
Launchable master's
UNIVERSITIES
33
AVG DURATION
18 mo
TUITION (NON-EU)
€3,000 – €114,942
/ yr, range

About MSc Strategy

European Master's in Strategy and Consulting are a small but concentrated family — designed as an on-ramp into strategy consulting, corporate strategy or business development. The best-known are at HEC (Master in Strategic Management), ESSEC, ESCP, Bocconi, Esade and Rotterdam School of Management. Typical length is one year, taught in English, with heavy case-method content and structured recruiter pipelines into MBB, Big Four Strategy and boutique consultancies. Tuition sits in the €20k–€40k range at the top programmes. Admissions are competitive and typically require a strong bachelor's, GMAT or GRE, and demonstrated analytical fluency. The FT Masters in Management ranking and QS Business Master's rankings are the useful references.

Top schools by rank

Ranked using FT / QS / THE where available; fallback to QS, THE and ARWU.

Programmes by school

Up to three launchable programmes per top school — click through for admission facts and tuition.

Where in Europe

Top countries by programme count in this field.

Germany
14 programmes
Netherlands
10 programmes
France
9 programmes
Norway
2 programmes
Italy
2 programmes

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