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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

1,940

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

110

Cooperative Education

Students in cooperative education

500

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

14/16 points

International orientation

Outgoing students

8.0%

Job market- and career-orientation

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

17.0%

Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's

21.0%

Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment

18.3%

Master theses in cooperation with work environment

24.4%

Research

Cooperative doctoral degrees (in three years)

8

Third party funds per professor

14,551 €

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Career and practical orientation
Learning and working spaces
Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Exam organisation
Digital learning
Support for stays abroad
Rooms
Library
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

108

Students' assessments on cooperate education courses

Dual studying
Learning and working spaces
Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Digital learning
Exam organisation
Support for stays abroad

Not specified
Rooms
Library
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

90

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support

Not specified
Support in studies

Not specified
Digital learning

Not specified
Practical orientation in teaching

Not specified
Courses offered

Not specified
Study organisation

Not specified
Transition to Master's studies

Not specified
Research orientation

Not specified
Support for stays abroad

Not specified
Overall study situation

Not specified
Return rate of the questionnaires

no data

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

"Activating teaching" as a programme (e.g. study-team coaching, projects, case studies; high proportion of group work); Duplicate lectures (flexible time management, appropriate group sizes, partly in German and English); Teaching has a high degree of practical relevance; range of e-learning courses; Promotion of key skills in small groups (for example, presentation techniques, leadership skills, entrepreneurship); Integration of lectures by practitioners/excursions; Special advisory services regarding stays abroad; company projects; Seminars on learning techniques for new students; Practical phases or practice semesters.

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

Small groups, often project-based teaching, substantive inputs in smaller sprints; High practical relevance through company projects, case studies and collaborations with business, international focus, e.g. through English-language modules and exchange programmes. Innovative teaching formats such as lecture series on current business topics and career days.

Special features regarding the international orientation

The MSB is an AACSB and EFMD member, several degree courses are internationally accredited (EFMD programme accreditation). Bachelor's degree courses have a high percentage of courses taught in English, while some Master's degree courses can be studied entirely in English. Around 60 international partner universities for student exchange (often double degrees) and international teacher mobility. The MSB runs its own Office for International Studies (OfIS), which, together with buddy programmes, offers individual support to international students.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Ecole de Management de Normandie, Frankreich; University of Agder, Norwegen; Universidad de Granada, Spanien; Universidade do Porto, Portugal; Universitá di Pisa, Italien; Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, Südafrika; Universidad de La Sabana, Bogotá, Kolumbien; ESAN, Lima, Peru; Xihua University, Chengdu, China, Pusan National University, Südkorea.

Special features regarding the equipment

All rooms with presentation and audio technology (SMART Boards, projectors, in some cases dual projection); Three rooms with fixed recording technology, co-creation lab (Design Thinking room); Digi-Lab (room for digital technologies, including digital whiteboards); Business informatics-server cluster (operation of virtual machines); GPGPU server (distributed / parallel computing, big data, business intelligence); Various special software and hardware for use in courses; Thomson Reuters Eikon database (finance/accounting); beck-online database (tax, auditing); TOPSIM cloud (business simulation games).

Special features regarding research activities

The focus of business research is on the "digital transformation of companies and organisations" and "science to business marketing". These topics are supported by research infrastructure (IPD: Institute of Process Management and Digital Transformation, S2B: Science to Business Marketing Research Centre). Outside the focus areas, professors conduct research within the content spectrum of their professorship. Research is systematically funded (including funding for cooperative doctoral students, facilitating teaching, budget for academic assistants).

Other special features

Re-Audit Diversity 2023; University Sustainability Day, offering of summer schools in West Virginia, USA.

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

Information on access restrictions

Website of the Student Council

online-application

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Acronyms

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(F) = Facts

(P) = Professors' judgements

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Last Update 2026: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education