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Fakultät Wirtschaft und Recht

Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen (HfWU)

Fakultät Wirtschaft und Recht
Parkstraße 4
D-73312 Geislingen an der Steige
Telephone: +49 7331 22-488
https://www.hfwu.de

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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

470

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

40

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

19.4%

Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's

38.9%

Job market- and career-orientation

Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment

29.9%

Master theses in cooperation with work environment

3.9%

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

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Support in studies
Courses offered
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Digital teaching elements
Introduction to scientific work
Offers for career orientation
Support during practical semester
Practical orientation in teaching
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Return rate of the questionnaires

40

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching

Regular structured revision of the curricular content to ensure the professional orientation of the course content, introductory week before the start of the course with Moot Court, use of mentors, etc. tutors, key qualifications in SPO, high proportion of activating teaching forms, 3 occupational-oriented in-depth programmes, talent promotion, guest lectures by practitioners, preliminary and follow-up seminar for the internship semester, visits to the practice partners on site and evaluation of the PS, Wijus e.V. as a student initiative, to strengthen the students' own initiative and self-management.

Special features regarding the international orientation

Double degree, specialisation "International Management" in English; Free foreign language courses during the semester; Tandem programme "Partner with a Foreign Student"; "Intercultural competence" modules; International grants; Visiting Professorship programme; Workshops Academic Writing – Advanced; Programme "English for Teaching" in Maryland; Modules in International Business Law; Excursions abroad, mobility windows for studying abroad. Erasmus+ BIP: In cooperation with Griffith College, Dublin, Ireland and Universidad de Oviedo, Spain: "Risk Management in Companies"

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Institute of Blanchardstown, Dublin, Irland; Fachhochschule Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt, Österreich; Babes-Bolyai Universität, Cluj, Rumänien; Yeditepe University, Türkei; Southern Institute of Technology, Invercargill, Neuseeland; Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spanien; Beijing Foreign Studies Universities, Peking, China; Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara, Mexiko; Incheon National University, Incheon, Korea; California State University Monterey Bay, Monterey Bay, USA.

Special features regarding the equipment

State-of-the-art IT equipment with access to application software. Access via WiFi for students. Integration of Corporate Software such as SAP, Argus, DATEV and simulation games such as General Management, Easy Management. Perfectly stocked library with extensive range of electronic journals, e-books and online databases (e.g. Beck online, Juristendatenbank, WiSo or Bloomberg). Application programmes (e.g. DATEV, WinSolvenz, etc.), notebook pool with special programmes to borrow (e.g. SPSS), designated computer work areas, campus management system HfWU neo, video conferencing system.

Special features regarding research activities

Institute of Corporate Governance, of which a staff member of the degree course is a member, "Digitalisation in Insolvency and Restructuring Management" – empirical survey and evaluation

Support for founders

"G-Inno" as its own innovation and start-up centre, professorship "Entrepreneurship", Contact-AS start-up initiative (advice, coaching, information, qualification), modules for business start-up and succession, business plan, lectures and workshops, module "Startup Lessons" to acquire entrepreneurial skills. Series of events "Students meet start-ups". Forum for Commercial Law and Forum for Career Entry (WiJuS e.V.), Future forum, in the past 10 years there have been around 210 start-ups.

Other special features

Mission: Education for responsibility (see website). “Geislinger model" degree course with real academic freedom of choice to design an interdisciplinary Bachelor's degree with a broad, business-oriented foundation and the freedom to choose modules from over 20 complete specialisation programmes for in-depth studies.

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Last Update 2023: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education
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