At no other German faculty as at the WiSo Faculty of the University of Cologne studied so much of currently active DAX30 minds. This is evident from the on research and evaluation of the education and training facilities of all DAX 30 boards * . University of Cologne and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ( KIT) currently share first place, considering which German university has trained most of the DAX 30 boards .
The DAX (an abbreviation for German stock index) is the most important German stock index .
It reflects the performance of the 30 largest and most actively traded companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in the Prime Standard.

The WiSo Faculty is pleased to announce, that there is currently no other German Faculty who educated so many DAX 30 directors as the WiSo Faculty of the University of Cologne!

Elite researcher Michael Hartmann’s analysis, which was published by SPIEGEL ONLINE, shows that the big majority of current business elite has finished its degree at one of German’s public universities. In the ranking of the Top-Five-Universities from this manager inquiry the University of Cologne ranks second place together with RWTH Aachen.

* Reference: published Internet lists of board members of DAX 30 companies , CVs of the directors in Wikipedia and on Finance-Magazin.de. Evaluation period: Jan 2015