Regional educational contract; ambitious opportunities for development both as regards subject and person; high quality/high demands placed on teaching; Strong research focus; subject diversity; extensive opportunities for specialisation, own initiative; Interdisciplinary linking; regional and national contact with practice; Different examination phases to rectify the course of study and to make it more flexible; Key Qualifications; ability for life-long learning and teamwork.

Integration of different teaching methods and educational systems; Improvement of job opportunities; Options for double degrees; Quality assurance through appropriate selection of partnerships; Enabling diversity; Promotion of young personalities – through challenges that arise due to the exchange; Promotion of cultural exchange; International networking already at the student level; Faculty's own International Office; Comprehensive counselling, also on financial aspects of studying abroad; Motivation transfer to First Generation students.

Université Paris-Sorbonne, Frankreich; University of Padova, Italien; University of New Mexico, USA; Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong; University of the Sunshine Coast, Australien; Colorado State University - Pueblo, USA; University of California, Riverside, USA; Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Südkorea; University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Island; Sabanci University, Istanbul, Türkei.

E-campus (WiFi throughout the whole campus); Large number of PC rooms; Excellent library stock since the merger with the university library of the Essen University; Extensive free software for students; Low-cost SAP training.

Focus on academic publications; Innovative research fields (e.g. internal audit, traffic modelling, service operations, risk management); International focus; regional and national contact with practice.

Bundling of all university start-up activities in the IDE since 2015; Small Business Management courses since 1999 with four programmes ranging from 16 to 140 hours face-to-face (resulting in approx. 180 start-ups; 0% insolvency rate); Innovation Factory since 2007 with business design-oriented approach in thematically different innovation workshops; Start-up consultations and coordination of the university's EXIST applications with 75% success rate in 2016; Semester-based meetings of internal and external start-up experts over curry sausage and beer; Set-up of a Future Champions Start-Up Lab Rhine-Ruhr together with the University of Cologne.