Commercial / Business Law, Department
Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Rechtswissenschaften
Technische Hochschule Köln
Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Rechtswissenschaften
Schmalenbach Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Claudiusstraße 1
D-50678 Köln
Telephone: +49 221 8275-3439
https://www.th-koeln.de
TH Köln
Department on the internet
Schmalenbach Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Claudiusstraße 1
D-50678 Köln
Telephone: +49 221 8275-3439
https://www.th-koeln.de
TH Köln
Department on the internet
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Basic information
- Total number of students at the department
500
- Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)
150
International orientation
- Outgoing students
3.0%
Job market- and career-orientation
- Percentage of teaching by practitioners
15.0%
- Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's
20.0%
- Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment
21.0%
- Master theses in cooperation with work environment
36.4%
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
- Rooms
- Library
- Overall study situation
- Return rate of the questionnaires
59
Further information provided by the department
Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme
Project- and problem-based teaching, partly in interdisciplinary groups, solid guidance thanks to small groups/seminar-style instruction. Institutionalised partnerships with potential employers
Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes
Professors with scientific credentials; Strong focus on imparting specialist theory and research methods. Optimal student-instructor ratio; Integration of state-of-the-art AI-technology tools for practice-oriented career preparation. Institutionalised partnerships with potential employers, structured in part as a degree programme with vocational and academic elements.
Special features regarding the international orientation
Considerable range of subject-specific foreign language courses (English contracts; comparative law). Promotion of the exchange with partner universities; Mutual guest lectures.
Exchange universities for stay abroads
Boston University; Université Sorbonne Paris; Australien/Neuseeland
Special features regarding the equipment
Subject-specific databases (Juris; Beck online), state-of-the-art lecture hall equipment (whiteboard, online/hybrid teaching)
Special features regarding research activities
Designated own research focuses as a university location for tax law in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the Cologne Research Centre for Media Law and many more. Participation in inter-university excellence clusters
Other special features
Largest business law faculty of all German HAWs. "Sustainable University” label (according to own university development plan 2030)
Further information on research activities
Information on access restrictions
Website of the Student Council
online-application
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Last Update 2026: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education