Begin with the need.
We start with people’s backgrounds, ambitions and challenges—whether choosing a degree, developing their work or pursuing research.
Why IBR?
Investing in people.
Putting learning to work.
For more than 25 years, the IBR Institute of International Business Relations has been rethinking how higher education, professional practice, and international cooperation can work together.
IBR’s role is to connect people, institutions, and ideas across borders—creating educational pathways and academic cooperation.
How we work with universities ↓
Kairos Affiliate Professor
Bring academic quality.
We work with university partners to make rigorous, relevant education accessible across borders.
Walk alongside people.
From guidance on study choices to personal coaching and research mentoring, we help people take their next step and put learning into practice.
Learning that makes a difference
What it means
to our graduates.
In the German Global MBA, participants work on what they want to achieve in their own organisations—whether starting a business, improving how it operates or developing new opportunities.
Professors coach and mentor them throughout—asking questions, offering expertise and helping them turn learning into action.
Here, graduates describe what that experience has meant for their work, their businesses and their own development.
Explore the German Global MBA ↗German Global MBA graduates · Graduation celebrations in Africa, 2026 · 2:26
Working with universities
Established relationships.
Active collaboration.
IBR initiates and develops international study pathways. Our established university network, particularly in India, brings trusted contacts and local coordination—giving partners a head start in turning shared interests into active collaboration.
01 / Study mobility
Continue in Germany.
Return with more.
IBR conceived the SIMATS–Albstadt-Sigmaringen mobility pathway and developed its legal framework. Eligible students can work towards a German bachelor’s degree and return to complete their degree in India, subject to university requirements.
SIMATS · Albstadt-Sigmaringen University
Explore the study-mobility pathway ↗02 / Double degree
Two countries.
Two degrees.
IBR brought Škoda Auto University and Albstadt-Sigmaringen University together and facilitated their double-degree pathway. Students study in the Czech Republic and Germany, earning bachelor’s degrees from both universities on successful completion.
Explore the double degree ↗03 / Master’s pathways
From bachelor’s studies
to a German master’s.
IBR already supports graduates of Indian partner universities in progressing to consecutive master’s studies in Germany. Formal university agreements can strengthen this existing activity into a coordinated pathway for future graduates.
Explore master’s study opportunities ↗Universities determine admission, credit recognition and degree requirements. Each partnership has its own agreed scope.
Discuss university cooperation ↗
Connections that grow beyond graduation
From an MBA experience
to new opportunities in India.
MBA graduate Thamarai Pandian, founder of the Academy of German Business Management (AGBM) in Chennai, has helped build IBR’s network of eleven partner universities and higher education institutions in India. AGBM is IBR’s representative office in India. Its local guidance and longstanding university relationships help put these study pathways into practice.
Thamarai Pandian · MBA graduate, 2003 · AGBM, Chennai
Meet our partner institutions in India ↓Our international
academic network.
Our university and institutional partners contribute in different ways to applied learning, international cooperation and study opportunities across borders.
Europe & United States
Academic cooperation encompassing the German Global MBA, Kairos studies and selected European study pathways.
Albstadt-Sigmaringen University · Germany
Degree-awarding university for the German Global MBA and a partner in study mobility with SIMATS and the Czech–German double-degree pathway.
Škoda Auto University · Czech Republic
Cooperation on applied undergraduate study opportunities, including the double-degree pathway with Albstadt-Sigmaringen University.
John von Neumann University · Hungary
An agreement supporting the development of international study pathways.
Kairos University · United States
IBR provides support and learning resources for Kairos students as a partner for contextualization.
India
Eleven partner universities and higher education institutions, connected through our established relationships and local presence in Chennai.
Our 11 partner institutions in India
- AMET University
- Crescent Institute of Science and Technology
- Joy University
- King’s Engineering College
- Noorul Islam University (NICHE)
- Sathyabama University
- SIMATS (Saveetha University)
- Sri Shanmuga College of Engineering & Technology
- SRM University
- Takshashila University
- VELS Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies (VISTAS)
Our earlier collaboration with Trinity International University (2020–2026) is documented in our history of university cooperation. Each relationship has its own scope. Admission decisions, academic regulations and degree awarding remain with the respective universities.
Experience built over time
Taking German work-integrated education
into the world.
Our experience of university internationalisation developed through successive partnerships with Kassel International Management School, Steinbeis University Berlin and Albstadt-Sigmaringen University.
Cooperation with Trinity International University extended our relationships into the United States. Our continuing collaboration with Kairos University takes this work into doctoral research grounded in professional practice.
These relationships have shaped the experience we bring to university cooperation today.
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What could we
make possible together?
Explore the next step in your education, or talk with us about developing international university cooperation.