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Business Informatics, Department

Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät

Universität Bayreuth

Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Universitätsstraße 30
D-95447 Bayreuth
https://www.uni-bayreuth.de
Uni Bayreuth
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

170

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

10

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

11/16 points

International orientation

Outgoing students

no data

Job market- and career-orientation

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

10.0%

Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's

20.0%

Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment

no data

Master theses in cooperation with work environment

no data

Research

Publications per professor

no data

Doctorates per professor

0.2

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

Labs and Spaces

Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

16

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support

Support in studies

Digital learning

Practical orientation in teaching

Courses offered

Study organisation

Transition to Master's studies

Research orientation

Support for stays abroad

Overall study situation

Return rate of the questionnaires

no data

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

Exercises and tutorials are often in small groups. Guided mentoring programme makes it easier for new students to start their studies. Practice-oriented teaching as well as application- and future-oriented research through collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT). Skills in different subject areas through various professorships in Business Information Systems with different topics (including Process Management, Strategic IT Management, Digital Society or Digital Sustainability Management).

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

Exercises and tutorials are often in small groups. Guided mentoring programme makes it easier for new students to start their studies. Practice-oriented teaching as well as application- and future-oriented research through collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT). Skills in different subject areas through various professorships in Business Information Systems with different topics (including Process Management, Strategic IT Management, Digital Society or Digital Sustainability Management).

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Indiana University: Kelley School of Business; USA; Weber State University, USA; Peking University, China; University of Warwick, UK; BI School of Business, Norwegen; Uni Rey Juan Madrid, Spanien; Beijing Institute of Tech., China; Warsaw School of Economics, Polen

Special features regarding the equipment

Campus-wide WiFi, freely accessible printers and scanners as well as modern technical and audiovisual equipment in the lecture halls and seminar rooms. Computer support for students' personal PCs. Free software: including MS Office 365 ProPlus, Sophos Endpoint Security. Free licences: including Maple 2022 for students, Origin 2022 Home Use or SPSS Statistics 29. Opportunity to take online courses via vhb, edX and Coursera. Campus management systems: Campus Online, CMLife or Panopto (hybrid teaching). Linux cluster for high-performance computing (data science).

Special features regarding research activities

Research collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT) in digital research areas such as digital society, artificial intelligence, blockchain and digital sustainability management. Selected research projects: "PlasIs" - Development of a security management platform for IoT. "EvalDiGE" – Fundamentals for digitalisation of German health authorities. Applied research through digital innovation workshop, blockchain lab, IoT lab and AI lab.

Other special features

Own specialisation option in the field of Digital Sustainability Management and possible additional studies in Entrepreneurship & Innovation or Sustainability.

Further information on research activities

Information on access restrictions

Website of the Student Council

online-application

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(P) = Professors' judgements

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Euro

Thousand Euro

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